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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Women

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Rita A. Barbraitis Collection

 File
Identifier: WV 0564
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1960s- 2014

Mary F. Cannon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0411
Content Description

Mary F. Cannon (1921-2012) of Chicago, Illinois, was stationed in Korea while a member of the Army Nurse Corps from 1951 to 1953 and in Vietnam during her service with the Navy Nurse Corps from 1958 to 1974.

This collection includes April 2008 oral history interview transcript available for use onsite in the archives, copies of photographs.

Dates: 2008 April 24

Nancy M. Christ Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0408
Content Description

Nancy Margaret Christ of North Brunswick, New Jersey, served as a nurse in the United States Army Nurse Corps from 1961 to 1981. Christ earned a Bronze Star for her service during the Vietnam War and retired as a lieutenant colonel.

This Collection includes 23 March 2008 oral history transcript; Tape of "Til the white dove flies alone" by Crystal Gayle made to commemorate the Vietnam Women's Memorial, Washington D.C. November 11, 1993.

Dates: 1993 November 11-2008 March 23

Dale Dempsey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0456
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of Paige during her work with the Red Cross in Cam Ranh Bay; South Vietnam circa 1968; Newspaper article from the Greensboro record dated 4 March 1972 featuring Paige on her service in the Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) during the Vietnam War. American Red Cross News Service typed copy on letterhead about Paige's experiences in the Red Cross during the Vietnam war.

Dates: 1968-1972

Alice Park Fairbrother Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0409
Content Description

Alice Park Fairbrother of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a physical therapist in the United States Army Medical Specialist Corps from 1965 till 1968.

This Collection includes 1 April 2008 oral history transcript; United States Army Physical Therapy Class # 1, August 1966; photograph of plaque with "Outstanding Graduate 2LT Alice H. Park Physical Therapy Course Medical Field Service School 1966" on the inscription plate.

Dates: 1966-2008

Lena Burch Gallitano Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0646
Content Description

This collection includes May 2019 oral history transcript; photographs; clippings; certificates; John L. Hennessy Trophy Awards booklet.

Dates: 1967-1971, 2018

Wendy P. Gellert Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0493
Content Description Wendy Payor Gellert (b. 1947) of New Brunswick, New Jersey, served as a chief photographer's mate and a recruit intstructor in the United States Navy WAVES and the Navy from 1966-1992. She retired in 1992 as a command master chief. This collection contains a June 2010 oral history transcript; military papers; copies of photographs of both Gellert and also those taken by her in her role as a United States Navy photographer. The collection also includes copies of Rudder; the...
Dates: 1974-2010

Claudia Butler Geniton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0511
Content Description

Claudia Butler Geniton (b. 1953), of Atlanta, Georgia served in the United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) and United States Army from 1971 to 1983 on active duty, and the United States Army Reserve from 1983 to 1994, serving during both the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War. This collection includes March 2011 oral history transcript; photographs; a newspaper clipping about Geniton and a green class A dress uniform jacket.

Dates: 2011 March 26

Diane Getz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0454
Content Description

The collection includes a 10 March 2009 oral history transcript; a photograph of Getz while working at her desk, circa 1975; a South Vietnam flag.

Dates: circa 1975, 2009

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

Mary (Larry) Young Hines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0591
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 August 2015; scans of photographs of Hines American Red Cross service, 1968-69.

Dates: circa 1968 to 1969

Carol Alban Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0413
Content Description Carol A. Johnson (1944-2022), of Columbus, Ohio, served in the United States Women's Army Corps from 1964 till 1968. She served in the office of the secretary of the army during the Vietnamese Tet Offensive. This collection includes 1 May 2008 oral history transcript; program and paperwork for the Star Spangled Pageant, a touring exhibit presenting the history of women's association with the United States Army, circa 1967; copy of the Army Commendation Medal with letter, circa...
Dates: 1966-2008

BJ Kramer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0582
Content Description

The collection includes a 22 April 2015 oral history transcript; a photograph of Kramer in uniform; 2 typed poems; military papers discussing a hospital remodel at Fort Riley and a copy of Vietnam's United States barracks; various newspaper clippings and full length issues, 1979.

Dates: circa 1961-1983

Linda Morgan Maini Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0406
Content Description

Linda Morgan Maini (b. 1943) of Buffalo, New York, and Cleveland, Ohio, served in the American Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) from 1965 to 1969.

This collection includes a 8 March 2008 oral history transcript; newspaper articles concerning Linda Morgan Maini's service in the Red Cross, circa 1967-1968. Copy of Red Cross unit including Linda.

Dates: 1967 November 30- 2008 March 03

Maribeth Snyder Peters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0530
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 March 2012; various scanned photographs, circa 1968-1971.

Dates: 1969-2012

Kathleen Deschamps Poole Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0696
Content Description

The collection includes a green camo blanket; a hand carved Montagnard ladle, arrows, and quiver; a 1st Cavalry patched boonie hat; a Vietnam poetry book titled, "Boondock Bards", various photographs; a bronze star medal with citation; a reel to reel tape of "Armed Forces Radio," 1970.

Dates: 1969-1970

Marcia Jones Snow Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0600
Content Description

This collection includes December 2015 oral history transcript; copies of photographs; and Vietnamese safe conduct pass.

Dates: 1965-1972, 1977-1981, 2015

Dale Augusta Van Vacter Angers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0159
Content Description

The collection includes photograph of Angers in uniform, circa 1940s; handwritten timeline of service.

Dates: circa 1942-1963

J. Holley Watts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0407
Content Description

J. Holley Watts (b. 1944) of Rockville Centre, New York, served in the American Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) program from 1966 to 1967 and was stationed in Vietnam.

This collection includes a 9 March 2008 oral history transcript; copies of photographs.

Dates: 2008 March 09

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