WV. Women military veterans
Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:
Irene Parsons Collection
Mary "Pat" Elizabeth Partridge Collection
The collection contains correspondence, maps, patches, photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and official documents pertaining to Partridge's Red Cross service.
Lucille Ingram Pauquette Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 February 1999; portrait photograph of Pauquette in uniform, October 1945.
Eleanor K. Peck Letters
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.
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.
Ruth Mary Petry Collection
Thelma L. Meyer Petty Collection
Constance Cline Phillips Collection
The collection includes various Women's Army Corps publications, 1944; 2 event programs, 1945; various photographs of Phillips Women's Army Corps service with the Women's Army Corps, 1945-1946; various military papers with identification passes, 1945-1946; correspondence with her parents and friends, February-April 1945, January-August 1946; an oral history transcript, 24 May 1999.
Maxine Newcom Pierce Collection
Marie Louise Pihlblad Collection
Lillian M. Pimlott Collection
Helen Bolling Potts Collection
Collection consists of a 2003 oral history transcript; correspondence; photographs; postcards; newspaper clipping; custom made uniform (skirt and jacket); shirt; boots; and a 29th Rangers shoulder patch.
Annie Pozyck Collection
Emily Harris Preyer Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 April 1999; 2 photographs of Preyer; a copy of newspaper article, 12 January 1989; a desk nameplate; a khaki overcoat.
Jane Pritchard Collection
The contents of this collection contains three letters from 1945 from Pritchard's friend Private First Class Susan Peters, who was stationed in Florence, Italy as a member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). These letters describe the places around the world that Peters travelled to, and her fellow WACs. There is also one photograph of an unnamed woman - presumably Jane Pritchard - in a naval uniform.
Daisy Chamness Proctor Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2000; watercolor portrait photograph of Proctor in American Red Cross uniform, undated.
Estelle Garner Ptaszynski Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 February 1999; various photographs of Ptaszynski’s Army Nurse Corps service as a surgical nurse, 1943-1944.
Lucy Phillips Pugh Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 May 1999; various photographs of Pugh’s Coast Guard SPARS service and at SPAR’s reunions, 1944-1990; 2 postcards of SPAR Training Center, Palm Beach, undated; an article from the Reservist magazine, November 1997; "The Coast Guard & The Women's Reserve in World War II," booklet, 1992.
Carrie Radnik Collection
Carrie Radnik of Montrose, Alabama, served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.
Collection includes oral history interview and photographs from Radnik's service with the Army Nurse Corps in Louisiana and in Australia and New Guinea in the early 1940s.
Elizabeth Ann Ray Collection
Elizabeth "Betty" Ann Ray of Winnsboro, Texas, served as an officer in the United States Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), Women's Army Corps (WAC), and Women in the Air Force (WAF). Ray served as both deputy director and director of WAF. Her service career lasted from 1942 till 1964.
The collection includes 11 June 2008 oral history transcript; Military service resume; sheet of Women in the Armed Services stamps; photographs from service 1944-1973.
Virginia Russell Reavis Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 September 2000; various military paperwork, 1944-1945; various photographs of Reavis during her Army Air Force service, 1943; an article published from the Tideland News, Swansboro, NC, 2000; an Army Air Evacuation Nurse Wings metal uniform pin located in Artifact box.
Dolores Reed Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 May 2007.
Margaret "Peggy" Reeve Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 January 1999; a Women's Army Corps training booklet, 1943; 5 photographs of Reeve while serving with the WAC, April 1944.
Jean Holdridge Reeves Oral History
The collection includes a 2007 February 14 oral history transcript.
Madge Owens Reynolds Collection
The collection includes a reproduction of a photograph and a 1943 navy blue wool navy nurse cape.
Sammie M. Rice Collection
The collection includes various correspondence, 1942-1947; various photographs of Rice during her Army Nurse Corps service, circa 1942-1945; various clippings, including topics about her service and when in college, circa 1942-1950.
Geraldine Smith Richardson Collection
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.
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.
Marguerite B. Robinson Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 January 2007.
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.
Buren Rose Oral History
Buren Rose (1919-2018) of Jefferson City, Missouri, served in the United States civil service at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center (now Lackland Air Force Base) where she was the driver for Colonel Morris Taber from 1942 to 1943.
The collection includes a 2008 November 5 oral history transcript.
Eunice M. Rountree Photographs
The collection includes 2 photographs, circa 1942-1945.
Louise E. Roy Scrapbook
Louise E. Roy’s scrapbooks document her time with the American Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) from 1942-1945. The photographs depict images from Hawaii, Guam, and San Francisco showing landscapes, wildlife, colleagues, and military vehicles. Also included are maps, postcards, and news articles.
Jeanne Grushinski Rubin Collection
Lola H. Ryan Letters
The collection contains approximately 120 letters and v-mail written by Lola Ryan to her parents and brother. Ryan discusses her experiences of being a nurse in basic training, the conditions in wartime France, German prisoners of war, her experiences as a wartime nurse, and her longing to return home and be discharged from the army.
Mary Amanda Sabourin Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 1999; a green and white pinstriped summer uniform, including dress, jacket, white gloves, and garrison cap for Marine Corps Women's Reserve, 1952.
Joan Margaret Salvesen Collection
Eveline Y. Santy Collection
Eveline Y. Santy (1919-2008) served in the United States Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1945.
The collection includes a service diary, military ID button, a military publication, and training manual.
Norma Schrader Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 February 2007; a scrapbook documenting Schrader's time with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), undated; various certificates, 2013-2020; garrison cap with insignia; a photograph of Schrader, undated; a copy of a newspaper article titled, "The Role of the Chief Petty Officer in the Modern Navy," Naval Institute Proceedings, April 1957; garrison cap;award; photograph; chief warrant officer charge book.
Walta Mae Schreiber Collection
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.
Mildred Curtis Scott Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Scott's Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various military papers, June-December 1945.
Ellen L. Scott Letters
Collection consists of seven letters written to her parents in Johnson City, Tennessee. In the letters, Scott discusses military life at the various bases at which she was assigned as well as her job responsibilities. The last letter indicates that she had left the WAC and was living in Gadsden, Alabama with her husband Bill who was serving in the Army Air Force.
Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo Collection
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.
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.
Nancy Featherhoff Sendelbach Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 May 2000; photographs of Sendelbach during her Women Air Force Service pilots service, 1943-1944; various clippings and Air Force papers, 1943-1995.
Fern Lucille Shaferly Collection
This collection includes Correspondence, 1944-1945, 1986; Diary, 1943-1946; Newspaper clippings; Miscellaneous printed material, 1943-1946; Army Air Corps Patch; National Defense Service Card, 1943.
Elizabeth Shamburger Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 March 1999.
Norma Petree Shaver Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 May 2001; photographs of Norma in Manila, Philippines, 1945. Newspaper clippings, 1943; WAC certificate, 1943.