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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 643 Collections and/or Records:

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

Effie Sparrow Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0179
Content Description

The collection includes Army discharge paperwork, 1945; various photographs of Sparrow during her service, 1942-1945.

Dates: 1942-1945

Glennette Page Staloch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0305
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript with accompanying video tape of interview, undated.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Mary Galster Layton Starkey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0614
Content Description

This collection includes June 2016 oral history transcript and copies and originals of photographs and military papers.

Dates: 1969-2016

Ellen Brown Steel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0154
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Steel's Women's Army Corps (WAC) service and retirement, 1950-1969; textiles include a uniform jacket without the brass, uniform skirt and uniform jacket, 1949-1969.

Dates: circa 1949-1969

Ruth M. Strawn Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0423
Scope and Contents This collection consists of eight personal letters from Strawn to Mrs. and/or Mr. Webster of West Covington, Kentucky, and one letter from Strawn's friend Lauretta to her parents.These letters talk about the active life she enjoyed with Lauretta and their fellow WACs off-duty. She also described the places she, Lauretta, and her parents travelled to, discussed her brief stay in the base hospital whlie undergoing surgery for a hernia, and lastly her excitement that the end of the...
Dates: 1945-1946; Other: Date acquired: 04/14/2008

Therese Strohmer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0441
Abstract Therese Strohmer (b. 1962) of West Branch, Michigan, served in the United States Air Force from 1980-1986 as a Russian Cryptologic Linguist, performance evaluator, and instructor for a classified National Security Agency system. This collection includes January 2009 oral history transcript; photographs; letters; autographed photograph of WASPS; Copies of military records; Goodfellow Air Gorce Base Unofficial Directory and Guide, 1981; The Airmen of Lackland Airforce Base Basic...
Dates: 1977-2009

The Inez Stroud Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0009
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Stroud while serving in the Women's Army Corps, 1943-1969; a copy of 12 pages from a Stroud scrapbook which include newspaper clippings, circa 1940s; various papers from her WAC duties; a WAC Handbook for the Fort Des Moines Training Center, undated; a brief biography of Stroud used at her memorial service, November 1994; 3 loose sheets with song lyrics, undated.

Dates: circa 1943 - 1994

Clara Fredere Sullivan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0450
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an album of photographs taken during Clara's time in the Army Nurse Corps, a copy of handwritten reminiscences, a copy of her certificate of identity from the War Department, and a medical kit.

Dates: 1918-1919

Dorothy R. Collins Sullivan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0187
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2004; various photographs of Sullivan's Women's Army Corps service, circa 1944; 2 Women's Army Corps overseas garrison caps located in textile box.

Dates: 1944-2004

Lillian Sutter Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0350
Content Description

This letter is dated 20 June, 1945. In it Sutter discusses the overseas voyage in which she stopped in Australia and Calcutta, India. She writes about her impressions of Calcutta and her living conditions and the hospital at her posting in Assam, India. Sutter also describes the typhoid ward to which she is assigned, the chaplain at the post, and her reaction to V-E Day.

Dates: 1945 June 20

Tricia Sutter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0546
Abstract

Tricia Sutter (b. 1963), of Carteret, New Jersey, served in the United States Coast Guard from 1985 until 1989.

The collection includes a 2013 March 23 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2013 March 23

Mary L. Sutton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0468
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 July 2009; a formal hand-tinted portrait photograph of Sutton in Women's Army Corps olive drab service shirtwaist, circa 1945; a photograph of Sutton standing in uniform at the day room of Fort Des Moines, Iowa; a photograph of Sutton in uniform with her brother, husband, and husband's brother, circa 1945.

Dates: circa 1945, 2009

Grace Swank Alexander Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0018
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 January 1999.

Dates: 1999 January 20

June Thomas Swearengin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0565
Content Description

This collection includes June 2014 oral history transcript; copies of newspaper clippings; and copy of her book "The Question: Give up or Get up?"

Dates: 2013-2014

Cathy Illman Sykes Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0340
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 January 2006.

Dates: 2006 January 25

Donna Barr Tabor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0521
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 May 2011; 9 various scanned photographs while with the 82nd Airborne Division and with her fiancé, Edward, circa 1980.

Dates: 1980-2011

Elizabeth Taggart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0542
Abstract

Elizabeth Pedro Taggart (b. 1962), of South Korea, served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1982 to 1991 and the United States Navy Reserve from 1991-2010.

The collection includes an oral history transcript and various photographs.

Dates: 1982-1991

Flora V. Taylor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0527
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 January 2012; a Coast Guard pin.

Dates: 1980s-2012

Adeline Ledesma Teague Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0241
Scope and Contents

The collection includes various photographs of Teague during her Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) work, circa 1945-1946; a Pace publication (copy) from Los Angeles City College, Col. 5, No. 2, October 1942; an oral history transcript, 17 January 2002.

Dates: 1942-2002

Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0197
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1942-1955

Molly Thavenet Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0429
Scope and Contents The scrapbook contains correspondence, ephemera, photographs, newsletters, official military communications and records, and clippings primarily related to Thavenet's service in the WAAC and WAC, primarily with the Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1945.The correspondence is from Thavenet to her family describing her experiences in the service. There are also letters to Thavenet from family and friends from home and fellow WACs, as well as post-war correspondence up to 1950. Included...
Dates: 1940-1950

Lorna W. Thigpen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0004
Content Description

The collection includes a certificate, 4 December 1945; a photograph of Thigpen, undated; various letters of correspondence, May 1944-August 1945.

Dates: circa 1944 - 1945

Marjorie S. Thompson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0337
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944, 1994

Roberta Wooddell House and Nancy Wooddell Thornton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0363
Scope and Contents Folder one contains photographs of Roberta and Nancy as well as a few family photographs. The photographs also include publicity photographs of Roberta as a WAAC at Luke Field, Arizona and Chandler, Arizona.Folder two contains ten letters written by both Roberta and Nancy to their Mother, Aunt May and Grandmother. These letters discuss general news, such as Nancy's reaction to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death, and updates on their lives in the military. There is also...
Dates: 1941-1946; Other: Date acquired: 08/11/2006

Shirley M. Tillson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0302
Scope and Contents Letters, chiefly from Port Blakely, Washington, document Tillson's daily life with the WAVES. Subjects include her dates and social activities, particularly the USO (United Service Organization), a Women's Service Club, dances, and athletics; her family; the status of the war, including the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the German surrender; WAVES uniforms and uniform regulations; and her work as a radio operator. Tillson writes in detail about the opportunities the navy provides and about...
Dates: 1945

Katharine W. Toll Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0293
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1929-1989 and undated

Frances Stanley Trembath Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0492
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1942-1946; Other: Date acquired: 06/02/2010

Paula K. Jackan Trivette Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0512
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 April 2011; photographs and press clippings about Trivette; a student nurse cap.

Dates: 1987-2011

Jennie Trueman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0308
Scope and Contents

The collection contains hymn books for the Women's Auxiliary Forces, a journal, a commemorative photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, a hat device, and a medal.

Dates: 1944

Frances Bradsher Turner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0236
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2002; various photographs of Frances' Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1971; a resume documenting rank, awards and service in Army.

Dates: 1951-1973

Mary L. Turner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0254
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Turner's travels and her family, circa 1952-1999; various newspaper articles written by Tuner for Kernersville News, circa 1992-2002; an article titled "Dr. and Mrs. James Turner mixed Military and Medical Careers," Fifty Plus News, November 1991.

Dates: circa 1952-1999

Mildred Parish Turton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0144
Content Description

The collection includes paperwork for Army Nurse Discharge, 21 August 1952.

Dates: 1952 August 21

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

United States Enlisted Woman's World War I Service Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0344
Abstract

This photograph album contains pictures predominately of one United States enlisted woman during World War I as she travels through France. There are photographs of other enlisted members as well as a captioned photograph of a ship which they likely traveled on to Scotland.

Dates: 1917-1918; Other: Date acquired: 2010

Unknown WAAC Diary Collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: WV 0330

Unknown WWII U.S. Army Nurse Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0265
Scope and Contents

This diary was written from 1942-1945 by an unknown nurse in the Army Nurse Corps. She served at a hospital in Tehran, Iran.

Dates: 1942-1945

Virginia Young Van Dongen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0015
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 November 1999; various photographs of van Dongen’s SPAR’s service, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1944 - 1945

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

Kathryn M. Vannauker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0370
Content Description

This collection includes twenty letters written from Fort Des Moines and Fort Oglethorpe dated September 1942 - March 1944.

Dates: 1942 September 18-1944 March 06

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

Sandra L. Venegoni Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0481
Abstract

Sandra Venegoni (b. 1940), of St. Louis, Missouri served in the United States Army Reserve and United States Army Nurse Corps from 1972 until 1995.

The collection includes a 2010 March 16 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2010 March 16

Jean Jack and Dorothy Volkert Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0371
Content Description

The collection includes 2 copies of Victory Mail, 1 and 20 November 1942; a photograph from Italy, May 1944.

Dates: 1942-1944

Unknown WAAC Diary Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0330
Content Description

The collection includes a diary of an unidentified Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) officer, 1942.

Dates: 1942 August-November