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Women marines -- Interviews

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Elizabeth "Betsy" Blee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0538
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1960-1993; Majority of material found within 1975-1993; Other: Date acquired: 2012 September 21

Donna Barr Brown Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0607
Content Description

This collection includes military papers; April 2016 oral history transcript; scans of photographs.

Dates: 1970-1973, 2016

Jeannine Marie Franz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0612
Content Description

This collection includes May 2016 oral history transcript; copies of photographs; Series 4030 1996 Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina yearbook; Women Marine Association Iraqi Lioness Chapter challenge coin.

Dates: 1996-2016

Sydney Gallegos Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0716
Abstract

Sydney Gallegos (b. 1997), of Fort Smith, Arkansas, served in the United States Marine Corps from 2015-2021.

The collection includes a 2022 February oral history transcript, hat device, copies of certificates, military papers, Parris boot camp yearbook, and USMC 2015.

Dates: 2015-2022

Joan E. Gerichten Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0109
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 October 1999; photographs of Joan while and after serving in Marine Corps, 1961-1986; 2 Woodland Camouflage uniforms; 3 tan shirts; 2 green skirts; green slacks; green necktab; 2 staff Sergeant Rank patches.

Dates: 1961-1999

Katherine Faye Giles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0215
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 May 2001; OS Box 1 contains portrait photograph of graduating class of sergeant school 1st class c 1944; newspaper clipping of Katherine's wedding while in service in Marine Corps in Cherry Point, SC, not dated; photocopy of Katherine in page of a National Geographic 1943 article "Bound fpr Boot Camp"; Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point SC pictoral booklet of base; Booklets "Meet Molly Marine" and This is it Cherry Point", circa 1945;...
Dates: 1943-1945, 2001

Barbara E. Gove Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0152
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 December 2000; various photographs; various certificates; various personal papers, including biographical; a male Marine Corps dress uniform, 2000s.

Dates: 1954-2000

Dorothy Mae Griffin Rice Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0112
Content Description

The collection includes 1999 October 31 oral history transcript; photograph of Dorothy with Marine Recruiting Office staff in Denver, Colorado,1944; photograph of Dorothy flight clearance staff at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, California,1945 and a Marine Corps Shoulder Bag.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Eleanor Steinhebel Gurney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0131
Abstract

Eleanor Gurney (b. 1934), of Detroit, Michigan, served in the Women Marines from May 1953 until 1954.

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and 2 photographs, 1 with Gurney and 1 with Gurney and friend at Parris Island, 1953.

Dates: circa 1953 to 1954

Dolores Angel Hamrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0513
Scope and Contents This collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 April 2011; photographs (circa 1955, Women Marine Baseball Practice, 2nd MC Camp's Basketball 1954-55, 11th NavDist Softball Champs 1955, Camp Del Mar, The Pala Mission Gang '55, Camp Pendleton All Marine Corps Women Champion Basketball team, Platoon 16-A Woman Recruit Battalion Parris Island SC 1954, Shoe Repair Shop, Miss Carlsbad 1955); Newspaper clippings (Camp Pendleton Basketball Champions); military papers; and a basic training...
Dates: 1954-1957, 2011

Valeria F. Hilgart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0158
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 March 2000; a photograph of Hilgart's Marine Corps service, 1980.

Dates: circa 1980-2000

Gail S. Enter Horn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0514
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 April 2011; "Diamond in the Ruff" class 4029 flag circa 1993-1994; graduation invitation; photographs; cd of photographs.

Dates: 1994-2011

M.V. Ginger Jacocks Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0518
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 May 2011; various scanned photographs, circa 1990-1997.

Dates: 1990-2011

Jo Anne Kilday Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0520
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 May 2011; 5 scanned photographs that include her time as a Marine and even as a member of the Camp Lejeune Women Marines basketball team, circa 1960.

Dates: 1960-2011

Linda Cates Lacy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0515
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 April 2011; histories of Women Marines in World War I and United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve Band compiled by Lacy; a scrapbook page; photographs; DVD-R audio slide show of a history of women serving in the United States Marines Corps; a CD-R of the song March of the Women Marines; 2008 Women Marines Association calendar; 2010 Women's Memorial service women calendar.

Dates: 1970s-2010s

Maryelln Powers Laskowski Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0247
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 February 2002; various photographs of Maryelln during her service, 1942-1954; a copy of passport application, undated.

Dates: 1952-1954

Audrey Knyrim Mattern Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0043
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 December 1999; various photographs of Mattern's Marine Corps Women's Reserve service, 1943-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Adelaide Murphy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0240
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 January 2002; various photographs of Murphy's Women's Marine Corps service, circa 1943-1945; "Let me Fight: Women's Marine Corps Reserve stamps; Buccaneer newsletter, 11 January 1945; photocopy of the Atlanta Journal front page with the United States Marine Corps cover dated June 29, 1943; official military paperwork with Adelaide's promotional rank, 1945; copy of "The Word for personal Reporting Aboard Beachland WR Barracks" detailing...
Dates: 1942-1945

Marian Murphy Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0711
Content Description The 1944 scrapbook includes photographs of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve Band at their home base of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina or on tour at Parris Island, South Carolina, Washington DC, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. These include images of concerts, rehearsals, the band on parade, the band’s tour bus, band members relaxing, a photo of the Women’s Reserve Dance Band (a swing band), photos of band director Charlotte Plummer, and more. Other items include six mimeographed concert programs for...
Dates: 1944

Rosie Grosshans Noel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0516
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 April 2011; various scanned photographs, circa 2005.

Dates: 2005-2011

Edna Painter Searles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0106
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Searles in Marine Corps Women's Reserve uniform, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Jessica Rambo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0653
Content Description The collection includes a 20 March 2019 oral history transcript; a woodland camouflage maternity uniform pants with long sleeve shirt; 2 green short sleeve tee shirts; khaki dress short sleeve shirt with rank patches on arms; 2 khaki dress short sleeve shirt without rank patches; 2 khaki dress long sleeve shirt with rank patches on arms; maternity dark green pressed pants; 2 dark green pressed pants; grey Eisenhower style jacket; a desert maternity uniform with pants and a long sleeve shirt;...
Dates: circa 2006-2016

Barbara Finamore Robertson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0657
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 May 2019; photograph copies of Robertson's service with the United States Marine Corps, 2011-2014; copies of Certificates from the Marine Corps, 1 November 2011-13 April 2017.

Dates: 2011-2019

Mary Amanda Sabourin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0100
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 1999; a green and white pinstriped summer uniform, including dress, jacket, white gloves, and garrison cap for Marine Corps Women's Reserve, 1952.

Dates: 1952-1999

C.J. Gray Grafton Scarlet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0590
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 July 2015; various photographs of Scarlet's Marine Corps service, 1981-1984.

Dates: 2015 July 27

Stephanie Weber Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0658
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 June 2019; photographs of Weber's service with the United States Marine Corps, 2011.

Dates: 2011-2019