WV. Women military veterans
Record Group
Identifier: WV
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Margaret L. Bohler Letter
Collection
Identifier: WV 0377
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1943 April 18
Kathryn B. Cerwinski Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: WV 0710
Content Description
Photograph album titled “Evolution of Kathryn B. Cerwinski from Civilian, First Class to Tech/Sgt, WAC, June 30, 1943 to March 20, 1946,” Other than the first four images, which show Cerwinski “fresh out of basic” at Fort Devens in Massachusetts, and around 26 photos of Cerwinski on furlough, the entirety of the album is devoted to her time with Headquarters Detachment at the WAC Third WAC Training Center, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, between 1944 and 1946. This includes portraits of Cerwinski...
Dates:
1943-1946
Mary Markarian Charpentier Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0528
Content Description
The collection contains photographs; honorable discharge papers; correspondence from Charpentier to her children in Nashua, New Hampshire; and copies of correspondence and photographs.
Dates:
circa 1940s
Betty Etten Wiker Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0428
Content Description
This collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 September 2008; photographs of Betty during service as a Women's Army Corps (WAC) 1943-1949; copy of a letter home relaying an exciting bombing mission she was able to take part in. This was to bomb an ice jam on the Chena River to relieve a flooded area in Alaska; copy of a 3 page history of Women's Army Corps from 1942-1945; newpaper clippings circa 1978; 2006 and one undated; American Legion Magazine article on WAC 35th anniversary...
Dates:
1942-1949, 1952, 1977-1978, 2008