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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Beverly Barksdale Sheppe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0103
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 July 1999; 2 photographs of Sheppe during her American Red Cross service, circa 1945.

Dates: circa 1945-1999

Bonnie James Baxter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0329
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 31 August 2005; correspondence to Bonnie with UNCG Women's Veterans Archivists 2005-2006; various photographs of Baxter and friends during her United States Coast Guard SPARs service, circa 1944-1946.

Dates: 1944-1946, 2005

Alice C. Boehret Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0166
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 May 2000; an Army Nurse Corps memoir, 1942-1946; various military papers; a photo album; personal papers, including copy of dissertation, 1972; various newspaper clippings; 3rd Service Command patch; herring bone twill (HBT) work uniform; wool liner for jacket and pants; scarf; boots.

Dates: 1942-2000

Blanche Berrier Brinkley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0384
Content Description

Typed memior of service in the Medical Corps Naval Reserve from 1943-1946; various photographs of Blanche; others while serving in Okinawa and also photographs of Hawaii

Dates: circa 1943-1989

Meredith Campbell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0397
Content Description

The collection includes 2007 oral history and copies of photographs.

Dates: 2007

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

Dorothy Coley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0117
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 November 1999; various photographs of Coley's American Red Cross service and graduation from Women's College, 1940-1982; Artifact Box 1 contains American Red Cross Consignee pin.

Dates: circa 1940-1999

Julia "Judy" Houk Cooley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0452
Content Description

The collection includes digitized photographs of Cooley in uniform, circa 1944-1947; Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) garrison cap insignia and collar insignia; a 12 March 2009 oral history transcript.

Dates: circa 1944-1947

Geneva Spratt Craig Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0505
Content Description

Geneva Spratt Craig (b. 1919), of Dysartsville, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1943 to 1946.

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 November 2010; various scanned photographs.

Dates: 2010 November 18

Coralee "Coco" Burson Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0222
Abstract

Coralee "Coco" Burson Davis (1921-2016), of Pasadena, California, served in the Coast Guard SPARS from 1942-1946 and was a member of the Tars and Spars musical revue and movie cast.

Dates: 1942-1946

Patricia Keegan Delaney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0209
Content Description 1 May 2001 oral hIstory transcript; Navy WAVES Newsletter "Sounding Off" dated June 22, 1943; photocopy of Booklet "How to serve your county in the WAVES of SPARS" (not dated) Patricia is photographed in this publication; Marching to Victory Booklet of songs and hymns for enlisted Navy WAVES servicemembers; various newspaper clippings 1943-1945; photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt with Navy Captian during WAVES review,1942; photograph of Patricia in front of the Northampton Tavern while...
Dates: 1942-1945

Marilyn Roberts (Bobbi) Earp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0174
Content Description

The collection includes a 2000 June oral history transcript; Newspaper article photocopy from Whiteville, NC, 1989; portrait photograph of Marilyn in her Navy WAVES uniform; photographs of Marilyn and her husband during their service, 1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1949

Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0177
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various military papers from Edwards Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various photographs of Edwards Army Special Services work, 1943-1945.

Dates: 1943-2000

M. Jean Moore Fasse Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0390
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 March 2007; scans of photographs; copy of 1958 memoir "My trip behind the Iron Curtain"; copy of American Red Cross Overseas Service Certificate, 1946. The majority of this collection is digital materials.

Dates: 1946, 1958, 2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marie M. Mason Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0510
Content Description

Marie M. Mason (b. 1916), of Swan Quarter, North Carolina, served overseas in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.

This collection includes March 2011 oral history transcript and scanned photographs.

Dates: 2011 March 19

Edna Painter Searles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0106
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Searles in Marine Corps Women's Reserve uniform, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Irene Parsons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0311
Content Description The collection includes a 2 August 2005 oral history transcript; a booklet titled "Alumni News: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro," Fall 1965; an article from the Topeka Paper titled "Luckily for 170,000 employes, she isn't typical boss-lady: North Carolina native holds highest personnel post ever held by woman," 5 September 1965; a booklet "Careers for Women...in the Veterans Administration," September 1973; a copy of Certificate for Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, 4 June...
Dates: 1945; 1965-1973

Ruth Kent Petker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0125
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Petker in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES) uniform, circa 1943.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Helen Bolling Potts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0234
Content Description

Collection consists of a 2003 oral history transcript; correspondence; photographs; postcards; newspaper clipping; custom made uniform (skirt and jacket); shirt; boots; and a 29th Rangers shoulder patch.

Dates: 1943-1946, 2003

Annie Pozyck Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0333
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 July 2005; personal letters (photocopies) from January 1945 - September 1945; Textile box contains Army Nurse Corps olive drab wool officers jacket and skirt, circa 1943; bronze star medal with asiata pacific insignia; WWII victory medal; Phillipines liberation medal; United States Navy gold insignia; American Campaign medal; Army services patch. portrait photograph of Annie and also a portrait photograph of Annie and her husband in...
Dates: 1943-1946, 2005

Charlotte Lavone Schuck Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0203
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1942-1947

Nancy Featherhoff Sendelbach Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0168
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 May 2000; photographs of Sendelbach during her Women Air Force Service pilots service, 1943-1944; various clippings and Air Force papers, 1943-1995.

Dates: 1943-2000

Norma Petree Shaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0217
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 May 2001; photographs of Norma in Manila, Philippines, 1945. Newspaper clippings, 1943; WAC certificate, 1943.

Dates: 1943, 1945, 2001

Phyllis Hinton Snyder Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0146
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 February 2000; various photographs 1943-1944.

Dates: 1943-2000

Rachel Brower Twiddy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0133
Abstract Rachel Twiddy (1917-2010), of Liberty, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) at Ford Ord, California, from 1942 until the fall of 1943.The collection includes a 13 December 1999 oral history transcript; portrait photograph of Rachel in Army Nurse Corps uniform with garrison cap, 1942; photographs of Rachel with coworkers and patients at Hospital in Fort Ord, California during World War II, 1942-1943; photocopy of Rachel's Army Nurse Corps Identification Card;...
Dates: circa 1942 to 1943

Millie Dunn Veasey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0176
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944-2000

Mary Wheeler Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0228
Content Description

The collection includes 5 photographs and negatives, along with an interview questionnaire.

Dates: 1944 June; 1944 September ; 2001 October

Nina Johnson Wiglesworth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0132
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1943-1999