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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 643 Collections and/or Records:

Gertrude McSpiritt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0156
Content Description

The collection includes a Memoir, circa 1999; School Group Presentations Speeches, circa 1999; photocopies of photograph, 1943-1945; photograph, 1999; Correspondence between McSpiritt and the Army, 1995-1996; "Air Transport Command; What Does it Signify? What Does it Mean to You? What Does the WAC Do in the ATC?;" circa 1943-1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Janet Muriel Mead Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0389
Scope and Contents

The collection contains letters written by Mead to her parents throughout her military career, as well as during the mid-1950s. Photographs in the collection include images of Meade, her friends in the WAVES and U.S. Navy, and Naval Air Station Seattle.

Dates: 1940-1955

Doris O. Melvin Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0243
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 30 January 2002.

Dates: 2002 January 30

Martha Redding Mendenhall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0087
Content Description

The collection includes an Air Navigation student workbook, December 1945; a training syllabus for Air Navigation course, December 1945; various photographs during and after Mendenhall's WAVES service, 1943-1991; a Flying Trainer handbook, May 1943; various procedure papers, undated; an oral history transcript, including audio cassette tape, 28 May 1999.

Dates: 1943-1999

Idelle Singletary Meng Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0436
Content Description

Scrapbook contains newspaper and newsletter clippings; including "WAC of the Week" columns; military documents and handbooks; photographs; small banner; letters; and ephemera including "WAC Songs" and her WAC application.

Dates: 1944

Marie E. Merrill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0250
Content Description

photocopies of photographs; Olive Drab Jacket, circa 1942-1950.

Dates: 1945-2002

Irene A. Gepfert Mertz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0517
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 May 2011 oral history transcript; 1 box, 2 scrapbooks.

Dates: 1943-1946; Other: Date acquired: 05/15/2012

Audrey Meyers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0151
Content Description

The collection includes "My Life in the Service" diary, 1944-1945; a portrait photograph of Meyers in her Women's Army Corps uniform, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-1945

Mildred Jane Doyle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0402
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of Doyle's service with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), 1944; copies of military papers related to her flying experience and training, November 1942-May 1944; copies of newspaper clippings honoring WASP's, 2000 and undated; full publications of the Stars and Stripes, a national newspaper for Military Veterans, June 1977-January 1978; an oral history transcript, 2 July 2007.

Dates: 1943-2007

Elsie Toby Miles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0121
Content Description

The collection includes a Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform, circa 1945-1962.

Dates: 1945-1962

Military Women across the Nation--MWAN Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0719
Scope and Contents The collection includes WAVES National Individual Units scrapbook, photobooks, conference and reunion publications, regional publications; WAVES National conference scrapbooks and various publications; individual collections from members who created their own scrapbooks along with newspaper clippings; WAVES/SPARS anniversary materials; miscellaneous publications; various photographs; a number of textiles from all branches of the U.S. Military; audiovisual materials; and various digitized...
Dates: 1942-2016

Bernice Moran Miller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0104
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various personal correspondence; various photographs of Miller while serving with the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Dorothy M. Miller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0198
Content Description

The collection includes a 2001 February oral history transcript; copy of Honorable Discharge Certificate, 1946; and a photograph with Miller in uniform and standing with 2 other African American Women's Army Corps (WAC), 1945.

Dates: circa 1946-2001

Virginia Miller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0208
Content Description

The collection includes a 2001 April oral history transcript; photocopies of Army Honorable Discharge and Certificate of Service, 1943 to 1945; portrait photograph of Miller in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform; photograph of Miller in dress; and photograph of Miller in Olive drap winter uniform, circa 1941 to 1944.

Dates: circa 1941-1945

Cherise Miller-March Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0622
Content Description

This collection includes CD with Photographs, August 2016 oral history transcript, and scans of photographs.

Dates: 1985-2000, 2016

Jean Comins Mitchell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0052
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 March 1999; papers related to Mitchell’s service with the Army Medical Corps, 1943-1945; various newspaper articles; various photographs of Mitchell at Fort Meade and Walter Reed, 1943-1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Luvenia Griffin Mitchell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0200
Content Description

The collection includes a 9 February 2001 oral history transcript; a photograph negative of Mitchell with Air Force Supply School class at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, circa 1952.

Dates: circa 1952-2001

Niddie Miyo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0660
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 October 2019; various scanned photographs of Miyo's Navy Reserve service, circa 2007-2014.

Dates: 2007-2019

Amie Modigh Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0480
Abstract

Amie Modigh (1933-2017), of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, served as a nurse in the United States Army Reserve 1965 to 1995. She served as commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center during Operation Desert Storm, and later retired as a colonel.

The collection includes a 2010 March 16 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2010 March 16

Aimee Nott Moore Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0077
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 May 1999. Interview completed with Vera Rackley Jenkins oral history.

Dates: 1999 May 14

Jane G. Morey Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0114
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 November 1999.

Dates: 1999 November 3

Kimberly Dawn Mozingo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0545
Content Description

This collection includes 19 March 2013 Oral History Transcript -restricted until 2038, and scanned photographs.

Dates: 1987-1998, 2013

Mary Ellen Mullan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0259
Scope and Contents

The collection includes two letter booklets written by Mullan while in basic training at Northampton, Massachusetts in September 1944.

Dates: 1944 September

Adelaide Murphy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0240
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 January 2002; various photographs of Murphy's Women's Marine Corps service, circa 1943-1945; "Let me Fight: Women's Marine Corps Reserve stamps; Buccaneer newsletter, 11 January 1945; photocopy of the Atlanta Journal front page with the United States Marine Corps cover dated June 29, 1943; official military paperwork with Adelaide's promotional rank, 1945; copy of "The Word for personal Reporting Aboard Beachland WR Barracks" detailing...
Dates: 1942-1945

Marian Murphy Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0711
Content Description The 1944 scrapbook includes photographs of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve Band at their home base of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina or on tour at Parris Island, South Carolina, Washington DC, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. These include images of concerts, rehearsals, the band on parade, the band’s tour bus, band members relaxing, a photo of the Women’s Reserve Dance Band (a swing band), photos of band director Charlotte Plummer, and more. Other items include six mimeographed concert programs for...
Dates: 1944

Nan M. Nabors Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0294
Content Description

This collection includes Correspondence, 1944-1946. Though the majority of correspondence is personal in nature it presents insights into many different aspects of the military, including the urgent need for infantry, the relationship between officers and enlisted soldiers, life as a soldier, and Nabors's experiences as a female serving in the military.

Dates: 1944-1946

Carol Nachtrab Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0404
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 February 2008; Discharge paperwork copy from the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War; typewritten memories of service in Vietnam; computer printed images from Judy Vaker Williams ANC RVN 67th Evac, circa 2008; Copy of "To Save a Life.67th Medical Group 1970-1971" brochure highlighting the history, achievements, personnel, and commendations of the United States Army's 67th Medical Group, which at the time of printing was on its fourth...
Dates: 1970-1971, 2007-2008

Mary Cugini Necko Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0094
Scope and Contents

The Mary Cugini Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, military papers, Necko's poems, newspaper clippings, souvenirs, copies of the newsletters The U.S. Marine Corps Beachhead and The Marine Corps Women's Reserve The Word, a 1999 oral history recording and transcript, and textiles.

A scrapbook from her time in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve has been digitized.

Dates: 1942-1999; Other: Date acquired: 06/17/1999

Elizabeth Neely Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0705
Content Description

The collection includes Neely's Coast Guard uniform; a garrison cap; Coast Guard formal hat; slides for Kodak carousel; Coast Guard Reservist magazine article "SPARS' Golden Moment", written by Neely in 1992; history of women in the Coast Guard script, 1989; U.S.O. program; photographs and negatives; as well as photographs of service-related documents and an oral history interview recorded in June 2021.

Dates: 1983-1991

Nancy Farrell Neubauer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0412
Content Description

The collection includes a 2008 April oral history transcript, 3 typed letters regarding Neubauer's position, Army Payroll Change Slip, newspaper clipping of Neubauer's selection as program director of the At Ease Service Club in Ascom, and member list of US Army Ascom District.

Dates: circa 1966 May-1967 July; 2008 April 26

Emily Newcity Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0427
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 September 2008.

Dates: 2008 September 8

Emma Dale Newell Love Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0090
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Newell's Women's Army Corps service, 1944; scrapbook copies; various military papers, September 1944-October 1945; an oral history transcript, 4 June 1999.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Judith Bullock Nisbet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0056
Scope and Contents Judith Bullock Nisbet was born in Red Springs, North Carolina, and served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Emergency Services-Navy) from 1942 to 1943. An oral history interview, memoir, photographs and textiles primarily document Nisbet's service during World War II. The oral history interview provides information about Nisbet's childhood in Red Springs, N.C., during the Depression, her education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, and her service as a WAVE. Prominent...
Dates: 1942-1999

Rosie Grosshans Noel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0516
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 April 2011; various scanned photographs, circa 2005.

Dates: 2005-2011

Eleanor Neeva Northcott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0063
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 April 1999; a poster with the phrase "Ah...At Last!", circa 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Sue Oliver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0728
Content Description

Oral history, photographs, clippings, and pins and devices related to Sue Oliver and her time serving in the Marine Corps.

Dates: 1969-1972 and 1978-1993

Mattie Osborne Spicer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0107
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Spicer in Women's Army Corps uniform, circa 1944; the "Ronda" newsletter with Spicer's articles.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Edna Painter Searles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0106
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Searles in Marine Corps Women's Reserve uniform, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Ethel LeBlanc Palma Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0022
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 November 1999; a booklet titled "Three Years of Change," 1942-1945; various programs and invitations, 1944; various military records including Certificate of Service, 1946; a copy of WAAC Parodies, undated; 13 photographs of Palma while stationed in New Guinea and Australia, 1943-1945; several newspaper clippings featuring Palma, 1943, 1988, and undated.

Dates: circa 1942 - 1999

Pauline G. Palmer Scrapbook and Artifacts

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0670
Content Description

Correspondence, art, and scrapbook.

Dates: 1943-1953

Irene Parsons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0311
Content Description The collection includes a 2 August 2005 oral history transcript; a booklet titled "Alumni News: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro," Fall 1965; an article from the Topeka Paper titled "Luckily for 170,000 employes, she isn't typical boss-lady: North Carolina native holds highest personnel post ever held by woman," 5 September 1965; a booklet "Careers for Women...in the Veterans Administration," September 1973; a copy of Certificate for Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, 4 June...
Dates: 1945; 1965-1973

Mary "Pat" Elizabeth Partridge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0310
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, maps, patches, photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and official documents pertaining to Partridge's Red Cross service.

Dates: 1935-1972

Lucille Ingram Pauquette Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0037
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 February 1999; portrait photograph of Pauquette in uniform, October 1945.

Dates: 1945-1999