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Muriel Coykendall Kiser Collection
The collection includes a 18 May 1999 oral history transcript; 4 copies of photographs; American Red Cross blue-gray battledress wool jacket, trousers, and visor hat.
Audrey Brewington Knight Oral History
The collection includes a 5 February 2009 oral history transcript and copies of photographs.
Ruth C. Kropp Collection
Ruth Cambric Kropp enlisted in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service - Navy) in October 1942 and worked in communications and decoding at various installations until her discharge in November 1944.
This collection consists of five WAVES artifacts used by Ruth Kropp during her World War II service.
Marian Estelle Gold Krugman Papers
Winifred Taylor Kuehn Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; "As You Were" magazine, 1994; Navy WAVES book by Elizabeth Allen Butler, 1988; Naval Reserve Midshipman's school song sheet copy; WAVES Sing-A-Long booklet from 50th Anniversary Celebration, circa 1992; photographs of Kuehn in WAVES uniform and gathering with local WAVES group, circa 1944.
Jennie Kwiatanowski Journal
Personal Journal written in from March 23 1933- June 23 1933.
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.
Helene Lawrence Collection
Edith Kimsey League Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 April 1999; a photograph of League in U.S. Army uniform, circa 1945.
Alice Doretta Lentz Letters
This collection consists of twenty-two personal letters written by Lentz to her family that describe her life as a nurse, which included receiving vaccinations and watching as German prisoners of war arrived at her base. The letters also discuss news regarding her friends and her patients.
Lucile Griffin Leonard Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 January 1999; various correspondence, including Victory Mail, September 1943-May 1945; various photographs of Leonard’s United States Army service as dietician, circa 1944-1945 and undated; various military papers, 1943-1946; a scrapbook documenting Leonard's Army service, 1943-1945; Griffin's Army Dietician olive drab uniform, 1942-1943.
Florence Leonard Uniforms
This collection includes Cadet Nurse Corps blue dress; white apron; and white cap.
Pearl Harbor Letter
Three page letter typewritten dated December 13, 1941 from Honolulu signed by Ella that describes the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She worked at the hospital as a nurse on the base and watched the enemy planes fly "directly over the Hospital, then turn and some bombs fell about a half block from here." She then describes the scene left behind and says there is lots to do and though things do not look good on the island it is not going to get her down.
Eloise Rallings Lewis Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 March 1999; various photographs of Lewis' Army Nurse Corps service, 1945-1952; various military papers, 1945-1950; a Nurses' Guide handbook, 1945. There is an additional manuscript collection from Eloise Patricia Rallings Lewis at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/mss:MSS0128.
Lucy Slade Libby Collection
Memoir written by Lucy on December 2004 "Memories of A World War II Army Nurse on Saipan"; photographs of Lucy at graduation from Duke nursing school; during her service in the war as a nurse at Camp Davis, Wilmington, North Carolina, and later photographs during service overseas along with a photocopied scrapbookwith details of each photograph, circa 1942-1945.
Henrietta Clodfelter Lucke Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 May 1999; a New York Times article titled, "New Army Nurses Depart for Camp"; various photographs of Lucke during and after serving with the Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines and Tokyo, 1945-1946.
Nell Smith Lutz Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 March 2003; various photographs of Lutz's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency (WAVES) Navy, 1943-1945; personal correspondence during her WAVES service, 1943-1944, along with Navy papers and newspaper clippings, 1943-2003; DVD video interview by Bob Gaines "The Vanishing Generation."
Joan Lyle Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 May 2007; various photocopies of newspaper clippings and photographs, circa 1942-1951; various certificates from her time with the Army Air Force, 1944 and 1950.
Sylvia Lynch Letters
This collection includes four letters written by Lynch from Manila, Philippines in August and September, 1945. Lynch discusses conditions in Manila, V-J day, and predictions on when she will be discharged from the WAC.
Janet MacCubbin Collection
The collection includes a 14 May 2009 oral history transcript; a portrait photograph of MacCubbin in American Red Cross military welfare winter uniform with cap, circa 1941.
Louise MacLeod Collection
This collection includes Photograph album, photographs, letters.
Betty Magnusson Collection
Rose Elaine Male Collection
The collection includes 2 folders of correspondence from Rose Male to her family in Schenectady, New York, December 1944-February 1946.
Ruth Mildred Marshburn Collection
The collection includes a scrapbook, 1944-1946, 1958; Insignia Patches, circa 1944-1946; WAVES 25th National Convention Charm, 1967.
Norma Martell Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 30 April 1999.
Marie M. Mason Collection
Marie M. Mason (b. 1916), of Swan Quarter, North Carolina, served overseas in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.
This collection includes March 2011 oral history transcript and scanned photographs.
Mary Haynsworth Mathews Collection
Mary Haynsworth Mathews was born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1916. She served with the American Red Cross in England, France, and Germany from 1942 to 1946. Included in this collection are an oral history and photographs.
Audrey Knyrim Mattern Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 December 1999; various photographs of Mattern's Marine Corps Women's Reserve service, 1943-1945.
Ruth White Matthews Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Matthews service with the Red Cross in Okinawa, Japan; a scrapbook; a pictorial review of Red Cross in Japan, January 1946; a booklet titled "Jones Cove Road Memories and Stories," December 2004; an oral history transcript, 2 June 1999.
Virginia Gilbert Mattson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 January 1999; 2 Navy WAVES publications, 1946; a photograph of Mattson in uniform, circa 1941-1945; a victory medal; an American Campaign medal.
Nancy Mayes Collection
Nancy Mayes (1921-2016) served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and the American Red Cross (ARC) during World War II, and in the Air Force Reserves for over twenty-five years. She was a charter member of the Women Military Pilots Association, Inc. (now Women Military Aviators).
The collection includes an oral history transcript, Women Air Force Service Pilots Memorial Papers, and Women Air Force Service Pilots Mixed Materials.
Fannie Griffin McClendon Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 July 2019; scanned photographs of McClendon's time in the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1951.
Bertha Nichols McClure Oral History
Bertha "Nicki" Nichols McClure (b. 1921) of Greensboro, North Carolina served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) during World War II and the Korean War. During World War II she was stationed at Guam, Iwo Jima, and Saipan during combat operations in the Pacific.
The collection includes a 2010 February 19 oral history transcript.
Bernice B. McCormack Collection
The collection includes an overseas duty ribbon; Army Nurse Corps brown/white striped seersucker laced cap; olive drab garrison cap, includes gold/.black piping of rank and caduceus, circa 1943; McCormack's diary, 1942-1944; military papers, including newspaper clippings, of Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1948; memoir of WWII service, 2000.
Shirley McCorquodale Lyle Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 November 1999; various photographs of Lyle's Army Nurse Corps service, 1943-1955.
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.
Jeanne M. McGovern Collection
Jessie E. McIntyre Collection
Judy McKinnon Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2001; a portrait photograph of McKinnon in summer uniform, circa 1944.
Rosetta McMahon Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 2007; scan of portrait photograph of McMahon in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) uniform, circa 1945.
Margaret J. McNulty Collection
Maggie V. McPherson Collection
The collection includes printed materials; including newsletters; booklets; yearbooks; and clippings especially from her time in Korea. Also, it includes 3 scrapbooks that document McPherson's Red Cross service, 1947-1959; additional scrapbook of club service at Double Five, Osan, Korea, 1959-1960.
Gertrude McSpiritt Collection
The collection includes a Memoir, circa 1999; School Group Presentations Speeches, circa 1999; photocopies of photograph, 1943-1945; photograph, 1999; Correspondence between McSpiritt and the Army, 1995-1996; "Air Transport Command; What Does it Signify? What Does it Mean to You? What Does the WAC Do in the ATC?;" circa 1943-1944.
Janet Muriel Mead Collection
The collection contains letters written by Mead to her parents throughout her military career, as well as during the mid-1950s. Photographs in the collection include images of Meade, her friends in the WAVES and U.S. Navy, and Naval Air Station Seattle.
Martha Redding Mendenhall Collection
The collection includes an Air Navigation student workbook, December 1945; a training syllabus for Air Navigation course, December 1945; various photographs during and after Mendenhall's WAVES service, 1943-1991; a Flying Trainer handbook, May 1943; various procedure papers, undated; an oral history transcript, including audio cassette tape, 28 May 1999.
Idelle Singletary Meng Scrapbook
Scrapbook contains newspaper and newsletter clippings; including "WAC of the Week" columns; military documents and handbooks; photographs; small banner; letters; and ephemera including "WAC Songs" and her WAC application.
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