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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 176 Collections and/or Records:

Marcelle Fischer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0253
Scope and Contents The Marcelle Fischer Papers primarily consists of correspondence, printed materials, photographs and artifacts, most of which date from or pertain to Fischer's service in the WAAC and WAAC during World War II. Correspondence from Fischer includes discussion of her duties teaching office work to male soldiers and general WAC life, such as barracks life, dating, social outings, her feelings regarding her contribution to the war effort, and her desire for advancement in the WAC. The...
Dates: 1935-1990

Josephine Martin Flynn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0212
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 May 2001; Postcard with photograph of WAAC training, 1942; Military paperwork 1946,1967; The Alumni Review publication from 1944; various newspaper article clippings 1942-1944; book of United States Defense Savings Bonds; Original War Department ID; Official WAC portrait photographs of Josephine Flynn 1942-1946. OS Box 2 Newspaper and Magazine Articles 1942-1943; Look Magazine, 1942; The New York Times, 1942; The Charlotte Observer,...
Dates: 1942-2001

Theo Roberts Fore Creadick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0007
Content Description

The collection includes various military papers, 1944-1950; 1 photograph of Creadick in uniform, undated; a book showing activities at "The Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School (WR), Northampton, Mass. and The Naval Training School (Communications-W), South Hadley, Mass," undated.

Dates: circa 1944 - 1950

Charlesanna L. Fox Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0049
Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, photographs, and biographical materials documenting her experience as a camp librarian at Camp Lejeune, NC, and at Pear Harbor, HI; along with various printed materials, including newspaper clippings and souvenirs, and an oral history transcript, 5 March 1999.

Dates: 1942-2008

Janet Froome Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0120
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1941-1999

Arline E. Furstman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0287
Scope and Contents

Letters and postcards from Arline Furstman to an acquaintance in Jamaica, Long Island, chiefly document Furstman's service with the WAVES in 1944 and 1945. Letters detail her duties in the military; off-duty activities; reactions to VJ Day in August 1945; entertainment; and the 1945 plane crash into the Empire State Building.

Dates: 1944-1945

Caroline Morrison Garrett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0426
Scope and Contents The collection includes materials created and/or used by Caroline Morrison during her time serving as a dietetic student at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and as a dietitian in the Army Medical Corps from 1944 through 1947.The collection contains correspondence, educational materials, military records, newspaper clippings, photographs, pins and patches, publications, scrapbooks and an oral history...
Dates: 1941-1948

Ruth King Garrett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0392
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 April 2007; various scans of photographs, along with a letter, 1945.

Dates: circa 1945, 2007

Laura Avis Gibson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0327
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 August 2005; various photographs of Gibson during and after her Coast Guard service, circa 1944-1945, 2005.

Dates: 1944-1946, 2005

Katherine Faye Giles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0215
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 May 2001; OS Box 1 contains portrait photograph of graduating class of sergeant school 1st class c 1944; newspaper clipping of Katherine's wedding while in service in Marine Corps in Cherry Point, SC, not dated; photocopy of Katherine in page of a National Geographic 1943 article "Bound fpr Boot Camp"; Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point SC pictoral booklet of base; Booklets "Meet Molly Marine" and This is it Cherry Point", circa 1945;...
Dates: 1943-1945, 2001

Margaret Greene Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0099
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 1999; poem written by Walter Mathau, dedicated to Red Cross workers; various photographs of Greene's Red Cross service, 1943-1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Sarah B. Greenlee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0150
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1944-2000

Ruth M. Gregg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0252
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1943-1945

Dorothy Mae Griffin Rice Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0112
Content Description

The collection includes 1999 October 31 oral history transcript; photograph of Dorothy with Marine Recruiting Office staff in Denver, Colorado,1944; photograph of Dorothy flight clearance staff at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, California,1945 and a Marine Corps Shoulder Bag.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Eileen E. Hallstein Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0712
Content Description The collection includes a scrapbook, 1943-1945. The album begins with a group of images of Eileen’s home life at a farm in Illinois, followed by photos from her time training as a nurse at Gardiner General Hospital in Chicago, Fort Dix, New Jersey and Camp Atterbury, Indiana. The rest of the images mainly depict her time in England: the 231st hospital buildings at Morley Hall, Norfolk, nurses posing and relaxing on the hospital grounds, nurses at drill, an interior view of an orthopedic...
Dates: 1943-1945

Mary Kathryn Hampton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0335
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 November 2005; Memoirs written by Mary Kathryn: "Experiences in the 44th Evacuation Hospital, World War II", undated, 31 pages; photographs of Mary visiting the WWII memorial with nurses that served with her during the war in Normandy; portrait photograph of Mary Kay Hampton, circa 1944; in the ANC blue service uniform with matching garrison cap.

Dates: 1944-2005

Norma L. Harris Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0309
Scope and Contents

The collection contains military papers, pins and patches, programs, newsletters and newspapers from the areas where Harris served, and WAC songbooks.

Dates: 1943 - 1948

Margaret E. Hasell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0013
Content Description

The collection includes various Greeting cards, letters, and telegrams addressed to Hassell from various family members, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1945

Faith S. Hawkins Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0325
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 August 2005; various photographs of Hawkins Cadet Nurse Corps service, circa 1943 and 1946; various newspaper publications related to the Cadet Nurse Corps, March 1946 and February 1995.

Dates: 1943, 1946; 1995, 2005

Sarah Clapp Haworth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0509
Content Description

Sarah Clapp Haworth (1920-2011), of Swannanoa, North Carolina, served in the United States Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) from 1942 to 1943.

This collection includes 18 March 2011 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2011 March 18

Anna Louis Henderson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0218
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of The WAC Medical Detachment graduating class Company 8 of the 21st WAC Regiment, also posing by herself and with 2 patients from the Hospital where she served 1945; Handwritten photocopied essay from 2001 on working at the Finney General Hospital in Thomasville, GA, 1945; article on the "99th WAC Hospital Company", 1945.

Dates: circa 1945, 2001

Mary Ann Henning Moore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0102
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 July 1999; various Navy military papers, 1944-1946; a portrait photograph of Moore in Navy WAVES uniform, circa 1945; a transcription from "Virginia Society Dames in the Military," 1991.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Margaret Winston Henry Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0435
Content Description Margaret Winston Henry of Springdale, West Virginia, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) as a storekeeper during World War II. This collection includes 58 letters and one greeting card; dated May to December,1944.They are love letters sent by Henry to Pharmacy Mate Dallas S. Chambers at the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Brooklyn,New York. The letters focus primarily on Henry's and Chambers' relationship but...
Dates: 1944

Evelyn Henson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0214
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 May 2001; portrait photograph of Evelyn; Army Nurse Corps service uniform and garrison cap, circa 1945.

Dates: 1945, 2001

Bessie L. Herbert Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0303
Scope and Contents Photograph album contains pictures of Bessie L. Herbert and friends in various poses during her service in the WAC in World War II. Photos were taken at Camp Grant, Illinois; Fort Sheridan, Illinois; on leave in Brookfield, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; and downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Includes some photos of Herbert's family and many of her WAC colleagues. Topics include Herbert posing in front of a WAAC recruitment poster; scenery around Camp Grant in the winter of 1943-44 and...
Dates: 1943-1944

Helen Boileau Hester Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0128
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 December 1999; original mess hall pass, 1945; copies of various military papers, 1943-1945; United States Marine Corps song booklet, circa 1940s; photograph of Hester and husband in uniform; Textile Box 1: forest green service hat, forest green jacket, herringbone garrison cap, spruce green garrison cap, green cloth bag cover, and buffalo hide purse.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Anne Elisabeth Heyer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0320
Scope and Contents The collection includes various correspondence, military material, photographs, military insignia, and other artifacts document Anne Elisabeth "Betty" Heyer's service in the WAAC and WAC between 1942 and 1945. Lengthy letters to family members describe her training in the United States and her subsequent service in the Pacific Theater as a photography repair technician. Overseas letters document her observation of New Guinea and the Philippines. Printed military material reflects Heyer's...
Dates: 1942-1946 and undated

Lucile Hill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0401
Content Description

Photographs and letter. This collection has not been digitized.

Dates: 1942-1945

Margery Holben Moore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0656
Scope and Contents

This collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, digital interview, logbooks, military papers, and uniform (1 jacket, 2 skirts, and 1 beret).

Dates: 2000-2001

Ava Caudle Honeycutt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0438
Content Description

Ava Honeycutt of Anson County, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during WWII.

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 November 2008; Hand-colored portrait photograph of Ava Caudle Honeycutt,circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1940s - 2008 November 22

Evelyn E. Horton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0381
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, military papers, photographs, and writings by Evelyn Horton. Most of the correspondence is written by Evelyn to her parents back home in Massachusetts. However, there are a few letters from WAC friends and one letter from her brother. The photographs include pictures from before Evelyn joined the WAC; photographs of her in uniform at Camp Pickett, Virginia; Evelyn costumed as "Miss Liberty" for the U.S. Army musical revue Sandsations of 1944; other...
Dates: 1925-1948

Marthalou Hunter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0105
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various photographs of Hunter during her service for Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; various poetry written by Hunter.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Portia Hunter Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0268
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944-1945

Marjorie L. Jackson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0342
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 123 letters written by Jackson to her fiance, Henry Heusinkveld, from February through August 1945, while Jackson was stationed in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and later, Louisville, Kentucky. While the letters contain some information on Jackson's day-to-day life as a WAC, they focus primarily on the couple's personal relationship.

Dates: 1945

Leona "Evelyn" Jensen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0368
Abstract

Leona "Evelyn" Jensen joined the United States Navy WAVES in the summer of 1944. She worked in a United States naval hospital located in Seattle, Washington during World War II. Her scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, U.S. naval hospital newspapers called The Stethoscope, letters, postcards, patient tags, and drawings.

Dates: 1945; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/2006

Carol Lorraine Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0261
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1943-1951

Marjory Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0111
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 October oral history and photographs, 1945-1946.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Olene Brumbles Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0190
Content Description

The collection includes a copy of Navy discharge papers, 1945; photographs of Olene in casual clothes and uniform, circa 1943-45.

Dates: 1943-1945

Ellen Jordan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0130
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history; Jordan at boot camp graduation in Camp Wolters, Texas; and various copies of photographs from Jordan's time at Camp Wolters, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0142
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 November 2000; a “Song and Service Book for Ship and Field: Army and Navy,” 1942; a copy of Honorable Discharge paperwork, 21 February 1946; various photographs of Kaplowitz while serving in the Women's Army Corps (WAC), circa 1945; Artifact Box includes a bag of WAC Veteran's Association souvenir buttons; bottle openers.

Dates: circa 1944-2000

Katie S. King Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0334
Content Description

The collection contains a 2005 oral history transcript; photographs; military materials (facsimiles), 1944-1948; educational materials (facsimiles), 1947-1948, 1997; and religious materials (facsimiles), 1968-2005.

Dates: 1944-2005

Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0213
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 May 2001; Artifact Box contains: 1 ID Bracelet, lapel pin, collar devices, devices, brass buttons,sleeve stripe braid, V-Mail, 1944; portrait photograph of Erma in Navy WAVES uniform, 1944; various photographs of Erma during service, 1943-1946; Midshipman school yearbook, 1943-44; Naval Reserve ID Card; Official Service Certificates, 1943-1946; Navy Benefits information; Havelock WAVES Newsletter, 1943; New Testament pocket bible; WAVES...
Dates: 1943-2001

Audrey Brewington Knight Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0448
Content Description

The collection includes a 5 February 2009 oral history transcript and copies of photographs.

Dates: circa 1944,2009

Ruth C. Kropp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0292
Abstract

Ruth Cambric Kropp enlisted in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service - Navy) in October 1942 and worked in communications and decoding at various installations until her discharge in November 1944.

This collection consists of five WAVES artifacts used by Ruth Kropp during her World War II service.

Dates: 1942 - 1944

Marian Estelle Gold Krugman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0354
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 July 2006; portrait photograph of Marian wearing a Marines Winter Service Uniform and Hat, circa 1945; Group photograph of a Women Marines basic training class at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in early 1944. All of the women wear the Women Marines winter service uniform and winter service hat. "Free a Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War II" , published in 1994 by the United States Marine Corps; Women Veterans Health Project...
Dates: 1944-1945, 1994-1996, 2006

Winifred Taylor Kuehn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0127
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; "As You Were" magazine, 1994; Navy WAVES book by Elizabeth Allen Butler, 1988; Naval Reserve Midshipman's school song sheet copy; WAVES Sing-A-Long booklet from 50th Anniversary Celebration, circa 1992; photographs of Kuehn in WAVES uniform and gathering with local WAVES group, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Adeline Sears LaPlante Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0395
Scope and Contents

Adeline Sears LaPlante (1919-2006) of Easton, Pennsylvania, served as a recruiter and as a public relations officer in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942-1945.

This collection includes letters, postcards and Christmas cards from LaPlante to her parents about her career in the WAAC and the WAC from 1943-1944. The collection also contains a photograph album, and news clippings from LaPlante's time in the service.

Dates: 1942-1945

Lucy Slade Libby Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0328
Content Description

Memoir written by Lucy on December 2004 "Memories of A World War II Army Nurse on Saipan"; photographs of Lucy at graduation from Duke nursing school; during her service in the war as a nurse at Camp Davis, Wilmington, North Carolina, and later photographs during service overseas along with a photocopied scrapbookwith details of each photograph, circa 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1942-1945, 2004

Nell Smith Lutz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0160
Content Description

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."

Dates: circa 1943-2003

Joan Lyle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0396
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 May 2007; various photocopies of newspaper clippings and photographs, circa 1942-1951; various certificates from her time with the Army Air Force, 1944 and 1950.

Dates: circa 1942-1951, 2007