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This photograph album documents the early days of the Women in the Air Force Program including some of the earliest African American 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.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 September 2005; various photographs of her Army Nurse Corps service, 1964-1995.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 30 October 2008.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 April 1999; various photographs of Allegrone's Navy WAVES service, 1943-1945.

This collection includes 1 August 2006 oral history transcript; portrait photograph of Pauline Allison in Navy Nurse Corps blue outdoor uniform and service cap, circa 1943; headshot of Pauline with her uniform; and photograph of Pauline while in the Navy Nurse Corps white outdoor service uniform and matching service cap, circa 1944.

Ann Holder Andavall (b. 1921), of Ashland, Oregon, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) as an aerial gunnery instructor during World War II.

The collection includes a 2008 December oral history transcript, 2 photographs, and a United States Pensacola Naval Station Specialist School Diploma.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 December 2000; photographs of Elaine during her services as a WAC in Germany, 1949-1952; military payment certificates in five and ten cent denominations.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 January 1999; various photographs of Anderton's WAVES service, 1943-1946; correspondence with her mother, 14 August and 13 September 1945.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 September 2000; a photograph of Austell in uniform, 1943.

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.

The collection includes a WAC plaque, 1954; photographs of Bacon’s service with the Women's Army Corps; various military papers, 1948-1962; various newspaper clippings, 1942-1952, 1978.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 April 1999; various photographs of Bailey's time with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), 1943-1946; a booklet from the Naval Reserve Midshipman's School, 1943; various military papers; an officer hat insignia; Navy discharge pin.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 January 2000; Navy military papers, 1944-1946; various correspondence, 1945-1946; various photographs of Bailey's Navy WAVES service, 1943-1946; various newspaper clippings, 1943-1946; personal memoirs of Bailey's WAVES service, undated.

The collection includes photographs of Bailey in her Women’s Army Corps uniform, 1959-1971; various newspaper clippings, 1958-2000; various personal papers, including a copy of Bailey’s biography, October 1971; publication titled “Conversations between Brigadier General Mildred C. Bailey and Lieutenant Colonel Rhoda M. Messer,” September 1978; an oral history transcript, 26 May 1999.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 February 1999; photographs of Baker's Army Air Force service and after, 1944-1999.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 February 2007; Women in the Military Memorial booklet,1997; photocopy of article "Merchant Vessels Beome Mercy Ships" not dated; various photographs of Jean during service and later in life printed from the UNCG website.

This collection includes May 2014 oral history transcript; photographs; recruiting brochures; 1992-1993 issues of Round Robinette newsletters; identification cards; newspaper clipping; and other miscelleaneous materials from her time with the SRAO American Red Cross.

4 photo albums, NAS Da Nang 1966-67 Yearbook, plaque, certificates, photographs, poster, 2 caps, and insignia

This collection includes Dress Blue Jacket; White Dress Shirt; Collar Tie; Dress Blue Skirts; Sweater "Wooly Pully" white dress uniform peaked cap; summer garrison cap; winter olive green garrison cap; shirt tabs; wool scarf; blue dress uniform jacket; pair of black dress shoes. photograph of "Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island SC Platoon 6A and 6B.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 July 1999; 2 photographs of Sheppe during her American Red Cross service, circa 1945.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 November 2000; a portrait photograph of Barwikowski in uniform, circa 1944.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 September 2010.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 31 August 2005; correspondence to Bonnie with UNCG Women's Veterans Archivists 2005-2006; various photographs of Baxter and friends during her United States Coast Guard SPARs service, circa 1944-1946.

The collection includes Bayne's Women's Army Corps hat, 2 Women's Army Corps issued purses, olive drab enlisted winter uniform, a brown blouse, skirt and jacket with 4 gold buttons embossed with United States Great Seal, and 1 Women's Army Corps olive drab enlisted garrison cap with gold and green piping.

Ora T. Beatty served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II.

The collection includes 2 letters of recommendation from Beatty's family physician and school principal to consider for WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), personal correspondence, and Navy Training Course certificate. Oversize Box 2 The Stethoscope United States Naval Hospital newsletter and a photograph of Beatty.

The collection includes 4 copies of photographs.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 March 1999; various military papers from Becker's Navy WAVES service, 1943-1944; Navy WAVES publications, 1943-1944; “Sounding Off” newsletter, 29 June-27 July 1943; photographs of Becker in uniform, 1943-1945; WAVES black leather shoulder bag; WAVES wool havelock.

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.

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.

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 March 2012; various scanned photographs, circa 1971-1973.

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.