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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 642 Collections and/or Records:

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

Mary Angelyn Giles Kelly Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0006
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of Kelly's Coast Guard SPARS service, circa 1944-1945; newspaper publication featuring Kelly with Tennessee SPARS, undated.

Dates: circa 1944 - 1946

Margaret Wyatte Glennon Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0165
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 May 2000.

Dates: 2000 May 12

Ellen Harris Huckabee Gobbell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0178
Content Description

The collection includes various military papers from Gobbell's WAVES service, 1942-1949; a photograph of Gobbell in uniform, circa 1947; various newspaper clippings, including her obituary, 1995 and undated.

Dates: 1942-2000

Barbara E. Gove Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0152
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 December 2000; various photographs; various certificates; various personal papers, including biographical; a male Marine Corps dress uniform, 2000s.

Dates: 1954-2000

Adele A. Graham Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0470
Abstract

Adele A. Graham (b. 1937), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served in the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve and United States Marines Corps Reserve from 1959-1990.

The collection includes a 2009 July 29 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2009 July 29

Margaret Grantham Sherry Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0005
Content Description

The collection includes 1 photograph of Squadron 13A-Main Base Corpus Christi, Texas.

Dates: circa 1944

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

Nina M. Greenlee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0041
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, February 1999; 9 military pins; various military papers, 1948-1958; various personal papers, 1954-1980; photographs of Greenlee in England; miscellaneous correspondence.

Dates: circa 1948-1999

Sarah B. Greenlee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0150
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 February 2000; portrait photograph of Greenlee in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1944; copy of newspaper clipping, 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-2000

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

Patricia Tew Gregory Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0506
Content Description

Patricia Tew Gregory (b. 1967), of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Public Affairs Officer in the United States Army from 1988-1996.

This collection includes 5 February 2011 oral history transcript; scan of photograph.

Dates: 2011 February 5

Dorothy Farrington Gribble Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0035
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 1999; various photographs of Gribble's service with the Women's Army Corps and Auxiliary Corps, April 1943-December 1944; newspaper article from Kenersville News, 11 November 1995.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Vera Keen Griffin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0238
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 January 2002; various copies of correspondence, 16 May 1943 and 28 May 1943; 2 photograph copies of Griffin marching with her regiment, undated; a photograph of Griffin with friends and family on her wedding day, undated; a photograph copy of Griffin's mother marching in Ewell Veterans parade, circa 1967-1968.

Dates: 1941-1967

Margaret Griffin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0372
Content Description

This collection includes the 1949 United States Navy publication United States Submarine Losses; the 1947 book While So Serving; a December 1944 copy of The American; a 17 May;1945 Navy Department press release The United States Franklin Comes Home; copies of The Service Book of Scripture and Prayer and A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors; and The New Testament; and a Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ribbon pin.

Dates: 1941-1949

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

Julia Hill Gunn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0060
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 April 1999; various letters of correspondence, October 1945-October 1947; various photographs of Gunn's Navy WAVES service, circa 1945.

Dates: circa 1945-1999

Renee L. Gurley Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0532
Abstract

Renee L. Gurley (1952-2012), of High Point, North Carolina, served in the United States Air Force from 1975 to 1995.

The collection includes a 2012 May oral history transcript.

Dates: 2012 May 7

Blanche Holt Gwyn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0031
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 4 February 1999; a photograph of Gwyn in WAVES uniform, 1943; blue cord uniform jacket and matching skirt, circa 1950s; Navy uniform jacket and skirt, circa 1950s; black tie; a hat.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Blanche Woolard Haggard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0040
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 February 1999; various photographs of Haggard's service with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), 1943-1944; various military publications, including materials on the ship USS Tulagi, 1942-1943; various textiles; 10 patches and 2 cap devices.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Frances Hunt Hall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0071
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 April 1999; various photographs of Hall's WAVES service, undated; a newspaper clipping featuring Hall's overseas service, April 1946.

Dates: circa 1946-1999

Eileen E. Hallstein Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0712
Content Description The collection includes a scrapbook, 1943-1945. The album begins with a group of images of Eileen’s home life at a farm in Illinois, followed by photos from her time training as a nurse at Gardiner General Hospital in Chicago, Fort Dix, New Jersey and Camp Atterbury, Indiana. The rest of the images mainly depict her time in England: the 231st hospital buildings at Morley Hall, Norfolk, nurses posing and relaxing on the hospital grounds, nurses at drill, an interior view of an orthopedic...
Dates: 1943-1945

Robin D. Hamilton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0606
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 April 2016; a Retirement Ceremony program, 9 April 2022.

Dates: 2016-2022

Nellie May Hammond Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0223
Content Description

The collection includes a "My Life in the Service" Diary.

Dates: 1943 March 29-June 5

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

Dolores Angel Hamrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0513
Scope and Contents This collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 April 2011; photographs (circa 1955, Women Marine Baseball Practice, 2nd MC Camp's Basketball 1954-55, 11th NavDist Softball Champs 1955, Camp Del Mar, The Pala Mission Gang '55, Camp Pendleton All Marine Corps Women Champion Basketball team, Platoon 16-A Woman Recruit Battalion Parris Island SC 1954, Shoe Repair Shop, Miss Carlsbad 1955); Newspaper clippings (Camp Pendleton Basketball Champions); military papers; and a basic training...
Dates: 1954-1957, 2011

Glory Hancock Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0181
Content Description

The collection includes handwritten correspondence written by Hancock regarding conditions and the work with aiding sick and wounded soldiers, circa 1918.

Dates: circa 1918

Myrtle Otto Hanke Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0147
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 February 2000; various correspondence, 1941-1945; various newspaper clippings, 1942-1946; photographs and 16 artist color renderings of Coolangatta, Queensland/Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.

Dates: circa 1941-2000

Elaine Danforth Harmon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0359
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 August 2006; WASP songbook; portrait photograph of Elaine Harmon in 1944 in WASP A2 leather jacket with Fifinella patch and a flight helmet with goggles.

Dates: 1944, 2006

Nina Harmon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0525
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2012; various scanned photographs.

Dates: circa 1991 and 2012

Norma L. Harris Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0309
Scope and Contents

The collection contains military papers, pins and patches, programs, newsletters and newspapers from the areas where Harris served, and WAC songbooks.

Dates: 1943 - 1948

Louise Martin Harrison Uniform

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0180
Content Description

The collection includes a raincoat, circa 1951.

Dates: circa 1951

Margaret E. Hasell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0013
Content Description

The collection includes various Greeting cards, letters, and telegrams addressed to Hassell from various family members, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1945

Faith S. Hawkins Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0325
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 August 2005; various photographs of Hawkins Cadet Nurse Corps service, circa 1943 and 1946; various newspaper publications related to the Cadet Nurse Corps, March 1946 and February 1995.

Dates: 1943, 1946; 1995, 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

Bernice Isabel Heath Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0195
Content Description 20 January 2001 oral history transcript; Artifact 1 box contains dogtag; insignia and discharge pins; copy of the History of the 91st Evacuation Hospital Overseas written by Ruth Schwing head nurse, 1945; War Correspondent Broadcast transcript of Iris Carpenter from the 91st Evac Hospital, undated; 91st Research News newsletter, circa 1991; typed "unofficial diary kept by an enlisted man Shorty Reese containing the history of the 91st evac hosp from 1942-45, 2001; newspaper article on...
Dates: 1948-1964

Helen Myers and Anne Freeman Collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: WV 0464

Betty Pegg Hemphill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0235
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 4 January 2002; various photographs of Hemphill during her Women's Air Force service, circa 1950-1951.

Dates: 1949-1951

Anna Louis Henderson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0218
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of The WAC Medical Detachment graduating class Company 8 of the 21st WAC Regiment, also posing by herself and with 2 patients from the Hospital where she served 1945; Handwritten photocopied essay from 2001 on working at the Finney General Hospital in Thomasville, GA, 1945; article on the "99th WAC Hospital Company", 1945.

Dates: circa 1945, 2001

Mary Anson Hennessy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0575
Content Description

The collection includes am oral history transcript, 12 December 2014; 5 photographs of Hennessy, circa 1966-1968; a poem written by Hennessy titled "1967: Brooke Army Medical Center."

Dates: circa 1966-1968

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