WV. Women military veterans
Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:
1949 Women in the Air Force (WAF) Photograph Album
This photograph album documents the early days of the Women in the Air Force Program including some of the earliest African American WAF. The photographs mostly document the trainees in San Antonio, Texas and Lackland Air Force Base and shows the women working and training around the base. There are also photographs of the women during their free time enjoying activities on and off base including trips to the Alamo, Riverwalk, and the Continental Divide.
Elaine Agnes Anderson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 December 2000; photographs of Elaine during her services as a WAC in Germany, 1949-1952; military payment certificates in five and ten cent denominations.
Dora Ann DeHart Atha Collection
Elizabeth Rutledge Bacon Collection
The collection includes a WAC plaque, 1954; photographs of Bacon’s service with the Women's Army Corps; various military papers, 1948-1962; various newspaper clippings, 1942-1952, 1978.
Shirley D. Brantley Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 May 2001; various photograph of Shirley, 1952; official portrait photograph of the group of service members that completed dental technician training at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, 8 December 1952.
Irma Jean Brooks Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 April 2006 oral history transcript; photograph of Irma at retirement ceremony with presentation by RADM Emmett Tidd; Textile Box contains white evening dress uniform jacket and skirt circa 1952-1973; Artifact box contains Recruitment command pins; 2 bags of naval rank pins; name tags.
Jerry Rita Jolliff Brunton Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 July 2015; documents related to Women Veterans of Coastal North Carolina, undated; postcards and calendars related to the Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C., undated; a document reflecting on the North Carolina Veterans Day Parade in Morehead City, written by Brunton, November 2011; a WAVES jacket, t-shirt, sweatshirt, and polo shirt; various books related to WAVES.
Mary F. Cannon Collection
Mary F. Cannon (1921-2012) of Chicago, Illinois, was stationed in Korea while a member of the Army Nurse Corps from 1951 to 1953 and in Vietnam during her service with the Navy Nurse Corps from 1958 to 1974.
This collection includes April 2008 oral history interview transcript available for use onsite in the archives, copies of photographs.
Dorothy Coley Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 November 1999; various photographs of Coley's American Red Cross service and graduation from Women's College, 1940-1982; Artifact Box 1 contains American Red Cross Consignee pin.
Blossom Ellis Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2007; photographs of Blossom in United States Air Force Nurse uniform, circa 1953-1954; official discharge paperwork, 1962.
Jane Heins Escher Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 May 1999; various photographs of Escher’s WAVES service, 1951-1953; 9 photocopies of graduation ceremony scrapbook; a Naval Training Center publication, 1941.
Lois Betlach Filewood Collection
Uniforms, artifacts, books, publications, scrapbooks.
Audrey Ann Fisher Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Fisher's time in the Army, 1973-1974; a copy of a Times Herald article, 1974; handwritten speech for Veterans Day Remembrance Ceremony, November 2013.
Joan E. Gerichten Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 October 1999; photographs of Joan while and after serving in Marine Corps, 1961-1986; 2 Woodland Camouflage uniforms; 3 tan shirts; 2 green skirts; green slacks; green necktab; 2 staff Sergeant Rank patches.
Ellen Harris Huckabee Gobbell Collection
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.
Dorothy Mae Griffin Rice Collection
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.
Louise Martin Harrison Uniform
The collection includes a raincoat, circa 1951.
Bernice Isabel Heath Collection
Betty Pegg Hemphill Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 4 January 2002; various photographs of Hemphill during her Women's Air Force service, circa 1950-1951.
Valeria F. Hilgart Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 March 2000; a photograph of Hilgart's Marine Corps service, 1980.
Joan R. Kammer Horton Collection
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.
Juanita J Johnson Collection
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.
Paula J. Johnson Collection
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.
Jane Beetham Jones Collection
This collection includes 2006 Oral History transcript; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clipping, and scrapbook. Newsletters and clipping contain articles that feature Jones in the Marines. The scrapbook contains photographs, additional clippings, and papers related to Jones's military service. Nineteen black-and-white photographs show a recruiting event at Broadhead Armory in Detroit in the early 1950s, a Marine Corps League convention, and Jones on the job in the late 1960s.
Linda R. Jones Collection
This collection includes April 2011 oral history transcript; a journal, Jan-Feb 1991; photocopies of travel authorizations; photocopy of Third United States Army's Central Region Area Orientation booklet; photocopy of a photograph of Jones in uniform; Red Cross-issued deck of cards; and Red Cross desert camouflage uniform (jacket, pants with belt, daisy mae hat,boots).
Anna Kalar Textiles
This collection includes one white glove, a button, and a white scarf.
Marie Kevensky Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 November 1999.
Therese M. Lambert Collection
Therese Lambert served in the United Women Army Corps from 1950 until 1953 in Germany and the United States. She later enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve.
The collection includes a 2009 July 22 oral history transcript and several scanned photographs.
Maryelln Powers Laskowski Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 February 2002; various photographs of Maryelln during her service, 1942-1954; a copy of passport application, undated.
Rebecca Ann Lloyd Collection
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.
Lunary Love Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 April 2000.
Bertha Nichols McClure Oral History
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.
Maggie V. McPherson Collection
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.
Marie E. Merrill Collection
photocopies of photographs; Olive Drab Jacket, circa 1942-1950.
Luvenia Griffin Mitchell Collection
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.
Maxine Newcom Pierce Collection
Viola Brown Sanders Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 June 2005; various photographs of Viola during her service with the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), 1943-1966; various newspaper clippings featuring Viola or military related articles, 1971, 1999-2005; letters written to Viola that honor her work and career.
Norma Schrader Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 February 2007; a scrapbook documenting Schrader's time with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), undated; various certificates, 2013-2020; garrison cap with insignia; a photograph of Schrader, undated; a copy of a newspaper article titled, "The Role of the Chief Petty Officer in the Modern Navy," Naval Institute Proceedings, April 1957; garrison cap;award; photograph; chief warrant officer charge book.
Mary Ellen Shugart Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 28 April 2015; 3 magazine publications, December 1993-November 2011; various scanned photographs, 1964-1970.
Ellen Brown Steel Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Steel's Women's Army Corps (WAC) service and retirement, 1950-1969; textiles include a uniform jacket without the brass, uniform skirt and uniform jacket, 1949-1969.
Grace Swank Alexander Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 January 1999.
June Thomas Swearengin Collection
This collection includes June 2014 oral history transcript; copies of newspaper clippings; and copy of her book "The Question: Give up or Get up?"
Frances Bradsher Turner Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2002; various photographs of Frances' Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1971; a resume documenting rank, awards and service in Army.
Mary L. Turner Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Turner's travels and her family, circa 1952-1999; various newspaper articles written by Tuner for Kernersville News, circa 1992-2002; an article titled "Dr. and Mrs. James Turner mixed Military and Medical Careers," Fifty Plus News, November 1991.
Dale Augusta Van Vacter Angers Collection
The collection includes photograph of Angers in uniform, circa 1940s; handwritten timeline of service.
JoAnn Sesher Webb Collection
This collection includes August 2013 oral history transcript. and photographs.