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Elizabeth Simpson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0205
Content Description

Papers; postcards; photographs; and artifacts.

Dates: 1942-1946

Lillian Sutter Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0350
Content Description

This letter is dated 20 June, 1945. In it Sutter discusses the overseas voyage in which she stopped in Australia and Calcutta, India. She writes about her impressions of Calcutta and her living conditions and the hospital at her posting in Assam, India. Sutter also describes the typhoid ward to which she is assigned, the chaplain at the post, and her reaction to V-E Day.

Dates: 1945 June 20

Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0197
Content Description

The collection includes miscellaneous photographs; service diary; military papers; flight log; United States Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia Pictorial Review, circa 1943 to 1945; "WAVES of the Navy: A Story of the Women's Reserve Activities at the Naval Air Station by Eunice A. Horne; Certificate of Satisfactory Service ID Card, 1946; Officer's Cap Device; Lieutenant's Collar Bars; Honorable Service "Ruptured Duck" Pin; and Dog Tags, 1942.

Dates: circa 1942-1955

Florence S. Weil Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0225
Content Description

photographs; Correspondence, 1942-1944; menus and newspaper clippings, 1942-1943.

Dates: 1942-1945

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

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

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

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

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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