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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 137 Collections and/or Records:

Helen Allegrone Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0062
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 April 1999; various photographs of Allegrone's Navy WAVES service, 1943-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Pauline Rogstad Allison Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0357
Content Description

This collection includes 1 August 2006 oral history transcript; portrait photograph of Pauline Allison in Navy Nurse Corps blue outdoor uniform and service cap, circa 1943; headshot of Pauline with her uniform; and photograph of Pauline while in the Navy Nurse Corps white outdoor service uniform and matching service cap, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1944, 2006

Ann Holder Andavall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0444
Abstract

Ann Holder Andavall (b. 1921), of Ashland, Oregon, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) as an aerial gunnery instructor during World War II.

The collection includes a 2008 December oral history transcript, 2 photographs, and a United States Pensacola Naval Station Specialist School Diploma.

Dates: circa 1944 to 1945; 2008 December

Laura G. Anderton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0026
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 January 1999; various photographs of Anderton's WAVES service, 1943-1946; correspondence with her mother, 14 August and 13 September 1945.

Dates: circa 1942 - 1999

Frances Barringer Bailey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0069
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 April 1999; various photographs of Bailey's time with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), 1943-1946; a booklet from the Naval Reserve Midshipman's School, 1943; various military papers; an officer hat insignia; Navy discharge pin.

Dates: 1943-1999

Jaenn Coz Bailey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0141
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 January 2000; Navy military papers, 1944-1946; various correspondence, 1945-1946; various photographs of Bailey's Navy WAVES service, 1943-1946; various newspaper clippings, 1943-1946; personal memoirs of Bailey's WAVES service, undated.

Dates: circa 1944-2000

Barbara Bagby Battenfeld Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0499
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 September 2010.

Dates: 2010 September 22

Virginia Gardner Becker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0053
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 March 1999; various military papers from Becker's Navy WAVES service, 1943-1944; Navy WAVES publications, 1943-1944; “Sounding Off” newsletter, 29 June-27 July 1943; photographs of Becker in uniform, 1943-1945; WAVES black leather shoulder bag; WAVES wool havelock.

Dates: 1943-1999

Mary Kate Bonds Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0415
Content Description

Mary Kate Bonds (1920-2012) of Chickamauga, Georgia, served in the United States Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service [WAVES], United States Naval Reserve, and the United States Navy. Bonds served as a military officer from 1942 till 1971. Her career spanned World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

This collection includes 11 June 2008 oral history transcript, copies of photographs, letter.

Dates: 2008 June 11

Mildred Ikard "Billie" Bourgeois Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0486
Content Description

The collection includes a portrait photograph of Bourgeois in uniform, circa 1944-1946; an oral history transcript, 12 May 2010.

Dates: circa 1944-1946

Deborah Elizabeth Branson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0617
Scope and Contents

The Deborah Elizabeth Branson Papers date from 1970-2016, with the bulk from 1990-1993. The majority of items in the collection are related to issues about concerning the 1991 Tailhook sexual assault scandal, sexual harassment in the military, and women's positions in the military. The collection includes, transcripts, official military reports, training guides, military magazines, military advertisements, military comics, newspaper articles, envelope hat, and VHS videotapes.

Dates: 1970-2016

Irma Jean Brooks Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0347
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 April 2006 oral history transcript; photograph of Irma at retirement ceremony with presentation by RADM Emmett Tidd; Textile Box contains white evening dress uniform jacket and skirt circa 1952-1973; Artifact box contains Recruitment command pins; 2 bags of naval rank pins; name tags.

Dates: 1952-1973, 2006

Heather Johnson Brott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0495
Content Description

Heather Johnson Brott (b. 1967), of Enumclaw, Washington, served in the United States Navy from 1986-1987, the United States Navy Reserve from 1987-1992 and the United States Army 1996-2008.

This collection includes August 2010 oral history transcript; scanned photographs.

Dates: 2010 August 01

Jerry Rita Jolliff Brunton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0588
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 July 2015; documents related to Women Veterans of Coastal North Carolina, undated; postcards and calendars related to the Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C., undated; a document reflecting on the North Carolina Veterans Day Parade in Morehead City, written by Brunton, November 2011; a WAVES jacket, t-shirt, sweatshirt, and polo shirt; various books related to WAVES.

Dates: 1950-2015

Theresa A. Burnett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0364
Content Description This collection includes a letter to Burnett from Lucile Thompson of the Office of Naval Officer Procurement who inquired how Burnett was doing at the Great Lakes Naval Center for her basic training. Another letter; dated 19 March 1949, was written by Burnett to her family and it describes basic training and her free time off base in Waukegan, Illinois. The collection also includes a navy blue jacket and skirt, a navy blue garrison cap, a seersucker garrison cap, and a shoulder navy ranking...
Dates: 1949

Betty Hyatt Caccavale Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0095
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 June 1999; photographs of Betty on her wedding day, 1945; various photocopies of newspaper clippings, 1943-1994; various military papers, undated.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Mary F. Cannon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0411
Content Description

Mary F. Cannon (1921-2012) of Chicago, Illinois, was stationed in Korea while a member of the Army Nurse Corps from 1951 to 1953 and in Vietnam during her service with the Navy Nurse Corps from 1958 to 1974.

This collection includes April 2008 oral history interview transcript available for use onsite in the archives, copies of photographs.

Dates: 2008 April 24

Elizabeth Ann Carlin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0559
Content Description

This collection includes February 2014 oral history transcript; a 2004 photograph from basic training; a Delayed Entry Program identification card; a Carrier Air Wing Eleven Summer 2007 Combat Cruise patch; a 2007 WestPac (Western Pacific) Global War on Retention CVW11 (Carrier Air Wing Eleven) United StatesS. Nimitz "joke" patch; a circa 2007 Harvey's Pocket Guides Presents: Sasebo,Japan port call guide; and an emergency assistance translation card.

Dates: circa 2004-2014

Laverne Carter Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0501
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 October 2010.

Dates: 2010 October 18

Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0574
Abstract

Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion (b. 1953) served in the United States Navy WAVES, or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, from 1976 to 1980 .

Dates: 1976-1980

Patricia L. Childers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0256
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 August 2002; various papers from Armed Forces office, circa 1972; portrait photograph of Childers, circa 1996; Oversized box 2 contains photograph of Naval Training Center, Orlando, FL, 1972.

Dates: circa 1972-2002

Marie Cody Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0157
Content Description

Correspondence from Donald M. Downey to Cody, 1945-1946; Downey's other correspondence, 1937-1946, 1956-1959 and undated; Miscellaneous newsletter and newspaper clippings, circa 1940s.

Dates: 1937-1959

Julia "Judy" Houk Cooley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0452
Content Description

The collection includes digitized photographs of Cooley in uniform, circa 1944-1947; Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) garrison cap insignia and collar insignia; a 12 March 2009 oral history transcript.

Dates: circa 1944-1947

Anna Jean Coomes Woods Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0019
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 January 1999; 4 photographs of Woods during her service, circa 1944; a Navy blue uniform with hat and tie; a Navy blue overcoat; a seersucker summer uniform with hat.

Dates: circa 1946

Patricia Keegan Delaney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0209
Content Description 1 May 2001 oral hIstory transcript; Navy WAVES Newsletter "Sounding Off" dated June 22, 1943; photocopy of Booklet "How to serve your county in the WAVES of SPARS" (not dated) Patricia is photographed in this publication; Marching to Victory Booklet of songs and hymns for enlisted Navy WAVES servicemembers; various newspaper clippings 1943-1945; photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt with Navy Captian during WAVES review,1942; photograph of Patricia in front of the Northampton Tavern while...
Dates: 1942-1945

Pamela Devine Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0453
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 March 2009.

Dates: 2009 March 11

Ellen Mercer Diming Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0229
Content Description

The collection includes a photograph of Diming in her WAVES overcoat and biographical information recorded during her oral history interview, handwritten.

Dates: circa 1944-1946

Gladys L. Dimmick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0055
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 March 1999; Navy WAVES uniform jacket and skirt; 3 Navy WAVES hats and a pair of gloves; a black leather WAVES shoulder bag; 3 medals for Dimmick’s service; 7 photographs of Dimmick’s service with the Navy WAVES and during retirement, 1943-1997.

Dates: 1943-1999

Rosemarie Dodd Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0020
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 January 1999; 2 photographs of Dodd and her regiment, 1944; magazine copy of All Hands publication, July 1972; newspaper clipping from High Point Enterprise publication, November 1998.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Bernadine "Bernie" Donato Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0594
Content Description

This collection includes October 2015 oral history transcript; copies of photographs and documents; flight jump suit uniform.

Dates: circa 1975-2015

Louise Nash Dorsett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0017
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 January 1999; a copy of document from Navy's Bureau of Ships, April 1946; various photographs of Dorsett's service with the Navy WAVES, 1943-1945; a Navy WAVES uniform.

Dates: circa 1943 - 1946

Jean Downer Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0386
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 February 2007.

Dates: 2007 February 21

Mary Gage Dunham Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0143
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 January 2000.

Dates: 2000 January 16

Marilyn Roberts (Bobbi) Earp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0174
Content Description

The collection includes a 2000 June oral history transcript; Newspaper article photocopy from Whiteville, NC, 1989; portrait photograph of Marilyn in her Navy WAVES uniform; photographs of Marilyn and her husband during their service, 1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1949

Jacqueline Marion Edmunds Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0541
Abstract

Jacqueline Marion Edmunds (b. 1951), of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy from 1979-2000.

The collection includes an oral history transcript and various photographs.

Dates: 1979-2000

Jane Heins Escher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0080
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 May 1999; various photographs of Escher’s WAVES service, 1951-1953; 9 photocopies of graduation ceremony scrapbook; a Naval Training Center publication, 1941.

Dates: circa 1941-1999

Andree Fifield Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0070
Content Description

The collection includes various military papers from Fifield’s WAVES service, 1943-1945; various photographs of her service and wedding, 1944-1945; an oral history transcript, 26 April 1999.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Lois Betlach Filewood Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0613
Scope and Contents

Uniforms, artifacts, books, publications, scrapbooks.

Dates: Other: 1943-1992

Carolyn Newby Finger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0057
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 March 1999; various photographs of Finger's Navy WAVES service, 1942-1944; a book, USS Tulagi (GVE-72), 1943-1946; cartoon print; various WAVES song sheets, undated; a company newsletter from Vick's Chemical Company, Vol. VI, No. 1, 1 July 1943; a cap device; 10 military patches; a plain gold ensign collar device; cap device on blue wool; a small plastic box containing label for Edward Legum Furniture Co.; a Navy wool cap.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1942-1999

Marion Fisher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0083
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 May 1999; various photographs of Fisher during her Army Medical Specialist Corps service, 1942-1944.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Mary Cooper Floyd Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0048
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 March 1999; newspaper article from the "610 Project: The Special Devices Association," circa 1946.

Dates: circa 1946-1999