Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection
Content Description
The collection includes miscellaneous photographs; service diary; military papers; flight log; United States Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia Pictorial Review, circa 1943 to 1945; "WAVES of the Navy: A Story of the Women's Reserve Activities at the Naval Air Station by Eunice A. Horne; Certificate of Satisfactory Service ID Card, 1946; Officer's Cap Device; Lieutenant's Collar Bars; Honorable Service "Ruptured Duck" Pin; and Dog Tags, 1942.
Dates
- circa 1942-1955
Creator
- Terry, Henrietta Pearl (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Henrietta Pearl Terry (1904-1981), of Virdin, Illinois, served in the United States Navy WAVES from 1942 to 1945. Henrietta Pearl Terry, a professor of mathematics, joined the WAVES in 1942. Lieutenant Terry was trained as an aerologist and stationed at the United States Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia. As an aerologist she accompanied many flight crews, but according to her diary and flight log she learned to fly and often piloted these planes herself.
Extent
0.42 Linear Feet (artifact box)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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- United States. Navy -- History
- United States. Navy -- History -- 20th century
- United States. Navy -- Women
- United States. Navy--Women
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Armed Forces -- United States -- Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs
- Title
- Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2023 January
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository