WV. Women military veterans
Record Group
Identifier: WV
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
Lauretta Webster Wilkin Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0307
Scope and Contents
Letters to her family in West Covington, Kentucky, and several photographs document Lauretta Webster Wilkin's service in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. Subjects include basic training; WAAC parades; uniforms and equipment; her work in the army's drafting department; the transition from the WAAC to the WAC in 1943; war news; family affairs; and social life and recreation, including her softball team, parties, visits with friends, and her courtship and marriage to George Wilkin....
Dates:
1943-1946
Virgilia Williams Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0345
Abstract
Virgilia "Jill" Williams (1914-2003) of Grandview, Iowa, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) as a pharmacist's mate third class at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, and an instructor of pharmacist's mates at the U.S. Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York, during World War II.
The collection contains correspondence, military papers, photographs, postcards, publications, and a scrapbook kept by Williams.
Dates:
1942-1945
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female 51
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States 50
- Women veterans 48
- Women in war 44
- World War, 1939-1945 42
- United States. Army--Women 28
- Women veterans -- United States -- Interviews 9
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Military life 8
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Interviews 5
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps -- Military life 5
- Woman's College of the University of North Carolina -- Alumni and alumnae 5
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs 5
- American Red Cross 4
- American Red Cross -- Interviews 4
- United States. Navy -- History -- 20th century 4
- United States. Navy -- Women 4
- United States. Navy--Women 4
- Women sailors -- United States -- Correspondence 4
- Military nursing -- United States 3
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. 3
- United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve -- Military life 3
- United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve -- Uniforms 3
- United States. Navy -- History 3
- France -- Description and travel 2
- New Guinea -- Description and travel 2
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Women 2
- United States. Army -- Medical personnel 2
- United States. Army -- Nurses -- Interviews 2
- United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Interviews 2
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. 2
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Uniforms 2
- United States. Coast Guard. 2
- United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve -- History 2
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 2
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Interviews 2
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Military life 2
- Women air pilots -- United States -- Correspondence 2
- Women sailors -- United States 2
- Women soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 2
- African American soldiers 1
- African American women 1
- African American women -- History -- 20th century 1
- Armenaki, Doris Wofford -- Interviews 1
- Bright, Jean Marie -- Interviews 1
- Brister, Jane Gail -- Interviews 1
- Cairo (Egypt) -- Description and travel 1
- California -- Description and travel 1
- Dietitians 1
- Garrett, Caroline Morrison -- Interviews 1
- Hawaii -- Description and travel 1
- Iowa -- Description and travel 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, Female 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Women 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Women -- United States 1
- Librarians -- United States 1
- Librarians -- United States -- Interviews 1
- Military libraries -- Germany 1
- Military nursing -- United States -- 20th century 1
- Nisbet, Judith Bullock -- Interviews 1
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University -- Alumni and alumnae -- Interviews 1
- Oregon -- Description and travel 1
- Paris (France) -- Description and travel 1
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) 1
- Philippines -- Description and travel 1
- Philippines -- Social conditions 1
- Radnik, Carrie, 1942-2003 -- Interviews 1
- Sectionalism (United States) 1
- Southern States 1
- Tars and SPARS (Motion picture) 1
- United States. Army -- Medical care 1
- United States. Army -- Military life 1
- United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Military life 1
- United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division -- Interviews 1
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps -- Uniforms 1
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- History 1
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Interviews 1
- United States. Cadet Nurse Corps -- Interviews 1
- United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve -- Uniforms 1
- United States. Marine Corps Women's Reserve -- Uniforms 1
- United States. Marine Corps--Women 1
- United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve -- Interviews 1
- United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve -- Photographs 1
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro -- Faculty -- Interviews 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Female 1
- Virginia -- Description and travel 1
- Walker, Winona Franklin -- Interviews 1
- Woman's College of the University of North Carolina -- Alumni and alumnae -- Interviews 1
- Women air pilots -- United States -- Interviews 1
- Women journalists -- United States 1
- Women marines 1
- Women sailors 1
- Women sailors -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence 1
- Women sailors -- United States -- Interviews 1
- Women soldiers -- Kentucky -- Correspondence 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps 18
- United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve 10
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps 9
- United States. Army Nurse Corps 5
- American Red Cross 4
- United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division 2
- United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve 2
- United States. Marine Corps Women's Reserve 2
- Armenaki, Doris Wofford (1923-2013) 1
- Bachman, Elizabeth 1
- Bain, Susan Winston 1
- Bennett, Judith C. 1
- Bright, Jean Marie 1
- Brister, Jane Gail 1
- Carter family. 1
- Carter, Nancy E. 1
- Carter, Peggy 1
- Cox, Catherine 1
- Crick, Genevieve 1
- Davis, Coco (Coralee Burson) 1
- Davis, Coralee "Coco" Burson 1
- Dickson, Mary C 1
- Doucet, Nadine Dotts 1
- Fischer, Marcelle K. 1
- Fox, Charlesanna L. 1
- Frances Stanley Trembath 1
- Furstman, Arline E. 1
- Garrett, Caroline Morrison 1
- Harris, Norma L. 1
- Herbert, Bessie L. 1
- Heyer, Anne Elisabeth 1
- Horton, Evelyn E. 1
- Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz 1
- Jackson, Marjorie L. 1
- Jensen, Leona "Evelyn" 1
- Josephine L. DePietro 1
- Kropp, Ruth C. 1
- LaPlante, Adeline Sears 1
- Magnusson, Betty 1
- Mathews, Mary Haynsworth 1
- McPherson, Maggie V. 1
- Mead, Janet Muriel 1
- Mertz, Irene A. Gepfert 1
- Necko, Mary Cugini 1
- Nisbet, Judith Bullock 1
- Partridge, Mary Elizabeth 1
- Peck, Eleanor K. 1
- Petry, Ruth M. 1
- Pihlblad, Marie Louise 1
- Pimlott, Lillian M. 1
- Pritchard, Jane 1
- Radnik, Carrie 1
- Roberta Wooddell House 1
- Ryan, Lola H. 1
- Scott, Ellen L. 1
- Thavenet, Molly 1
- Thornton, Nancy Wooddell 1
- Tillson, Shirley, M. 1
- Toll family 1
- Toll, Henry C. 1
- Toll, Katharine W. 1
- United States. Air Force Services 1
- United States. Army Air Forces 1
- United States. Cadet Nurse Corps 1
- United States. Navy Department. Library 1
- United States. Navy Nurse Corps 1
- Walker, Winona Franklin 1
- White, Sherley Mae 1
- Wilkin, Lauretta Webster 1
- Williams, Virgilia 1
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 1 + ∧ less
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