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Elizabeth "Betty" Bachman Collection
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 romantic relationship.
Judith C. Bennett Collection
Betty Berry Godin Collection
Margaret L. Bohler Letter
The V-mail letter is dated 18 April; 1943. Bohler was working to establish a hospital in India and in the letter she describes her living conditions there.
Westray Battle Boyce Collection
Jane Gail Brister Collection
Ellen V. Carter Collection
The collection includes "My Life in the Service" diary/autograph book, 1942-1943; 15 photographs of Carter's time with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and Women's Army Corps (WAC), 1942-1945.
Nancy E. Carter Family Collection
Helen Louise Cowgill Collection
Helen Louise Cowgill (1919-2008) of Syracuse, New York, was a segeant in the U.S. Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1945 until 1948.
This collection contains correspondence 1945-1948 by Helen Cowgill, one newspaper clipping, and a letter from Cowgill's brother William.
Catherine "Kay" Cox Collection
The collection contains approximately fifty letters written by Cox to Robert W. Curwen (1921-2008), a friend in the U.S. Army Air Forces, during World War II. The letters contain information on Cox's duties in the WAC and her thoughts on the U.S. Army. Included is a copy of the 14 March 1944 Pill Pusher, the newspaper of the Stark General Army Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina.
Genevieve Crick Collection
Martha Davis Collection
Josephine L. DePietro Collection
Maxine Virginia Easter Collection
Marcelle Fischer Collection
Caroline Morrison Garrett Collection
Eileen E. Hallstein Scrapbook
Norma L. Harris Collection
The collection contains military papers, pins and patches, programs, newsletters and newspapers from the areas where Harris served, and WAC songbooks.
Margaret E. Hasell Collection
The collection includes various Greeting cards, letters, and telegrams addressed to Hassell from various family members, 1944-1945.
Lou A. Hedding Collection
Bessie L. Herbert Collection
Anne Elisabeth Heyer Collection
Mattie Donnell Hicks Collection
Evelyn E. Horton Collection
Marjorie L. Jackson Collection
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.
Marjory Johnson Collection
The collection includes a 1999 October oral history and photographs, 1945-1946.
Adeline Sears LaPlante Collection
Adeline Sears LaPlante (1919-2006) of Easton, Pennsylvania, served as a recruiter and as a public relations officer in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942-1945.
This collection includes letters, postcards and Christmas cards from LaPlante to her parents about her career in the WAAC and the WAC from 1943-1944. The collection also contains a photograph album, and news clippings from LaPlante's time in the service.
Louise MacLeod Collection
This collection includes Photograph album, photographs, letters.
Betty Magnusson Collection
Rachel Summers McGee Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 January 1999; various photographs of McGee during her service, circa 1942 and undated; 1 newspaper clipping featuring McGee, undated; 2 pages from "Army Life" magazine, May 1943; a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps summer khaki uniform with leather pocketbook.
Marie E. Merrill Collection
photocopies of photographs; Olive Drab Jacket, circa 1942-1950.
Eleanor K. Peck Letters
This collection consists of fifteen letters written by Peck to her family beginning a few days after her arrival in London, England, on 31 October 1941. The letters are addressed to "Poppy", which may be her father, and "Ros", which may be a nickname for her younger sister Rosamond, as well as her family. All fifteen letters describe the people and everyday life in London before she was commissioned by the Army, and discuss any news from the war and her family.
Thelma L. Meyer Petty Collection
Marie Louise Pihlblad Collection
Jane Pritchard Collection
The contents of this collection contains three letters from 1945 from Pritchard's friend Private First Class Susan Peters, who was stationed in Florence, Italy as a member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). These letters describe the places around the world that Peters travelled to, and her fellow WACs. There is also one photograph of an unnamed woman - presumably Jane Pritchard - in a naval uniform.
Carrie Radnik Collection
Carrie Radnik of Montrose, Alabama, served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.
Collection includes oral history interview and photographs from Radnik's service with the Army Nurse Corps in Louisiana and in Australia and New Guinea in the early 1940s.
Virginia Russell Reavis Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 September 2000; various military paperwork, 1944-1945; various photographs of Reavis during her Army Air Force service, 1943; an article published from the Tideland News, Swansboro, NC, 2000; an Army Air Evacuation Nurse Wings metal uniform pin located in Artifact box.
Geraldine Smith Richardson Collection
This collection includes a Major Geraldine Smith Richardson's journal spanning from 1942-1946, two military identification cards, an Ancient Order of the Deep membership card, three military medals, and an assortment of military insignia.
Lola H. Ryan Letters
The collection contains approximately 120 letters and v-mail written by Lola Ryan to her parents and brother. Ryan discusses her experiences of being a nurse in basic training, the conditions in wartime France, German prisoners of war, her experiences as a wartime nurse, and her longing to return home and be discharged from the army.
Ellen L. Scott Letters
Collection consists of seven letters written to her parents in Johnson City, Tennessee. In the letters, Scott discusses military life at the various bases at which she was assigned as well as her job responsibilities. The last letter indicates that she had left the WAC and was living in Gadsden, Alabama with her husband Bill who was serving in the Army Air Force.
Ruth M. Strawn Letters
The Inez Stroud Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Stroud while serving in the Women's Army Corps, 1943-1969; a copy of 12 pages from a Stroud scrapbook which include newspaper clippings, circa 1940s; various papers from her WAC duties; a WAC Handbook for the Fort Des Moines Training Center, undated; a brief biography of Stroud used at her memorial service, November 1994; 3 loose sheets with song lyrics, undated.
Molly Thavenet Scrapbook
Roberta Wooddell House and Nancy Wooddell Thornton Collection
Frances Stanley Trembath Collection
This collection consists primarily of military and miscellaneous documents from 1942-1946; there are also twenty-one photos of Trembath, her nursing colleagues, hospital buildings, and waterfalls. There is one handwritten, unsigned letter from the Western Marine Railway company, asking for a travel refund.
Dale Augusta Van Vacter Angers Collection
The collection includes photograph of Angers in uniform, circa 1940s; handwritten timeline of service.
Unknown Texas and California WAAC Photograph Album
Photograph album of an unidentified WAAC who served during World War II. Album includes photograph of 2nd Company, 3rd Regiment, First WAAC Training Center, Fort Des Moines, Iowa, March 16, 1943. Other photographs are of training in Commerce and El Paso, Texas, as well as Hollywood and Long Beach, California.
Winona Franklin Walker Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 July 2003; 3 scrapbooks that contain a number of photographs, postcards, travel brochures, and correspondence. Locations visited by Walker in her scrapbooks include: Bremen, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland.
Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz Collection
Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz (1911-2007) of Detroit, Michigan, served as an officer in African American units of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and later the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942-1945.
The collection is made up of nine photographs and one letter from Wertz to her mother.
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