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Sally Ann Weeks Benson Collection
Sally Ann Weeks Benson (b. 1947), from Aiken, South Carolina, served as an officer in the United States Navy from July of 1981 to August of 2002.
Included in this collection are a 2015 oral history interview, military papers, correspondence, photographs, artifacts, uniforms, and other textiles. Much of the material in the collection focuses on her postings in Meridian, Mississippi and Sasebo, Japan.
Deborah Elizabeth Branson Collection
Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion Collection
Denise DiBetta Mathis Champion (b. 1953) served in the United States Navy WAVES, or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, from 1976 to 1980 .
Lois Betlach Filewood Collection
Uniforms, artifacts, books, publications, scrapbooks.
Barbara Vincent Gunschel Collection
Barbara Gunschel served in the US Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1943 until 1944. During this time she was stationed in Washington DC.
Laura Henry Collection
Laura Henry (1912-2009) of Palo Alto California, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II. She completed special training in aerography and became one of the first twenty-two aerologists in the WAVES preparing forecasts for the military planes.
Alice Doretta Lentz Collection
Alice Doretta Lentz (1921-2009) was a nurse holding the rank of ensign in the United States Navy Nurse Corps during World War II, who was stationed at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This collection consists of personal letters written by Lentz to her family that describe her life as a nurse, her patients at the hospital, and her friends.
Irene A. Gepfert Mertz Collection
Lieutenant Junior Grade Irene A. Gepfert Mertz (1919-2012) of Fort Wayne, Indiana, served in the Navy Nurse Corps (NNC) from 1943-1946. She worked at both the San Diego Naval Hospital in California and the Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii during her commission.
Jane Pritchard Collection
Jane Pritchard was an Ensign in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Emergency Services) stationed in Cambridge, Massachusetts during World War II.
The collection contains three letters to Pritchard from Private First Class Susan Peters and one unidentified photograph.
Triangle Seagals Collection
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