Marjorie L. Jackson Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 123 letters written by Jackson to her fiance, Henry Heusinkveld, from February through August 1945, while Jackson was stationed in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and later, Louisville, Kentucky. While the letters contain some information on Jackson's day-to-day life as a WAC, they focus primarily on the couple's personal relationship.
Dates
- 1945
Creator
- Jackson, Marjorie L. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information. Sensitive Materials Statement.
Biographical Note
Marjorie L. Jackson (1919-1998) of Louisiana served as a corporal in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) Army Air Forces during World War II. Jackson joined the WAC on 15 March 1944. Following basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, she was assigned to the Army Air Forces Personnel Distribution Command (PDC) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Jackson was transferred to Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky, in April 1945, where she also worked in the PDC until she gained reassignment as a music instructor at the convalescent hospital on base in May 1945.
After the war, Marjorie married Henry Heusinkveld and moved to his family farm in Iowa.
Extent
0.20 Linear Feet (1 half-sized manuscript box)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Method of Acquisition
Purchased from Bob Wilson in February 2006.
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Processing Information
Jennifer Motszko, July 2009
- Jackson, Marjorie L.
- United States. Army Air Forces
- United States. Army--Women
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
- Women and the military
- Women in war
- Women soldiers -- Louisiana -- Correspondence
- Women veterans
- Women veterans -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
- Title
- Marjorie L. Jackson Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jennifer Motszko
- Date
- 07/20/2009
- 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