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Aileen D. White Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0301
Abstract

Aileen D. White served in the Army Nurse Corps in Italy during World War II.

Thirteen V-Mail letters from Lt. Aileen D. White of the Army Nurse Corps to her sister in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Dated from January 1944 to March 1944, the letters briefly describe living conditions and entertainment in an unknown location in Italy where White was stationed with the 17th General Hospital.

Dates: 1944

Sherley Mae White Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0485
Abstract

Sherley Mae White (1923-2014) served in the Women's Reserve of the Coast Guard (SPARS) from 1943-1945. She served as a drum major for the SPARS marching band at the Biltmore Training Station in Palm Beach, Florida. She later transferred to the Coast Guard Base in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Dates: 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2010

Dorothy Anderson Whiteford Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0714
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 January 2022; various photographs of Whiteford's Navy WAVES service, 1944-1946.

Dates: 1944-1946 and 2022

Nina Johnson Wiglesworth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0132
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December 8 oral history transcript; a personal letter to Wiglesworth from a captain, 1944 October 25; photographs of Wiglesworth at Camp Lejeune and in Washington D.C. in uniform, circa 1943 to 1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Betty Etten Wiker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0428
Content Description This collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 September 2008; photographs of Betty during service as a Women's Army Corps (WAC) 1943-1949; copy of a letter home relaying an exciting bombing mission she was able to take part in. This was to bomb an ice jam on the Chena River to relieve a flooded area in Alaska; copy of a 3 page history of Women's Army Corps from 1942-1945; newpaper clippings circa 1978; 2006 and one undated; American Legion Magazine article on WAC 35th anniversary...
Dates: 1942-1949, 1952, 1977-1978, 2008

Lauretta Webster Wilkin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0307
Scope and Contents Letters to her family in West Covington, Kentucky, and several photographs document Lauretta Webster Wilkin's service in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. Subjects include basic training; WAAC parades; uniforms and equipment; her work in the army's drafting department; the transition from the WAAC to the WAC in 1943; war news; family affairs; and social life and recreation, including her softball team, parties, visits with friends, and her courtship and marriage to George Wilkin....
Dates: 1943-1946

Elizabeth Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0058
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 March 1999; various photographs of Williams Red Cross service and for a Life Magazine publication, 1943-1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Virgilia Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0345
Abstract

Virgilia "Jill" Williams (1914-2003) of Grandview, Iowa, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) as a pharmacist's mate third class at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, and an instructor of pharmacist's mates at the U.S. Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York, during World War II.

The collection contains correspondence, military papers, photographs, postcards, publications, and a scrapbook kept by Williams.

Dates: 1942-1945

Willie Mae Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0202
Content Description

The collection includes a 2001 February oral history transcript; photograph of Williams in off-duty Women's Army Corps (WAC) dress with cap, circa 1944; a typed 4 page paper, "Women in the Military Services in the Past"; newspaper article (copy) of Williams on her 90th birthday, 2002 November 22; and additional items are available at Florida State University collections: https://archives.lib.fsu.edu/repositories/6/resources/494.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Jeri Williams Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0536
Content Description

This collection includes letters: seven copies of memoir of WAVES Hunter College 1943 officer training school that were sent via mail to friends in 1973.

Dates: 1943-1973

Leah T. Willis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0182
Content Description

The collection includes correspondence to and from Willis during her Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps service, 1944-1945; various military paperwork, 1942-1948; a photograph of Willis in uniform, 1941-1948; typed manuscript "Sir, Ma'am" that include some of her letters; various personal papers from post-military service, undated.

Dates: 1941-1948

Wanda R. Wills Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0263

Doris K. Wilmott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0045
Content Description

The collection includes various letters of correspondence and greeting cards during Wilmott's service, May 1943-July 1945; a newspaper clipping titled "Wins Soldier's Medal," 19 November 1943; a copy of The Stars and Stripes military newspaper, 23 November 1943; mixed materials, July 1943, undated.

Dates: circa 1943-1945

Doris Dickens Wilson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0388
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 March 2007; copy of handwritten service memories and photocopy of photographs in scrapbook during service during WWII from 1942-1945.

Dates: 1942-1945, 2007

Edna Smith Wilson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0355
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 July 2006; portrait photograph of Edna in her Marines Winter uniform and hat; photograph of her mother in the Motor Corps in WWI standing in front of a vehicle.

Dates: 2006 July, undated

Helen Mary Winfield Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0260

Elizabeth Ryan Wiviott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0008
Content Description

The collection includes 2 full newspaper publications, February 1945; various invitations to events on the U.S.S. Franklin and U.S.S. Shangri-La, 1944; a songbook for the WAVES, February 1943; various photographs, 1944; a thank you letter from a Mrs. Doolittle for attending luncheon, February 1944; 2 letters from UNC Greensboro, 1992 and 1998; a Navy WAVES dress uniform with Havelock and a white leather class jacket from her graduation at the UNC Woman's College, 1942.

Dates: 1942-1998

Women Veterans General Printed Materials and Video Recordings Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0002
Abstract Recruiting brochures, publications, manuals and guides, postcards, ephemeral materials, posters, and video recordings purchased by University Archives and Manuscripts on a continuing basis supplement and complement the individual veterans collections in the Women Veterans Historical Collection. This collection includes various types of printed materials dating from 1864, and then World War I to 2018. The majority is from the Women's Army Corps, Women's Air Force, WAVES (Women Accepted for...
Dates: 1864, 1918-2018; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1949

Women Veterans General Textiles and Artifacts Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WV 0001
Abstract Textiles and artifacts purchased by University Archives and Manuscripts on a continuing basis supplement and complement the individual veterans collections in the Women Veterans Historical Project. This collection includes full uniforms, individual uniform items, hats, shoes, and other artifacts from the Women's Army Corps, Women's Air force, WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service-Navy), Coast Guard SPARS, Women Marines, Army Nurse Corps, Navy Nurse Corps, American Red Cross,...
Dates: circa 1940-1999

Unknown WWII Woman Marine Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0672
Content Description A photograph album compiled by a woman, only identified as “Krash,” who served with the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve during World War II. The album details Krash's time at Motor Transport School at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, circa 1943. Photographs include a “before and after” of Krash, one in her civilian clothes and the other in her Marine uniform; Women Marines in uniform in group photos and portraits smiling or saluting for the camera; Women Marines wearing coveralls...
Dates: circa 1943

Louise Ross Yegge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0242
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Louise and husband, John, circa 1943-1945; an oral history transcript, 25 January 2002.

Dates: 1943-1945

Rosemary Blakely Zule Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0149
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 February 2000; VFW magazine articles written for and by Zule, 1995-2000; postcards of war ravaged business district; photographs of Zule's military service, circa 1940s; Women's Army Auxiliary Corps propaganda, undated.

Dates: circa 1940-2000

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