WV. Women military veterans
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
Doris Wofford Armenaki Collection
Dorothy B. Austell Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 September 2000; a photograph of Austell in uniform, 1943.
Dorothy Avery Collection
Elizabeth "Betty" Bachman Collection
This collection consists of approximately 30 pieces of correspondence during 1943 between Bachman and Miss Cecil De Long of Wapakoneta, Ohio. The letters indicate that Bachman and De Long had a romantic relationship.
Jaenn Coz Bailey Collection
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.
Susie Winston Bain Collection
Beverly Barksdale Sheppe Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 July 1999; 2 photographs of Sheppe during her American Red Cross service, circa 1945.
Bertha Barwikowski Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 November 2000; a portrait photograph of Barwikowski in uniform, circa 1944.
Bonnie James Baxter Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 31 August 2005; correspondence to Bonnie with UNCG Women's Veterans Archivists 2005-2006; various photographs of Baxter and friends during her United States Coast Guard SPARs service, circa 1944-1946.
Kathleen Bayne Collection
The collection includes Bayne's Women's Army Corps hat, 2 Women's Army Corps issued purses, olive drab enlisted winter uniform, a brown blouse, skirt and jacket with 4 gold buttons embossed with United States Great Seal, and 1 Women's Army Corps olive drab enlisted garrison cap with gold and green piping.
Judith C. Bennett Collection
Alice C. Boehret Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 May 2000; an Army Nurse Corps memoir, 1942-1946; various military papers; a photo album; personal papers, including copy of dissertation, 1972; various newspaper clippings; 3rd Service Command patch; herring bone twill (HBT) work uniform; wool liner for jacket and pants; scarf; boots.
Margaret L. Bohler Letter
The V-mail letter is dated 18 April; 1943. Bohler was working to establish a hospital in India and in the letter she describes her living conditions there.
Mary Kate Bonds Collection
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.
Ruth M. Bonin Collection
Newspaper articles from Ruth's service in the WAC and WAC bowling league 1944; military discharge papers 1946; photographs of Ruth with family and during her service 1943-45; personal diary 1942-43; Artifact Box 1 contains WAC Ribbon WWII; Collar Insignia (6) Bronze ; WAC Collar devices Pallas Athene (2).
Bernice Bonner Collection
The collection includes various correspondence, September 1943-July 1945; various photographs, 1943-1945; mixed materials including Christmas greetings, an order from the Postmaster General, a letter from her husband.
Mildred Ikard "Billie" Bourgeois Collection
The collection includes a portrait photograph of Bourgeois in uniform, circa 1944-1946; an oral history transcript, 12 May 2010.
Caroline Harrington Bradburn Bradford Collection
This collection includes November 2014 oral history transcript; a photograph; 1945 travel orders; and 10 digital copies of clippings; military papers and photographs.
Shirley Van Brakle Collection
The collection contains photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
Mary H. Bratt Service Diary
This collection includes "Service Diary U.S. Army, Daytona Beach, Florida" is printed on the cover. Bratt added her name and "2nd W.A.A.C. T.C." Entries begin on 27 March 1943. The diary includes pages for general identification, listing "My Buddies" while in the service, "Officers you have met," and many other subjects related to time in basic training.
Matilda Rubenstein Brenner Collection
Memoir,"Mattie Rubenstein Brenner: Her World War II Story"; "Haledon Woman on Wounded List;" Newark Evening News, 18 December 1944; "Lt. Rubenstein; Wounded by V-Bomb; Home on Hospital Ship;" n.d.; "Lt. Matilda Rubenstein First Woman Casualty From Area;" circa November 1944; photocopies of photographs, circa 1942-1944.
Jean M. Bright Collection
Blanche Berrier Brinkley Collection
Typed memior of service in the Medical Corps Naval Reserve from 1943-1946; various photographs of Blanche; others while serving in Okinawa and also photographs of Hawaii
Jane Gail Brister Collection
Florence Beatrice O'Brien Broomfield Photographs
The collection includes various photographs of members of WAC, Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS); the women's branch of the British army, and French army women march in a parade down the Champs-Elysées celebrating the third anniversary of women in the army in the United States in May 1945.
Meredith Campbell Collection
The collection includes 2007 oral history and copies of photographs.
Nancy E. Carter Family Collection
Kathryn B. Cerwinski Photograph Album
Lola Forbes Chaconas Collection
The collection includes Honorable Discharge paperwork, 1944; obituary, circa 1988; Veterans Administration ID card, no date; photograph (copy), circa 1942 to 1944; khaki uniform, jacket and skirt, circa 1942 to 1944; overseas cap, circa 1944; Women's Army Corps (WAC) ribbon, circa 1944.
Mary Markarian Charpentier Collection
The collection contains photographs; honorable discharge papers; correspondence from Charpentier to her children in Nashua, New Hampshire; and copies of correspondence and photographs.
Dorothy Coley Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 November 1999; various photographs of Coley's American Red Cross service and graduation from Women's College, 1940-1982; Artifact Box 1 contains American Red Cross Consignee pin.
Julia "Judy" Houk Cooley Collection
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.
Ruth Coster Collection
The collection includes a 2000 February 4 oral history transcript; a handwritten military highlights timeline; a copy of an official Honorable Discharge paperwork; newspaper clippings, 1944 to 1946 and 1994; copies of photographs during Coster's service, 1944 to 1945; and copy of Coster's time at Women in Military Service for America Memorial (WIMSA), 1997.
Catherine "Kay" Cox Collection
The collection contains approximately fifty letters written by Cox to Robert W. Curwen (1921-2008), a friend in the U.S. Army Air Forces, during World War II. The letters contain information on Cox's duties in the WAC and her thoughts on the U.S. Army. Included is a copy of the 14 March 1944 Pill Pusher, the newspaper of the Stark General Army Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina.
Geneva Spratt Craig Collection
Geneva Spratt Craig (b. 1919), of Dysartsville, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1943 to 1946.
This collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 November 2010; various scanned photographs.
Genevieve Crick Collection
Mildred D. Dalrymple Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 28 December 2005; various newspaper clippings, September-December 1944 and September 2002; various photographs, circa 1944.
Coralee "Coco" Burson Davis Collection
Coralee "Coco" Burson Davis (1921-2016), of Pasadena, California, served in the Coast Guard SPARS from 1942-1946 and was a member of the Tars and Spars musical revue and movie cast.
Patricia Keegan Delaney Collection
Josephine L. DePietro Collection
Mary C. Dickson Collection
Ellen Mercer Diming Collection
The collection includes a photograph of Diming in her WAVES overcoat and biographical information recorded during her oral history interview, handwritten.
Nadine Dotts Doucet Collection
WAVES uniform items worn by Nadine Doucet during World War II. Items include blue and white dress uniforms, shirts, and several hats and ties.
Mary Gage Dunham Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 January 2000.
Marilyn Roberts (Bobbi) Earp Collection
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.
Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various military papers from Edwards Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various photographs of Edwards Army Special Services work, 1943-1945.
Isabella Peterson Evans Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 June 2000; a photograph of Evans Women's Army Corps service, 1945.
M. Jean Moore Fasse Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 March 2007; scans of photographs; copy of 1958 memoir "My trip behind the Iron Curtain"; copy of American Red Cross Overseas Service Certificate, 1946. The majority of this collection is digital materials.