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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 642 Collections and/or Records:

M. A. Lincoln Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0304
Scope and Contents

Two 1917 letters describe Lincoln's desire to return home in the fall of 1917 to join the U.S. Army and her fears that she will not return in time to secure a favorable post.

Dates: 1917 July-August

Rebecca Ann Lloyd Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0346
Content Description

April 2006 oral history transcript; Buttons; Cap devices (2); Dog tags; Japanese pin and spoon; Nametags; National Defense medal and ribbon; Pin-on ranks: first lieutenant; major; lieutenant colonel; Plaques (oversize Box 3);Wooden box with United States Navy seal and dates of service engraved; and 1650 slides of Japan, Taipei, Thailand, and the Philippines; taken 1963-1964.

Dates: 1963-1964, 2006

Lunary Love Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0162
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 April 2000.

Dates: 2000 April 5

Candace Lucas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0573
Content Description

This collection includes December 2014 oral history transcript and photographs.

Dates: 2006-2014

Henrietta Clodfelter Lucke Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0085
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 May 1999; a New York Times article titled, "New Army Nurses Depart for Camp"; various photographs of Lucke during and after serving with the Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines and Tokyo, 1945-1946.

Dates: 1944-1999

Nell Smith Lutz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0160
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 March 2003; various photographs of Lutz's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency (WAVES) Navy, 1943-1945; personal correspondence during her WAVES service, 1943-1944, along with Navy papers and newspaper clippings, 1943-2003; DVD video interview by Bob Gaines "The Vanishing Generation."

Dates: circa 1943-2003

Joan Lyle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0396
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 May 2007; various photocopies of newspaper clippings and photographs, circa 1942-1951; various certificates from her time with the Army Air Force, 1944 and 1950.

Dates: circa 1942-1951, 2007

Sylvia Lynch Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0369
Content Description

This collection includes four letters written by Lynch from Manila, Philippines in August and September, 1945. Lynch discusses conditions in Manila, V-J day, and predictions on when she will be discharged from the WAC.

Dates: 1945 August 25-1945 October 03

Janet MacCubbin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0463
Content Description

The collection includes a 14 May 2009 oral history transcript; a portrait photograph of MacCubbin in American Red Cross military welfare winter uniform with cap, circa 1941.

Dates: circa 1941, 2009

Bridgid Kathleen MacSeoin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0605
Scope and Contents

Included in this collection are military handbooks, artifacts, and uniforms.

Dates: 1981-2006

Betty Magnusson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0341
Scope and Contents Letters from Magnusson to a friend at home in Duluth, Minnesota, chiefly document Magnusson's service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in Iowa, Virginia, and France. Letters from Fort Des Moines describe WAC uniforms; drills, including a gas mask drill; WAC facilities and buildings; and social activities at the fort and in Des Moines. Letters from Newport News detail Magnusson's perspective on the South and southerners; the reaction of male soldiers and civilians to the WACs; entertainment,...
Dates: 1943-1945

Linda Morgan Maini Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0406
Content Description

Linda Morgan Maini (b. 1943) of Buffalo, New York, and Cleveland, Ohio, served in the American Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) from 1965 to 1969.

This collection includes a 8 March 2008 oral history transcript; newspaper articles concerning Linda Morgan Maini's service in the Red Cross, circa 1967-1968. Copy of Red Cross unit including Linda.

Dates: 1967 November 30- 2008 March 03

Joycestane Brant Malcolm Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0126
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; a photograph of Malcolm in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) uniform, circa 1954.

Dates: circa 1954-1999

Rose Elaine Male Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0231
Content Description

The collection includes 2 folders of correspondence from Rose Male to her family in Schenectady, New York, December 1944-February 1946.

Dates: 1944 December-1946 February

Heather L. McKay Mallory Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0563
Content Description

This collection includes May 2014 oral history transcript; photographs; a Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1)sticker; a copy of January-March 2009 Marines magazine; and a Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform.

Dates: 2008-2009, 2014

Naomi Peers Malone Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0519
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 May 2011; various scanned photographs, circa 1953 and 1957.

Dates: 1953-1954; 2011

Jamie Marshall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0206
Content Description

7 folders of personal correspondence 1943-1945; oil ration coupons, 1943; Houston Lighting and Power Comp. Employee documents for Henry Marshall; Newspaper article photocopy dated Friday, October 20,1944: an editorial from the Stars and Stripes titled" Don't Get Chummy with Jerry".

Dates: 1943-1945

Ruth Mildred Marshburn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0227
Content Description

The collection includes a scrapbook, 1944-1946, 1958; Insignia Patches, circa 1944-1946; WAVES 25th National Convention Charm, 1967.

Dates: 1944-1967

Norma Martell Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0072
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 30 April 1999.

Dates: 1999 April 30

Nicolette Petrone Martinez Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0251
Content Description

The collection includes a 6 March 2002 oral history transcript; an official photograph of Martinez in Navy summer white uniform, circa 1992; a photograph of Martinez posing outside a building, circa 1992; photograph of her posing with Marine Corporal, circa 1994; personal correspondence to mother, circa 1992; a copy of Navy leave and earnings statements, 1992; a Certificate for Crossing Equator located in WVPH Oversize Box 2, circa 1992.

Dates: 1992-2002

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

Mary Haynsworth Mathews Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0119
Scope and Contents

Mary Haynsworth Mathews was born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1916. She served with the American Red Cross in England, France, and Germany from 1942 to 1946. Included in this collection are an oral history and photographs.

Dates: 1944-1999

Audrey Knyrim Mattern Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0043
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 December 1999; various photographs of Mattern's Marine Corps Women's Reserve service, 1943-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Ruth White Matthews Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0089
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Matthews service with the Red Cross in Okinawa, Japan; a scrapbook; a pictorial review of Red Cross in Japan, January 1946; a booklet titled "Jones Cove Road Memories and Stories," December 2004; an oral history transcript, 2 June 1999.

Dates: 1945-1999

Virginia Gilbert Mattson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0014
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 January 1999; 2 Navy WAVES publications, 1946; a photograph of Mattson in uniform, circa 1941-1945; a victory medal; an American Campaign medal.

Dates: circa 1941-1999

Jill Corbusier Mayer Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0557
Abstract

Jill Corbusier Mayer (b. 1945), of Yonkers, New York, served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1966 to 1976, and the United States Navy Reserve from 1976 to 1978.

The collection includes a 2013 November 3 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2013 November 3

Chely McAninch Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0497
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 August 2010.

Dates: 2010 August 9

Fannie Griffin McClendon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0659
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 July 2019; scanned photographs of McClendon's time in the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1951.

Dates: 1942-1951

Bertha Nichols McClure Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0478
Abstract

Bertha "Nicki" Nichols McClure (b. 1921) of Greensboro, North Carolina served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) during World War II and the Korean War. During World War II she was stationed at Guam, Iwo Jima, and Saipan during combat operations in the Pacific.

The collection includes a 2010 February 19 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2010 February 19

Bernice B. McCormack Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0161
Content Description

The collection includes an overseas duty ribbon; Army Nurse Corps brown/white striped seersucker laced cap; olive drab garrison cap, includes gold/.black piping of rank and caduceus, circa 1943; McCormack's diary, 1942-1944; military papers, including newspaper clippings, of Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1948; memoir of WWII service, 2000.

Dates: 1942-2000

Shirley McCorquodale Lyle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0116
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 November 1999; various photographs of Lyle's Army Nurse Corps service, 1943-1955.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Rachel Summers McGee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0016
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 January 1999; various photographs of McGee during her service, circa 1942 and undated; 1 newspaper clipping featuring McGee, undated; 2 pages from "Army Life" magazine, May 1943; a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps summer khaki uniform with leather pocketbook.

Dates: circa 1942-1943

Jeanne M. McGovern Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0163
Content Description Woman's Army Corps olive drab officer's battledress jacket with epaulets with captain's bars and"United States" collar device, and three service stripes indicating thirty months of overseas service; OS Box 2 Contains Newspaper Article entitled;"National Director Hobby Sees First WAAC Full Dress Parade" Des Moines Tribune, Iowa 1942; lapel and collar insignia; ribbons and bronze stars; Original newspaper from 1945 for the United States Armed forces in Switzerland; Original Chicago newspaper...
Dates: 1944-1945

Jessie E. McIntyre Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0237
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2002; copy of the statements from Franz Ziereis, a previous commander of Concentration Camps; photograph copy of an Army report from a concentration camp at Gosen #1, in the vicinity of Mauthausen detailing nationality, health conditions, numbers of the prisoners with detailed conditions of the camp when evacuated on May 14, 1945. Black and white photocopied photographs of the deceased prisoners in piles as the Army found them...
Dates: 1943-1945

Karen McKay Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0592
Abstract

Karen McKay (b. 1941), of Crete, Nebraska, served as a public information officer in the Adjutant General's Corps in the United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1967-1970 and the United States Army Reserve from 1970-1994.

The collection includes a 2015 August 10 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2015 August 10

Judy McKinnon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0249
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2001; a portrait photograph of McKinnon in summer uniform, circa 1944.

Dates: 1944-2001

Rosetta McMahon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0393
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 2007; scan of portrait photograph of McMahon in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) uniform, circa 1945.

Dates: 1945, 2007

Margaret J. McNulty Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0558
Content Description This collection includes four photograph albums of Army and Air Force Nurse Margaret McNulty. The albums contain personal photographs and postcards of post-World War II Europe and Washington D.C. Most of the photographs document McNulty's life in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. The albums include photographs and ephemera from England; Scotland; France; Switzerland; Italy; Holland; Belgium; Austria; Germany; Monaco; and the Vatican City as well as Washington D.C. and the Arlington...
Dates: circa 1940s-1950s

Maggie V. McPherson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0123
Scope and Contents

The collection includes printed materials; including newsletters; booklets; yearbooks; and clippings especially from her time in Korea. Also, it includes 3 scrapbooks that document McPherson's Red Cross service, 1947-1959; additional scrapbook of club service at Double Five, Osan, Korea, 1959-1960.

Dates: 1943-1976