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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 643 Collections and/or Records:

Buren Rose Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0433
Abstract

Buren Rose (1919-2018) of Jefferson City, Missouri, served in the United States civil service at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center (now Lackland Air Force Base) where she was the driver for Colonel Morris Taber from 1942 to 1943.

The collection includes a 2008 November 5 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2008 November 5

Sandra Van Neel Ross Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0584
Content Description The collection includes a 29 April 2015 oral history transcript; a photograph of Ward 5 neurosurgery, South Vietnam, 1968; a photograph of Ross, South Vietnam, December 1968; a photograph of Ross in uniform, undated; a photograph of Ross with several other at workshop, Germany, May 1968; a photograph of Ross looking out at Long Binh post, South Vietnam, circa 1968-1969; a portrait photograph of Ross, September 1970; a photograph of Ross leaving Heidelberg, Germany, June 1971; 2 photographs...
Dates: circa 1965-1985

Eunice M. Rountree Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0012
Content Description

The collection includes 2 photographs, circa 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1942 - 1945

Louise E. Roy Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0374
Content Description

Louise E. Roy’s scrapbooks document her time with the American Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) from 1942-1945. The photographs depict images from Hawaii, Guam, and San Francisco showing landscapes, wildlife, colleagues, and military vehicles. Also included are maps, postcards, and news articles.

Dates: 1942-1945

Jeanne Grushinski Rubin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0570
Content Description This collection includes August 2014 oral history transcript; Navy Nurse Corps dress uniform (jacket; skirt; white shirt; tie); overcoat; top coat; copies of photographs; pin. Additional uniforms (not Navy Nurse Corps): Navy Winter Blue service women's uniform shirt with enlisted electrician mate rating patch and 3 service stripes on left sleeve and United States. Holland patch on right sleeve; date unknown; Chief Petty Officer (CPO) service dress uniform (jacket and skirt) with 3 gold...
Dates: 1942-1948, 2014

Ingrid Ruffin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0400
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 May 2007; various photograph copies of Ruffin's while stationed in Iraq completing duties, hanging out with fellow soldiers, and exploring the landscape, 2003.

Dates: circa 2003, 2007

Lola H. Ryan Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0362
Scope and Contents

The collection contains approximately 120 letters and v-mail written by Lola Ryan to her parents and brother. Ryan discusses her experiences of being a nurse in basic training, the conditions in wartime France, German prisoners of war, her experiences as a wartime nurse, and her longing to return home and be discharged from the army.

Dates: 1943-1945

Janice Butler Ryckeley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0589
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 July 2015; various scanned photographs of her time with the Air Force Nurse Corps, 1980-2001; and an Air Force Officer service hat.

Dates: 2015 July 26

Mary Amanda Sabourin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0100
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 1999; a green and white pinstriped summer uniform, including dress, jacket, white gloves, and garrison cap for Marine Corps Women's Reserve, 1952.

Dates: 1952-1999

Joan Margaret Salvesen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0665
Content Description The collection includes "Marching to Victory" songbook, 1943 January 8; "How to serve your country in the WAVES" recruiting pamphlet, 1943 July 2; "The Story of You in Navy Blue" recruiting booklet, 1943 October 6; "Navy Service: A Short History of the United States Naval Training School (WR) Bronx, New York," no date; 2 photographs, no date; various correspondence, 1943 July 12 to September 28 and 1944 August 26; "A Sailor's Prayer;" "Women in Service" newspaper clipping mentioning...
Dates: 1943-1944

Viola Brown Sanders Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0323
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 June 2005; various photographs of Viola during her service with the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), 1943-1966; various newspaper clippings featuring Viola or military related articles, 1971, 1999-2005; letters written to Viola that honor her work and career.

Dates: 1943-2005

Eveline Y. Santy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0474
Abstract

Eveline Y. Santy (1919-2008) served in the United States Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1945.

The collection includes a service diary, military ID button, a military publication, and training manual.

Dates: circa 1943-1945

Jerusha A. Sawyer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0312
Scope and Contents This collection contains three manuscript wartime letters, 1862-1864, written to Jerusha A. Sawyer by grateful soliders who served alongside or were treated by her. Also, a post-war Department of the Interior Pension Award certificate, an original that includes receipt stamp by the U.S. Pension Agent at Boston, Massachusetts, dated 1894 January 20. The third letter, written on 1864 February 13, by Colonel Louis Bell from the 4th Regiment Head Quarters at Beaufort, South Carolina. The letter...
Dates: 1862-1865

C.J. Gray Grafton Scarlet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0590
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 July 2015; various photographs of Scarlet's Marine Corps service, 1981-1984.

Dates: 2015 July 27

Natasha Sudderth Schoonover Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0544
Abstract

Natasha Suddreth Schoonover (b. 1978), of Boone, North Carolina, served in the United States Army National Guard from 1995 until 2005.

The collection includes an oral history transcript and digitized newspaper articles.

Dates: 1995-2005

Norma Schrader Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0379
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 February 2007; a scrapbook documenting Schrader's time with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), undated; various certificates, 2013-2020; garrison cap with insignia; a photograph of Schrader, undated; a copy of a newspaper article titled, "The Role of the Chief Petty Officer in the Modern Navy," Naval Institute Proceedings, April 1957; garrison cap;award; photograph; chief warrant officer charge book.

Dates: 1957-2020

Walta Mae Schreiber Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0207
Content Description

The collection includes a Navy Nurse Corps officer's service hat, blue uniform, cape, and garrison cap, circa 1944; photocopied certificate of the Navy Service dated 1947; WW2 Ribbon.

Dates: 1944-1947

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

Mildred Curtis Scott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0092
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Scott's Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various military papers, June-December 1945.

Dates: 1943-1999

Ellen L. Scott Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0380
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of seven letters written to her parents in Johnson City, Tennessee. In the letters, Scott discusses military life at the various bases at which she was assigned as well as her job responsibilities. The last letter indicates that she had left the WAC and was living in Gadsden, Alabama with her husband Bill who was serving in the Army Air Force.

Dates: 1943-1945

Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0331
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 September 2005; undated speech written by Elsie about her life story including living in Stockton, California and moving to China in 1931, joining the Chinese Red Cross during WWII, and subsequent events until 1946 when she left her family in China and moved back to the United States; photographs of Elsie during her service the Chinese Medical Relief Corps, circa 1939-1946.

Dates: 1931, 1946, 2005

Eleanor Elizabeth House Selzo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0267
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1943-1947

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

Marie S. Senzig Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0549
Abstract

Marie Senzig (b. 1957) served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1980 to 2008.

The collection includes a 2013 August 16 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2013 August 16

Oklahoma American Red Cross Canteen Service Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0720
Content Description

The collection includes an 116 page leather scrapbook documenting the service of the Oklahoma County American Red Cross Canteen during World War I. Materials included in the scrapbook are 60 photographs, various ephemera, 16 images clipped from various magazines, and multiple newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1918-1919

Ruth and James Paul Shadewaldt Correpsondence

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0352
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944 February-1945 April

Fern Lucille Shaferly Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0266
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1943-1946

Elizabeth Shamburger Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0051
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 March 1999.

Dates: 1999 March 15

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

Ruth Shaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0226
Content Description The collection includes various Correspondence; interviews and news releases; military papers; publications; newspaper clippings; poems; scrapbook; and photographs. Publications include: WAAC/WAC/Army Printed Material, circa 1942-1945: pamphlet 155 WAC Jobs, 1943; pamphlet Guide for the Operation of Block Leader Service, 1943; pamphlet Physical Examinations of Personnel of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, 1943; pamphlet Tentative WAAC Drill Regulations, circa 1942-1943; pamphlet...
Dates: 1942-1951, 1963-1966, 1997

Blanche Sheaffer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0285
Content Description

This collection includes Correspondence, 1943-1945; Military papers, 1946; Miscellaneous Printed Materials; Newspaper Clippings,1945; photograph; Matchbooks; Red Cross Patch; VFW Pin.

Dates: 1943-1946

Davetter Shepard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0172
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 December 2000; portrait photograph of Shepard in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943.

Dates: circa 1943-2000

Ruby Morgan Sheridan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0075
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 May 1999; various photographs of Sheridan’s Army Special Services civilian employee, 1943-1946.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Helen Shoobridge Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0473
Abstract

Helen Shoobridge served in the United States' Women's Army Corps [WAC] during World War Two in the United States, New Guinea, and the Philippines.

The collection includes a 2004 December oral history transcript.

Dates: 2004 December

Mary Ellen Shugart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0583
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 28 April 2015; 3 magazine publications, December 1993-November 2011; various scanned photographs, 1964-1970.

Dates: circa 1964-2015

Elizabeth Simpson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0205
Content Description

Papers; postcards; photographs; and artifacts.

Dates: 1942-1946

Cheryl L. Sizer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0543
Abstract

Cheryl Sizer (b. 1964), of Morgantown, West Virginia, served in the United States Air Force Band from 1990 until 2010.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, photographs, compact discs, and a DVD.

Dates: 1990-2010

Agnes C. M. Sliter Rodgers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0097
Content Description

The collection includes Naval Discharge and Enrollment papers, 24 September 1918-31 December 1920; 2 photographs of Rodger's United States Naval Reserve Yeomanette, 1918-1919.

Dates: circa 1918 to 1920

Lucy Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0081
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 May 1999; a photograph of Smith in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Margaret Chamberlin Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0349
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 June 2006; various photographs of Smith's Women AirForce Service Pilots (WASP) service, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944, 2006

Margaret Marian Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0036
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 February 1999; a spruce green uniform with white seersucker shirt, along with jacket and skirt; a spruce green bell crown hat with USMC device; a photograph of Smith in uniform, circa 1945-1946.

Dates: circa 1945-1999

Sheila K. Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0317
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 January 2005; various photographs of Smith during her British Women's Royal Air Force (RAF) and as a model, circa 1943, undated.

Dates: 1942-1946, 2005

Marcia Jones Snow Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0600
Content Description

This collection includes December 2015 oral history transcript; copies of photographs; and Vietnamese safe conduct pass.

Dates: 1965-1972, 1977-1981, 2015