WV. Women military veterans
Record Group
Identifier: WV
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Dale Augusta Van Vacter Angers Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0159
Content Description
The collection includes photograph of Angers in uniform, circa 1940s; handwritten timeline of service.
Dates:
circa 1942-1963
Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0523
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1942-1945; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/2007