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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 643 Collections and/or Records:

Margaret Winston Henry Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0435
Content Description Margaret Winston Henry of Springdale, West Virginia, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) as a storekeeper during World War II. This collection includes 58 letters and one greeting card; dated May to December,1944.They are love letters sent by Henry to Pharmacy Mate Dallas S. Chambers at the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Brooklyn,New York. The letters focus primarily on Henry's and Chambers' relationship but...
Dates: 1944

Laura Henry Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0458
Scope and Contents

The Laura Henry Scrapbook has one scrapbook and three separate pages of Mount Holyoke Songs. The scrapbook has a wooden cover with images of a United States navy ship on it. It has approximately 58 pages and contains newspaper clippings, cards, menus from military base holiday lunches, and Laura Henry's official military identification cards.

Dates: 1944-1945; Other: Date acquired: 03/10/2009

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

Lillie M. Henson Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0068
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 April 1999.

Dates: 1999 April 24

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

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

Anne Elisabeth Heyer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0320
Scope and Contents The collection includes various correspondence, military material, photographs, military insignia, and other artifacts document Anne Elisabeth "Betty" Heyer's service in the WAAC and WAC between 1942 and 1945. Lengthy letters to family members describe her training in the United States and her subsequent service in the Pacific Theater as a photography repair technician. Overseas letters document her observation of New Guinea and the Philippines. Printed military material reflects Heyer's...
Dates: 1942-1946 and undated

Edith O'Neill Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0321
Content Description

The letter is dated 14 October, 1918. O'Neill, writing from Bresse, France, describes the difficulties in finding lodging; the character of the town and people of Bresse; exchanging currency; and serving "cocoa; and coffee and soda water; ice cream and cakes" to and talking with with United States soldiers.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Elizabeth C. Hickcox Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0067
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 April 1999; various photographs of Hickcox’s Navy WAVES service, circa 1944; various postcards with pictures of U.S. Naval Training School buildings, undated.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Mildred A. Higgins Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0724
Abstract Mildred A. Higgins served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II. She was stationed at the 228th Station Hospital in Sherburne, England. She returned to the United States in September 1945 and later worked at the Veterans Hospital in Rutland Heights, Massachusetts.The collection includes correspondence among Higgins and her family after returning to the United States from England, 1946-1950; a slip of sailing report on the Queen Elizabeth arriving in New York after...
Dates: 1945-1950

Jean Wrenn Higgins Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0025
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 January 1999.

Dates: 1999 January 26

Valeria F. Hilgart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0158
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 March 2000; a photograph of Hilgart's Marine Corps service, 1980.

Dates: circa 1980-2000

Lucile Hill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0401
Content Description

Photographs and letter. This collection has not been digitized.

Dates: 1942-1945

Mary J. Hill Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0422
Scope and Contents

This collection contains eight letters written by Hill and one by her huysband Sgt. Willis Hill to their daughters Ella and Josephine. The letters contain information about the life of a Civil War nurse, the feelings of loneliness and sorry at being seperated from her family, and the soliders and staff she knew at the hospital.

Dates: 1865; Other: Date acquired: 03/09/2008

Nancy Riddle Hinchliffe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0064
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 1999; various military papers from Hinchliffe's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; copies of "The Flyer: Publication Dedicated to the Service of Selfridge Field Personnel," publication, 13 May-5 August 1943; various personal papers, 1944-1945; various photographs of Hinchliffe during her service, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Mary (Larry) Young Hines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0591
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 August 2015; scans of photographs of Hines American Red Cross service, 1968-69.

Dates: circa 1968 to 1969

Frances M. Hobbins Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0054
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 March 1999; various photographs of Hobbins WAVES service and with Dorion Tam, a man she "Freed to Fight" in Hawaii, 1945-1997.

Dates: circa 1945 - 1999

Margery Holben Moore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0656
Scope and Contents

This collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, digital interview, logbooks, military papers, and uniform (1 jacket, 2 skirts, and 1 beret).

Dates: 2000-2001

Mabel R. Holmes Record Book

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0414
Abstract

Mabel R. Holmes served in the United States Army Nurse Corps during World War I. Holmes was given the assignment as Chief Army Nurse on September 19, 1918. On July 7, 1919, she worked at the Base Hospital at Camp Lee in Virginia.

Dates: 1918; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2007

Ava Caudle Honeycutt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0438
Content Description

Ava Honeycutt of Anson County, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during WWII.

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 November 2008; Hand-colored portrait photograph of Ava Caudle Honeycutt,circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1940s - 2008 November 22

Gail S. Enter Horn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0514
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 April 2011; "Diamond in the Ruff" class 4029 flag circa 1993-1994; graduation invitation; photographs; cd of photographs.

Dates: 1994-2011

Mary Laura Horner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0477
Abstract

Mary Laura Horner served in the U.S. Navy WAVES during World War II. Horner attended boot camp at the U.S. Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York. The collection includes her recruitment papers and documents of religious services held at the Training School.

Dates: 1943 July 29 to 1943 August 1

Evelyn E. Horton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0381
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, military papers, photographs, and writings by Evelyn Horton. Most of the correspondence is written by Evelyn to her parents back home in Massachusetts. However, there are a few letters from WAC friends and one letter from her brother. The photographs include pictures from before Evelyn joined the WAC; photographs of her in uniform at Camp Pickett, Virginia; Evelyn costumed as "Miss Liberty" for the U.S. Army musical revue Sandsations of 1944; other...
Dates: 1925-1948

Joan R. Kammer Horton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0155
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 December 2000; various photographs of Horton during her service and wedding, 1953-1957; newspaper clipping copies of Horton's sharpshooter abilities, 1954-1956; navy blue marine service cap; green cap; green blouse with 2 green light weight jackets; olive green neck tie; green cloth wallet; green lined hooded trench coat.

Dates: 1953-2000

Agnes "Scottie" Hudson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0339
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an interview, textiles, and photographs.

Dates: Other: 1961 - 2008

Anne Huheey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0314
Scope and Contents Letters to family and friends chiefly document Anne Huheey's service with the American Expeditionary Forces in the spring of 1919. Repeated themes include news of family and friends, both those at home and other nurses serving overseas; the weather; various illnesses; and diversions such as horseback riding and tennis. Hospital wards and patients are occasionally mentioned.Also included are letters from friends serving overseas. Letters from her female friends describe a dance;...
Dates: 1918-1919

Marthalou Hunter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0105
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various photographs of Hunter during her service for Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; various poetry written by Hunter.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Yardley Nelson Hunter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0503
Content Description

Dr. Yardley Nelson Hunter (b. 1953), of Buffalo, New York, served as an officer in public relations in the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard from 1975 through 1997. Hunter was one of the first female officers to enter the Air Force Academy.

This collection includes October 2010 oral history transcript; a name tag from the Air Force Academy.

Dates: circa 1970s - 2010

Portia Hunter Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0268
Content Description

This collection includes Correspondence from Hunter to her brother, January 1944 to March 1945; Correspondence to Evelyn Crick Hunter from her siblings Don and Genny Crick. SEE ALSO the Genevieve Crick collection.

Dates: 1944-1945

Grace Illman Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0338
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 January 2006.

Dates: 2006 January 17

Henrietta Stevenson Ingram Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0030
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of Ingram while stationed at Douglas Army Air Force Base, AZ, March 1944; an oral history transcript, 3 February 1999.

Dates: 1944-1999

Paula Silverman Isenberg Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0507
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 February 2011.

Dates: 2011 February 2

Marjorie L. Jackson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0342
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 123 letters written by Jackson to her fiance, Henry Heusinkveld, from February through August 1945, while Jackson was stationed in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and later, Louisville, Kentucky. While the letters contain some information on Jackson's day-to-day life as a WAC, they focus primarily on the couple's personal relationship.

Dates: 1945

M.V. Ginger Jacocks Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0518
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 May 2011; various scanned photographs, circa 1990-1997.

Dates: 1990-2011

Patsy James Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0394
Content Description

The collection includes a June 1944 letter addressed to James' mother in Valley Park, Missouri. James writes about her experiences taking the train and the bus to get to the base at Algiers.

Dates: 1944 June

Jean Jack and Dorothy Volkert Collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: WV 0371

Arlene Chalifoux Jeffers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0124
Content Description

Textile Box contains MP Armband; Daisy Mae Hat; Chamois Scarf; Overseas Cap, 1942-1946.

Dates: 1942-1946

Vera Rackley Jenkins Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0076
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 May 1999.

Dates: 1999 May 14

Leona "Evelyn" Jensen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0368
Abstract

Leona "Evelyn" Jensen joined the United States Navy WAVES in the summer of 1944. She worked in a United States naval hospital located in Seattle, Washington during World War II. Her scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, U.S. naval hospital newspapers called The Stethoscope, letters, postcards, patient tags, and drawings.

Dates: 1945; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/2006

Shirley F. John Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0248
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 February 2002; various photographs of John's in her forest green Marines uniform, circa 1954-1955.

Dates: 1954-2002

Carol Alban Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0413
Content Description Carol A. Johnson (1944-2022), of Columbus, Ohio, served in the United States Women's Army Corps from 1964 till 1968. She served in the office of the secretary of the army during the Vietnamese Tet Offensive. This collection includes 1 May 2008 oral history transcript; program and paperwork for the Star Spangled Pageant, a touring exhibit presenting the history of women's association with the United States Army, circa 1967; copy of the Army Commendation Medal with letter, circa...
Dates: 1966-2008

Carol Lorraine Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0261
Content Description

Two folders and a scrapbook. The scrapbook includes several brochures from Japan and Utah, letters from the Red Cross, and letters written to her mother. A manila folder includes various clippings from where Johnson was stationed and the second manila folder contains paperwork for a recommendation from a Red Cross Field Director, along with letters from her mother and possibly a gentleman who was her brother and various newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1943-1951

Juanita J Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0239
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 January 2002; a copy of Johnson's Report of Separation from the Armed Forces of the United States, 31 August 1954.

Dates: 1954-2002

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

Mildred Smith Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0192
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 December 2000; a photograph, circa 2000.

Dates: 1954-1961

Paula J. Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0220
Content Description

The collection includes 3 photograph copies of Johnson in uniform during her training in Washington, D.C., circa 1952; 3 photograph copies of Johnson's husband, Gene, circa 1953; an 8 June 2001 oral history transcript.

Dates: circa 1952-1953