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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Geraldine Smith Richardson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0373
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a Major Geraldine Smith Richardson's journal spanning from 1942-1946, two military identification cards, an Ancient Order of the Deep membership card, three military medals, and an assortment of military insignia.

Dates: 1942-2000; Other: Majority of material found within 1942 - 1946; Other: Date acquired: 09/17/2006

Jeanne Grushinski Rubin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0570
Content Description This collection includes August 2014 oral history transcript; Navy Nurse Corps dress uniform (jacket; skirt; white shirt; tie); overcoat; top coat; copies of photographs; pin. Additional uniforms (not Navy Nurse Corps): Navy Winter Blue service women's uniform shirt with enlisted electrician mate rating patch and 3 service stripes on left sleeve and United States. Holland patch on right sleeve; date unknown; Chief Petty Officer (CPO) service dress uniform (jacket and skirt) with 3 gold...
Dates: 1942-1948, 2014

Walta Mae Schreiber Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0207
Content Description

The collection includes a Navy Nurse Corps officer's service hat, blue uniform, cape, and garrison cap, circa 1944; photocopied certificate of the Navy Service dated 1947; WW2 Ribbon.

Dates: 1944-1947

Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0331
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 September 2005; undated speech written by Elsie about her life story including living in Stockton, California and moving to China in 1931, joining the Chinese Red Cross during WWII, and subsequent events until 1946 when she left her family in China and moved back to the United States; photographs of Elsie during her service the Chinese Medical Relief Corps, circa 1939-1946.

Dates: 1931, 1946, 2005

Elizabeth Shamburger Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0051
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 March 1999.

Dates: 1999 March 15

Mildred Parish Turton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0144
Content Description

The collection includes paperwork for Army Nurse Discharge, 21 August 1952.

Dates: 1952 August 21

Rachel Brower Twiddy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0133
Abstract Rachel Twiddy (1917-2010), of Liberty, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) at Ford Ord, California, from 1942 until the fall of 1943.The collection includes a 13 December 1999 oral history transcript; portrait photograph of Rachel in Army Nurse Corps uniform with garrison cap, 1942; photographs of Rachel with coworkers and patients at Hospital in Fort Ord, California during World War II, 1942-1943; photocopy of Rachel's Army Nurse Corps Identification Card;...
Dates: circa 1942 to 1943

Unknown WWII U.S. Army Nurse Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0265
Scope and Contents

This diary was written from 1942-1945 by an unknown nurse in the Army Nurse Corps. She served at a hospital in Tehran, Iran.

Dates: 1942-1945

Juanita Webster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0167
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 May 2000; a typed autobiography of Webster's service, 25 pages.

Dates: 1942-2000

Annis Glendon Weir Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0148
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 February 2000; various photographs and copies of Navy Nurse Corps, 1944-2000.

Dates: 1944-2000

Edna Andrews Weston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0091
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 June 1999; various photographs of Weston's Navy Nurse Corps service, January 1944-October 1946.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Mary Wheeler Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0228
Content Description

The collection includes 5 photographs and negatives, along with an interview questionnaire.

Dates: 1944 June; 1944 September ; 2001 October

Elizabeth Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0058
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 March 1999; various photographs of Williams Red Cross service and for a Life Magazine publication, 1943-1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Leah T. Willis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0182
Content Description

The collection includes correspondence to and from Willis during her Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps service, 1944-1945; various military paperwork, 1942-1948; a photograph of Willis in uniform, 1941-1948; typed manuscript "Sir, Ma'am" that include some of her letters; various personal papers from post-military service, undated.

Dates: 1941-1948