WV. Women military veterans
Found in 176 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Molly Thavenet Scrapbook
Marjorie S. Thompson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript completed by the Texas Woman's University Library, 4 June 1994; a photograph of Thompson during her WASP service, circa 1944.
Roberta Wooddell House and Nancy Wooddell Thornton Collection
Shirley M. Tillson Collection
Katharine W. Toll Collection
Katharine Wolcott Toll of Amherst, Massachusetts, was a journalist. She served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II.
The Katharine W. Toll Papers span from 1929 to the 1980s and primarily documents Katharine Toll's service in the WAVES during World War II.
Frances Stanley Trembath Collection
This collection consists primarily of military and miscellaneous documents from 1942-1946; there are also twenty-one photos of Trembath, her nursing colleagues, hospital buildings, and waterfalls. There is one handwritten, unsigned letter from the Western Marine Railway company, asking for a travel refund.
Rachel Brower Twiddy Collection
Dale Augusta Van Vacter Angers Collection
The collection includes photograph of Angers in uniform, circa 1940s; handwritten timeline of service.
Millie Dunn Veasey Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various photographs of Veasey's Women's Army Corps service, 1944-1945; personal papers, including resume, undated.
Winona Franklin Walker Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 July 2003; 3 scrapbooks that contain a number of photographs, postcards, travel brochures, and correspondence. Locations visited by Walker in her scrapbooks include: Bremen, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland.
Juanita Webster Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 May 2000; a typed autobiography of Webster's service, 25 pages.
Florence S. Weil Collection
photographs; Correspondence, 1942-1944; menus and newspaper clippings, 1942-1943.
Annis Glendon Weir Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 February 2000; various photographs and copies of Navy Nurse Corps, 1944-2000.
Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz Collection
Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz (1911-2007) of Detroit, Michigan, served as an officer in African American units of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and later the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942-1945.
The collection is made up of nine photographs and one letter from Wertz to her mother.
Mary Wheeler Collection
The collection includes 5 photographs and negatives, along with an interview questionnaire.
Sherley Mae White Collection
Sherley Mae White (1923-2014) served in the Women's Reserve of the Coast Guard (SPARS) from 1943-1945. She served as a drum major for the SPARS marching band at the Biltmore Training Station in Palm Beach, Florida. She later transferred to the Coast Guard Base in Ketchikan, Alaska.
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.
Lauretta Webster Wilkin Collection
Virgilia Williams Collection
Virgilia "Jill" Williams (1914-2003) of Grandview, Iowa, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) as a pharmacist's mate third class at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, and an instructor of pharmacist's mates at the U.S. Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York, during World War II.
The collection contains correspondence, military papers, photographs, postcards, publications, and a scrapbook kept by Williams.
Willie Mae Williams Collection
The collection includes a 2001 February oral history transcript; photograph of Williams in off-duty Women's Army Corps (WAC) dress with cap, circa 1944; a typed 4 page paper, "Women in the Military Services in the Past"; newspaper article (copy) of Williams on her 90th birthday, 2002 November 22; and additional items are available at Florida State University collections: https://archives.lib.fsu.edu/repositories/6/resources/494.
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.
Doris Dickens Wilson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 March 2007; copy of handwritten service memories and photocopy of photographs in scrapbook during service during WWII from 1942-1945.
Edna Smith Wilson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 July 2006; portrait photograph of Edna in her Marines Winter uniform and hat; photograph of her mother in the Motor Corps in WWI standing in front of a vehicle.
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.
Louise Ross Yegge Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Louise and husband, John, circa 1943-1945; an oral history transcript, 25 January 2002.