Bonnie James Baxter Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 31 August 2005; correspondence to Bonnie with UNCG Women's Veterans Archivists 2005-2006; various photographs of Baxter and friends during her United States Coast Guard SPARs service, circa 1944-1946.
Dates
- 1944-1946, 2005
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Bonnie James Baxter (b. 1924) of Clearwater, Florida, served in the Coast Guard SPARs (from Semper Paratus-Always Ready) from 1944 to 1946. Bonnie James Baxter was born in Dunedin, Florida, on 15 February 1924, and grew up in Clearwater, Florida. After graduating from Clearwater High School, she worked various clerical jobs and volunteered with the United StatesO before enlisting in the Coast Guard SPARs on February 26, 1944.
Baxter went through basic training in Palm Beach, Florida, followed by four months weeks in storekeeper school, from which she graduated in August 1944 with a 3rd class rating. She was then stationed at Constitution Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, where she remained until being discharged in 1946 as a storekeeper 1st class. After leaving the service, Baxter worked at Central Motor Lines, a trucking firm owned by Cannon Mills. She and her husband eventually settled in North Carolina.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (2 folders )
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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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve -- Uniforms
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs
- Title
- Bonnie James Baxter Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2023 February
- 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