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Artifact box WV Gen 02

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Red Cross Military Welfare Service patch

 Item — Artifact box: WV Gen 02, Drawer: 2.3
Identifier: WV 0295- Item Item 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, photographs, an oral history interview, and artifacts and textiles document Jean M. Bright's Red Cross service in New Guinea, Japan, and the Philippines during World War II. Papers include five postcards from New Guinea; a postcard of the S.S. Lurline, the passenger troop ship that Bright sailed on; a 1945 Christmas card from the Philippines; and a 1944 immunization register. Postcards contain brief messages about an all-African American church in New Guinea and about the cabin...
Dates: 1944-1946, 2004-2005