WV. Women military veterans
Record Group
Identifier: WV
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Maxine Virginia Easter Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0108
Content Description
The collection includes a 1999 October oral history, names tags, ribbons, and insignia from service in the Navy as Chief Nurse from tour in Philippines, and a bronze dish with the Army Nurse Corps branch insignia in Artifact Box 1; Oversize Box stores Raleigh News and Observer 1945 August 15 article announcing Japanese surrender; local newspaper clippings from 1963 to 1980 highlighting Easter's career with the Navy Nurse Corps in Port Hueneme, CA, and photographs from nursing career...
Dates:
circa 1942-1970
Caroline Morrison Garrett Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0426
Scope and Contents
The collection includes materials created and/or used by Caroline Morrison during her time serving as a dietetic student at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and as a dietitian in the Army Medical Corps from 1944 through 1947.The collection contains correspondence, educational materials, military records, newspaper clippings, photographs, pins and patches, publications, scrapbooks and an oral history...
Dates:
1941-1948
Marjory Johnson Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0111
Content Description
The collection includes a 1999 October oral history and photographs, 1945-1946.
Dates:
circa 1944-1999
Eleanor K. Peck Letters
Collection
Identifier: WV 0420
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of fifteen letters written by Peck to her family beginning a few days after her arrival in London, England, on 31 October 1941. The letters are addressed to "Poppy", which may be her father, and "Ros", which may be a nickname for her younger sister Rosamond, as well as her family. All fifteen letters describe the people and everyday life in London before she was commissioned by the Army, and discuss any news from the war and her family.
Dates:
1941-1943