WV. Women military veterans
Found in 138 Collections and/or Records:
Theo Roberts Fore Creadick Collection
The collection includes various military papers, 1944-1950; 1 photograph of Creadick in uniform, undated; a book showing activities at "The Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School (WR), Northampton, Mass. and The Naval Training School (Communications-W), South Hadley, Mass," undated.
Charlesanna L. Fox Collection
The collection includes correspondence, photographs, and biographical materials documenting her experience as a camp librarian at Camp Lejeune, NC, and at Pear Harbor, HI; along with various printed materials, including newspaper clippings and souvenirs, and an oral history transcript, 5 March 1999.
Wendy P. Gellert Collection
Ellen Harris Huckabee Gobbell Collection
The collection includes various military papers from Gobbell's WAVES service, 1942-1949; a photograph of Gobbell in uniform, circa 1947; various newspaper clippings, including her obituary, 1995 and undated.
Margaret Griffin Papers
This collection includes the 1949 United States Navy publication United States Submarine Losses; the 1947 book While So Serving; a December 1944 copy of The American; a 17 May;1945 Navy Department press release The United States Franklin Comes Home; copies of The Service Book of Scripture and Prayer and A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors; and The New Testament; and a Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ribbon pin.
Julia Hill Gunn Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 April 1999; various letters of correspondence, October 1945-October 1947; various photographs of Gunn's Navy WAVES service, circa 1945.
Blanche Holt Gwyn Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 4 February 1999; a photograph of Gwyn in WAVES uniform, 1943; blue cord uniform jacket and matching skirt, circa 1950s; Navy uniform jacket and skirt, circa 1950s; black tie; a hat.
Blanche Woolard Haggard Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 February 1999; various photographs of Haggard's service with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), 1943-1944; various military publications, including materials on the ship USS Tulagi, 1942-1943; various textiles; 10 patches and 2 cap devices.
Frances Hunt Hall Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 April 1999; various photographs of Hall's WAVES service, undated; a newspaper clipping featuring Hall's overseas service, April 1946.
Robin D. Hamilton Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 April 2016; a Retirement Ceremony program, 9 April 2022.
Nellie May Hammond Diary
The collection includes a "My Life in the Service" Diary.
Myrtle Otto Hanke Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 February 2000; various correspondence, 1941-1945; various newspaper clippings, 1942-1946; photographs and 16 artist color renderings of Coolangatta, Queensland/Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.
Mary Ann Henning Moore Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 July 1999; various Navy military papers, 1944-1946; a portrait photograph of Moore in Navy WAVES uniform, circa 1945; a transcription from "Virginia Society Dames in the Military," 1991.
Laura Henry Scrapbook
The Laura Henry Scrapbook has one scrapbook and three separate pages of Mount Holyoke Songs. The scrapbook has a wooden cover with images of a United States navy ship on it. It has approximately 58 pages and contains newspaper clippings, cards, menus from military base holiday lunches, and Laura Henry's official military identification cards.
Elizabeth C. Hickcox Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 April 1999; various photographs of Hickcox’s Navy WAVES service, circa 1944; various postcards with pictures of U.S. Naval Training School buildings, undated.
Jean Wrenn Higgins Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 January 1999.
Frances M. Hobbins Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 March 1999; various photographs of Hobbins WAVES service and with Dorion Tam, a man she "Freed to Fight" in Hawaii, 1945-1997.
Mary Laura Horner Collection
Mary Laura Horner served in the U.S. Navy WAVES during World War II. Horner attended boot camp at the U.S. Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York. The collection includes her recruitment papers and documents of religious services held at the Training School.
Agnes "Scottie" Hudson Collection
This collection contains an interview, textiles, and photographs.
Patsy James Letter
The collection includes a June 1944 letter addressed to James' mother in Valley Park, Missouri. James writes about her experiences taking the train and the bus to get to the base at Algiers.
Paula J. Johnson Collection
The collection includes 3 photograph copies of Johnson in uniform during her training in Washington, D.C., circa 1952; 3 photograph copies of Johnson's husband, Gene, circa 1953; an 8 June 2001 oral history transcript.
Olene Brumbles Jones Collection
The collection includes a copy of Navy discharge papers, 1945; photographs of Olene in casual clothes and uniform, circa 1943-45.
Marian "Mac" McBurney Kilgore Photograph Album
This photograph album entitled "Navy Days at Anacostia" contains photographs documenting Kilgore's service in the WAVES.
Shelley Whitzke Kirk Collection
Shelley Witzke Kirk (b. 1963), of Bethesda, Maryland, served in the United States Navy from 1981-2005.
The collection includes a 2016 February oral history transcript.
Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick Collection
Winifred Taylor Kuehn Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; "As You Were" magazine, 1994; Navy WAVES book by Elizabeth Allen Butler, 1988; Naval Reserve Midshipman's school song sheet copy; WAVES Sing-A-Long booklet from 50th Anniversary Celebration, circa 1992; photographs of Kuehn in WAVES uniform and gathering with local WAVES group, circa 1944.
Therese M. Lambert Collection
Therese Lambert served in the United Women Army Corps from 1950 until 1953 in Germany and the United States. She later enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve.
The collection includes a 2009 July 22 oral history transcript and several scanned photographs.
Alice Doretta Lentz Letters
This collection consists of twenty-two personal letters written by Lentz to her family that describe her life as a nurse, which included receiving vaccinations and watching as German prisoners of war arrived at her base. The letters also discuss news regarding her friends and her patients.
Gayle Offenbacher Lewis Collection
Gail Offenbacher Lewis (b. 1947), of Jacksonville, Oregon, served as an officer in the the United States Navy Nurse Corps and Navy Reserve from 1966 to 1994. Her service spanned the periods of The Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
The collection includes a 2008 December 22 oral history transcript and a CD with digitized photographs of Lewis during service with the Navy from 1968 to 1991.
Shirley Ann Thacker Lewis Collection
Shirley Ann Thacker Lewis (b. 1938) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1961 to 1965.
This collection includes 29 February 2008 oral history transcript; Official Navy paperwork.
Rebecca Ann Lloyd Collection
April 2006 oral history transcript; Buttons; Cap devices (2); Dog tags; Japanese pin and spoon; Nametags; National Defense medal and ribbon; Pin-on ranks: first lieutenant; major; lieutenant colonel; Plaques (oversize Box 3);Wooden box with United States Navy seal and dates of service engraved; and 1650 slides of Japan, Taipei, Thailand, and the Philippines; taken 1963-1964.
Henrietta Clodfelter Lucke Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 May 1999; a New York Times article titled, "New Army Nurses Depart for Camp"; various photographs of Lucke during and after serving with the Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines and Tokyo, 1945-1946.
Nell Smith Lutz Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 March 2003; various photographs of Lutz's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency (WAVES) Navy, 1943-1945; personal correspondence during her WAVES service, 1943-1944, along with Navy papers and newspaper clippings, 1943-2003; DVD video interview by Bob Gaines "The Vanishing Generation."
Joycestane Brant Malcolm Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; a photograph of Malcolm in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) uniform, circa 1954.
Rose Elaine Male Collection
The collection includes 2 folders of correspondence from Rose Male to her family in Schenectady, New York, December 1944-February 1946.
Ruth Mildred Marshburn Collection
The collection includes a scrapbook, 1944-1946, 1958; Insignia Patches, circa 1944-1946; WAVES 25th National Convention Charm, 1967.
Nicolette Petrone Martinez Collection
The collection includes a 6 March 2002 oral history transcript; an official photograph of Martinez in Navy summer white uniform, circa 1992; a photograph of Martinez posing outside a building, circa 1992; photograph of her posing with Marine Corporal, circa 1994; personal correspondence to mother, circa 1992; a copy of Navy leave and earnings statements, 1992; a Certificate for Crossing Equator located in WVPH Oversize Box 2, circa 1992.
Virginia Gilbert Mattson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 January 1999; 2 Navy WAVES publications, 1946; a photograph of Mattson in uniform, circa 1941-1945; a victory medal; an American Campaign medal.
Jill Corbusier Mayer Oral History
Jill Corbusier Mayer (b. 1945), of Yonkers, New York, served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1966 to 1976, and the United States Navy Reserve from 1976 to 1978.
The collection includes a 2013 November 3 oral history transcript.
Rosetta McMahon Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 2007; scan of portrait photograph of McMahon in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) uniform, circa 1945.
Janet Muriel Mead Collection
The collection contains letters written by Mead to her parents throughout her military career, as well as during the mid-1950s. Photographs in the collection include images of Meade, her friends in the WAVES and U.S. Navy, and Naval Air Station Seattle.
Martha Redding Mendenhall Collection
The collection includes an Air Navigation student workbook, December 1945; a training syllabus for Air Navigation course, December 1945; various photographs during and after Mendenhall's WAVES service, 1943-1991; a Flying Trainer handbook, May 1943; various procedure papers, undated; an oral history transcript, including audio cassette tape, 28 May 1999.
Irene A. Gepfert Mertz Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 May 2011 oral history transcript; 1 box, 2 scrapbooks.