WV. Women military veterans
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Laura G. Anderton Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 January 1999; various photographs of Anderton's WAVES service, 1943-1946; correspondence with her mother, 14 August and 13 September 1945.
Frances Barringer Bailey Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 April 1999; various photographs of Bailey's time with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), 1943-1946; a booklet from the Naval Reserve Midshipman's School, 1943; various military papers; an officer hat insignia; Navy discharge pin.
Ora T. Beatty Collection
Ora T. Beatty served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II.
The collection includes 2 letters of recommendation from Beatty's family physician and school principal to consider for WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), personal correspondence, and Navy Training Course certificate. Oversize Box 2 The Stethoscope United States Naval Hospital newsletter and a photograph of Beatty.
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.
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.
Theresa A. Burnett Collection
Catherine Cayle Collection
The collection includes various correspondence among a close friend, Mrs. James R. Dickson, while Cayle was stationed at the Edgewood Arsenal, 23 November 1942-7 April 1945.
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.
Marguerite V. Clodfelter Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 January 1999; various photographs of Clodfelter’s service with U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, undated; various publications for the Cadet Nurse Corps, 1943-1999; various personal papers, including Cadet Nurse Corps uniform descriptions, 1948-1955 and undated; 2 Cadet Nurse/ Cadet Nurse Corps/ United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps insignia Lapel Pins; 2 Cadet Nurse Buttons.
Marie Cody Collection
Correspondence from Donald M. Downey to Cody, 1945-1946; Downey's other correspondence, 1937-1946, 1956-1959 and undated; Miscellaneous newsletter and newspaper clippings, circa 1940s.
Beatrice L. Crisler Letter
This collection includes a letter dated 27 November 1943. Crisler describes her living conditions at her posting in India.
Edna L. Snow Morris Dillman Letters
This collections has 65 letters that begin in June 1943-September 1944.
Mary Williams Elder Collection
The collection includes various correspondence among Women’s Army Corps veterans for stories to create a book, June 1992; brief biography on Elder’s military service, undated; various newspaper publications, including newsletters for Women's Army Corps, 1992-1998; an oral history transcript, 2 February 1999; various photographs of Elder, 1942-1994; postcards from the Norwich Central Public Library, circa 1960s.
Janet Froome Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 November 1999; various correspondence, 1942-1944; various diary entries, 1942-1945; various military papers, 1941-1983; Memories of World War II, Froome interview with George L. McDermott; various photographs of Froome's Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1945.
Ruth King Garrett Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 April 2007; various scans of photographs, along with a letter, 1945.
Sarah B. Greenlee Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 February 2000; portrait photograph of Greenlee in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1944; copy of newspaper clipping, 1944.
Ruth M. Gregg Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Gregg's during her Army Nurse Corps service, circa 1943-1945; various correspondence with a Dr. Rossi, circa 1943-1944; various papers, including her engagement announcement, circa 1946; Oversize box 2: The Stars and Stripes magazine, 7 June 1944.
Myrtle Otto Hanke Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 February 2000; various correspondence, 1941-1945; various newspaper clippings, 1942-1946; photographs and 16 artist color renderings of Coolangatta, Queensland/Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.
Lucile Hill Collection
Photographs and letter. This collection has not been digitized.
Nancy Riddle Hinchliffe Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 1999; various military papers from Hinchliffe's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; copies of "The Flyer: Publication Dedicated to the Service of Selfridge Field Personnel," publication, 13 May-5 August 1943; various personal papers, 1944-1945; various photographs of Hinchliffe during her service, 1944-1945.
Portia Hunter Correspondence
This collection includes Correspondence from Hunter to her brother, January 1944 to March 1945; Correspondence to Evelyn Crick Hunter from her siblings Don and Genny Crick. SEE ALSO the Genevieve Crick collection.
Madge P. Selstead Inman and Marvin R. Inman Correspondence
Carol Lorraine Johnson Collection
Two folders and a scrapbook. The scrapbook includes several brochures from Japan and Utah, letters from the Red Cross, and letters written to her mother. A manila folder includes various clippings from where Johnson was stationed and the second manila folder contains paperwork for a recommendation from a Red Cross Field Director, along with letters from her mother and possibly a gentleman who was her brother and various newspaper clippings.
Lucile Griffin Leonard Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 January 1999; various correspondence, including Victory Mail, September 1943-May 1945; various photographs of Leonard’s United States Army service as dietician, circa 1944-1945 and undated; various military papers, 1943-1946; a scrapbook documenting Leonard's Army service, 1943-1945; Griffin's Army Dietician olive drab uniform, 1942-1943.
Nell Smith Lutz Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 March 2003; various photographs of Lutz's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency (WAVES) Navy, 1943-1945; personal correspondence during her WAVES service, 1943-1944, along with Navy papers and newspaper clippings, 1943-2003; DVD video interview by Bob Gaines "The Vanishing Generation."
Sylvia Lynch Letters
This collection includes four letters written by Lynch from Manila, Philippines in August and September, 1945. Lynch discusses conditions in Manila, V-J day, and predictions on when she will be discharged from the WAC.
Jamie Marshall Collection
7 folders of personal correspondence 1943-1945; oil ration coupons, 1943; Houston Lighting and Power Comp. Employee documents for Henry Marshall; Newspaper article photocopy dated Friday, October 20,1944: an editorial from the Stars and Stripes titled" Don't Get Chummy with Jerry".
Gertrude McSpiritt Collection
The collection includes a Memoir, circa 1999; School Group Presentations Speeches, circa 1999; photocopies of photograph, 1943-1945; photograph, 1999; Correspondence between McSpiritt and the Army, 1995-1996; "Air Transport Command; What Does it Signify? What Does it Mean to You? What Does the WAC Do in the ATC?;" circa 1943-1944.
Bernice Moran Miller Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various personal correspondence; various photographs of Miller while serving with the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1945.
Nan M. Nabors Letters
This collection includes Correspondence, 1944-1946. Though the majority of correspondence is personal in nature it presents insights into many different aspects of the military, including the urgent need for infantry, the relationship between officers and enlisted soldiers, life as a soldier, and Nabors's experiences as a female serving in the military.
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.
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.
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.
Charlotte Lavone Schuck Collection
The collection includes 2 photographs of Schuck in uniform, circa 1943 to 1946; personal correspondence, 1942 December to 1947 July 4; Navy WAVES Newsletter, circa 1944; Conning Tower United States Naval Training School publication, circa 1944; Freemason Newsletter Ohio, circa 1944; and various newspaper clippings, 1943.
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.
Ruth and James Paul Shadewaldt Correpsondence
Two World War II V-mail albums of correspondence between brother and sisters. Ruth was serving in the Army Nurse Corps and was stationed in the Pacific; Her brother James Paul was serving in the Europe Theater of Operations.
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.
Ruth Shaver Collection
Elizabeth Simpson Collection
Papers; postcards; photographs; and artifacts.
Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection
The collection includes miscellaneous photographs; service diary; military papers; flight log; United States Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia Pictorial Review, circa 1943 to 1945; "WAVES of the Navy: A Story of the Women's Reserve Activities at the Naval Air Station by Eunice A. Horne; Certificate of Satisfactory Service ID Card, 1946; Officer's Cap Device; Lieutenant's Collar Bars; Honorable Service "Ruptured Duck" Pin; and Dog Tags, 1942.
Florence S. Weil Collection
photographs; Correspondence, 1942-1944; menus and newspaper clippings, 1942-1943.
Nina Johnson Wiglesworth Collection
The collection includes a 1999 December 8 oral history transcript; a personal letter to Wiglesworth from a captain, 1944 October 25; photographs of Wiglesworth at Camp Lejeune and in Washington D.C. in uniform, circa 1943 to 1945.
Leah T. Willis Collection
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.
Doris K. Wilmott Collection
The collection includes various letters of correspondence and greeting cards during Wilmott's service, May 1943-July 1945; a newspaper clipping titled "Wins Soldier's Medal," 19 November 1943; a copy of The Stars and Stripes military newspaper, 23 November 1943; mixed materials, July 1943, undated.
Elizabeth Ryan Wiviott Collection
The collection includes 2 full newspaper publications, February 1945; various invitations to events on the U.S.S. Franklin and U.S.S. Shangri-La, 1944; a songbook for the WAVES, February 1943; various photographs, 1944; a thank you letter from a Mrs. Doolittle for attending luncheon, February 1944; 2 letters from UNC Greensboro, 1992 and 1998; a Navy WAVES dress uniform with Havelock and a white leather class jacket from her graduation at the UNC Woman's College, 1942.