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1949 Women in the Air Force (WAF) Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: WV 0638
Abstract
This photograph album documents the early days of the Women in the Air Force Program including some of the earliest African Amercian WAF. The photographs mostly document the trainees in San Antonio, Texas and Lackland Air Force Base and shows the women working and training around the base. There are also photographs of the women during their free time enjoying activities on and off base including trips to the Alamo, Riverwalk, and the Continental Divide.
Dates:
1948 - 1949; Other: Date acquired: 11/10/2017
Doris Wofford Armenaki Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0079
Scope and Contents
Doris Wofford Armenaki of Cornelia, Ga., served in the Cadet Nurse Corps and the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.Included are artifacts, an oral history interview, and a photograph documenting Armenaki's service and nursing experiences. Artifacts include dog tags, identification materials, an Army Nurse Corps cloisonne pin, and army patches. Oral history interview documents Armenaki's early education, her military service, her personal life after the war, and her nurses...
Dates:
1944-1999
Dora Ann DeHart Atha Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0504
Abstract
Dora Atha (b. 1942) of Leaksville, North Carolina, served as a medical specialist in the U.S. Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1961-1964.
The collection includes a 2010 oral history interview, uniforms, military records, correspondence, and training materials.
Dates:
1961-1962; Other: Date acquired: 11/20/2010
Elizabeth "Betty" Bachman Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0315
Abstract
Elizabeth "Betty" Bachman (1917-2005), of Wapakoneta, Ohio, served with the Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. She worked to train new women recruits as the acting platoon sergeant for the 2nd Platoon at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.This collection consists of approximately 30 pieces of correspondence during 1943 between Bachman and Miss Cecil De Long of Wapakoneta, Ohio. The letters indicate that Bachman and De Long had a...
Dates:
1943
Susie Winston Bain Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0185
Abstract
Susie Winston Bain of Markham, Texas, was a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) during World War II.Correspondence, artifacts, textiles, printed material, clippings, and an oral history interview document Susie Winston Bain's 1943-1944 service as a WASP. Letters from Bain to her family describe daily life on base in Laredo, Texas, in 1944. Military and personal papers document Bain's activities as a pilot during WWII and in post-war Greensboro, North Carolina. Newspapers and...
Dates:
1943 - 2000; 1944
Catherine Ann Bennett Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0697
Content Description
This collection contains various military items related to Catherine Ann Bennett including a 1974 cap, a flight suit "zimmer", navy blue jacket with pins, photographs, and papers.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1974-1999
Judith C. Bennett Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0290
Abstract
Lieutenant Judith C. Bennett served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in New Guinea from 1944 to 1945.
The bulk of this collection consists of letters dated 1944-1945 from Lt. Judith C. Bennett to her family in Corsicana, Texas, while she was stationed in New Guinea with the Women's Army Corps.
Dates:
1944-1945
Sally Ann Weeks Benson Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0579
Scope and Contents
Included in this collection are a 2015 oral history interview, military papers, correspondence, photographs, artifacts, and uniforms. Much of the material in the collection focuses on her time in Meridian, Mississippi and Sasebo, Japan.
Dates:
1961-2005; Other: Majority of material found within 1993-2002
Elizabeth "Betsy" Blee Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0538
Abstract
Elizabeth "Betsy" Summer Blee (b. 1951) served in Ground Supply and as a Mess Officer in the Marine Corps from 1975-1981, and in the Marine Corps Reserves from 1981-1997. Included are her papers, artifacts and pictures from her time in the military, largely focusing on the 1970s.
Dates:
1960 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1993; Other: Date acquired: 2012 September 21
Westray Battle Boyce Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0472
Abstract
Westray Battle Boyce (1901 - 1972), of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, served as part of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corp (WAAC) and Women's Army Corp (WAC) from 1942 to 1947. She served under General Eisenhower in North Africa and is the first woman to have received the Legion of Merit medal. In 1945, she succeeded Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby as director of the WAC and served as its second director until her retirement from military service in 1947.Collection contains copies of letters...
Dates:
1943 - 1975; Other: Date acquired: 2009
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