Bernice Moran Miller Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various personal correspondence; various photographs of Miller while serving with the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1945.
Dates
- circa 1942-1999
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Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Bernice Moran Miller, of Dunnstown, Pennsylvania, served in the Women's Army Corps from October 1942 to October 1945.
Bernice Moran Miller was born and raised in Dunnstown, Pennsylvania. After graduating high school in 1927, she attended nearby Lock Haven Teachers College (now Lock Haven University) and graduated in 1931. She worked as a waitress for two years before securing a teaching position at a rural elementary school in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.
She taught there for four years and then at a school in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, until enlisting in the the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in October 1942. Miller attended basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and then went to photography school at Lowry Field in Denver, Colorado.
She was then assigned to the 2nd Mapping Squadron at Felts Field, Washington, in spring 1943 and Miller remained there until early 1944, when she was transferred back to Lowry Feild. In July 1944, she was transferred to Wright-Patterson Field in Dayton, Ohio, where she analyzed photographs to identify German scientific and factory equipment.
Miller was discharged on 17 October 1945. Bernice Miller married Herbert Miller in January 1944. She was a teacher until her retirement and has traveled to over 140 countries.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (3 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.
- Moran Miller , Bernice
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- History
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Interviews
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Military life
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Uniforms
- 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
- Bernice Moran Miller Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 May
- 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