WV. Women military veterans
Found in 108 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mary Ellen Mullan Collection
The collection includes two letter booklets written by Mullan while in basic training at Northampton, Massachusetts in September 1944.
Nan M. Nabors Letters
This collection includes Correspondence, 1944-1946. Though the majority of correspondence is personal in nature it presents insights into many different aspects of the military, including the urgent need for infantry, the relationship between officers and enlisted soldiers, life as a soldier, and Nabors's experiences as a female serving in the military.
Judith Bullock Nisbet Collection
Eleanor Neeva Northcott Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 April 1999; a poster with the phrase "Ah...At Last!", circa 1942-1945.
Ruth Kent Petker Collection
The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Petker in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES) uniform, circa 1943.
Lillian M. Pimlott Collection
Eleanor Rigney Collection
The collection includes The Havelock newsletters, photographs, military papers, biographical materials, Identification Tag, 1943; Good Conduct Medal,1946; Patches,1943-1946; Ribbons, 1943-1946; "Ruptured Duck" Discharge Pin, 1946.
Irja Miriam Ripatte Scrapbook
Scrapbook with Waves service photographs; newspaper clippings , circa 1942-1943; Headshot of Irja Miriam Ripatte wearing a WAVES service dress blue uniform and soft brimmed enlisted cap, not dated.
Patricia Ann Roney Collection
Patricia Ann Roney (1923-1994?), of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) from 1944-1946. Included in this collection are Roney's scrapbook and diary.
Eunice M. Rountree Photographs
The collection includes 2 photographs, circa 1942-1945.
Viola Brown Sanders Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 June 2005; various photographs of Viola during her service with the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), 1943-1966; various newspaper clippings featuring Viola or military related articles, 1971, 1999-2005; letters written to Viola that honor her work and career.
Charlotte Lavone Schuck Collection
The collection includes 2 photographs of Schuck in uniform, circa 1943 to 1946; personal correspondence, 1942 December to 1947 July 4; Navy WAVES Newsletter, circa 1944; Conning Tower United States Naval Training School publication, circa 1944; Freemason Newsletter Ohio, circa 1944; and various newspaper clippings, 1943.
Eleanor Elizabeth House Selzo Collection
This collection includes Correspondence, 1943-1945 and undated ; Military papers, 1944-1946; Back to Civvies booklet, circa 1945; Women's Reserve Information Separation Pamphlet, 1945; United States Naval Training School, Milledgeville, GA, circa 1943-1945.
Blanche Sheaffer Collection
This collection includes Correspondence, 1943-1945; Military papers, 1946; Miscellaneous Printed Materials; Newspaper Clippings,1945; photograph; Matchbooks; Red Cross Patch; VFW Pin.
Agnes C. M. Sliter Rodgers Collection
The collection includes Naval Discharge and Enrollment papers, 24 September 1918-31 December 1920; 2 photographs of Rodger's United States Naval Reserve Yeomanette, 1918-1919.
Grace Swank Alexander Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 January 1999.
Elizabeth Taggart Collection
Elizabeth Pedro Taggart (b. 1962), of South Korea, served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1982 to 1991 and the United States Navy Reserve from 1991-2010.
The collection includes an oral history transcript and various photographs.
Adeline Ledesma Teague Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Teague during her Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) work, circa 1945-1946; a Pace publication (copy) from Los Angeles City College, Col. 5, No. 2, October 1942; an oral history transcript, 17 January 2002.