Women veterans
Found in 694 Collections and/or Records:
Marthalou Hunter Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various photographs of Hunter during her service for Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; various poetry written by Hunter.
Yardley Nelson Hunter Collection
Dr. Yardley Nelson Hunter (b. 1953), of Buffalo, New York, served as an officer in public relations in the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard from 1975 through 1997. Hunter was one of the first female officers to enter the Air Force Academy.
This collection includes October 2010 oral history transcript; a name tag from the Air Force Academy.
Portia Hunter Correspondence
This collection includes Correspondence from Hunter to her brother, January 1944 to March 1945; Correspondence to Evelyn Crick Hunter from her siblings Don and Genny Crick. SEE ALSO the Genevieve Crick collection.
Grace Illman Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 January 2006.
Henrietta Stevenson Ingram Collection
The collection includes photographs of Ingram while stationed at Douglas Army Air Force Base, AZ, March 1944; an oral history transcript, 3 February 1999.
Madge P. Selstead Inman and Marvin R. Inman Correspondence
Paula Silverman Isenberg Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 February 2011.
Marjorie L. Jackson Collection
The collection consists of 123 letters written by Jackson to her fiance, Henry Heusinkveld, from February through August 1945, while Jackson was stationed in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and later, Louisville, Kentucky. While the letters contain some information on Jackson's day-to-day life as a WAC, they focus primarily on the couple's personal relationship.
Wilma Leona Jackson Uniform Collection
Wilma Leona Jackson served in the Navy Nurse Corps from 1936-1958. She served as the third director of the Navy Nurse Corps from 1954-1958. The collection consists of navy uniforms and uniform accessories.
M.V. Ginger Jacocks Collection
This collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 May 2011; various scanned photographs, circa 1990-1997.
Patsy James Letter
The collection includes a June 1944 letter addressed to James' mother in Valley Park, Missouri. James writes about her experiences taking the train and the bus to get to the base at Algiers.
Arlene Chalifoux Jeffers Collection
Textile Box contains MP Armband; Daisy Mae Hat; Chamois Scarf; Overseas Cap, 1942-1946.
Vera Rackley Jenkins Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 May 1999.
Leona "Evelyn" Jensen Collection
Leona "Evelyn" Jensen joined the United States Navy WAVES in the summer of 1944. She worked in a United States naval hospital located in Seattle, Washington during World War II. Her scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, U.S. naval hospital newspapers called The Stethoscope, letters, postcards, patient tags, and drawings.
Shirley F. John Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 February 2002; various photographs of John's in her forest green Marines uniform, circa 1954-1955.
Carol Alban Johnson Collection
Carol Lorraine Johnson Collection
Two folders and a scrapbook. The scrapbook includes several brochures from Japan and Utah, letters from the Red Cross, and letters written to her mother. A manila folder includes various clippings from where Johnson was stationed and the second manila folder contains paperwork for a recommendation from a Red Cross Field Director, along with letters from her mother and possibly a gentleman who was her brother and various newspaper clippings.
Juanita J Johnson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 January 2002; a copy of Johnson's Report of Separation from the Armed Forces of the United States, 31 August 1954.
Marjory Johnson Collection
The collection includes a 1999 October oral history and photographs, 1945-1946.
Mildred Smith Johnson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 December 2000; a photograph, circa 2000.
Paula J. Johnson Collection
The collection includes 3 photograph copies of Johnson in uniform during her training in Washington, D.C., circa 1952; 3 photograph copies of Johnson's husband, Gene, circa 1953; an 8 June 2001 oral history transcript.
Elna Allran Jones Collection
Hazel Jones Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 30 January 2002; various photographs of Jones during her Army Nurse Corps service, circa 1943-1950.
Jada Jones Collection
This collection includes November 2015 oral history transcript; photographs; correspondence.
Jane Beetham Jones Collection
This collection includes 2006 Oral History transcript; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clipping, and scrapbook. Newsletters and clipping contain articles that feature Jones in the Marines. The scrapbook contains photographs, additional clippings, and papers related to Jones's military service. Nineteen black-and-white photographs show a recruiting event at Broadhead Armory in Detroit in the early 1950s, a Marine Corps League convention, and Jones on the job in the late 1960s.
Linda R. Jones Collection
This collection includes April 2011 oral history transcript; a journal, Jan-Feb 1991; photocopies of travel authorizations; photocopy of Third United States Army's Central Region Area Orientation booklet; photocopy of a photograph of Jones in uniform; Red Cross-issued deck of cards; and Red Cross desert camouflage uniform (jacket, pants with belt, daisy mae hat,boots).
Olene Brumbles Jones Collection
The collection includes a copy of Navy discharge papers, 1945; photographs of Olene in casual clothes and uniform, circa 1943-45.
Dorothy H. Jordan Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 May 1999; various photographs of Jordan during her Women's Army Corps service, 1944-1945; various military papers, circa 1944; a Women's Army Corps booklet, 1984.
Ellen Jordan Collection
The collection includes a 1999 December oral history; Jordan at boot camp graduation in Camp Wolters, Texas; and various copies of photographs from Jordan's time at Camp Wolters, 1944-1945.
Florence Bevins and Phyllis Jung Collection
Anna Kalar Textiles
This collection includes one white glove, a button, and a white scarf.
Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 November 2000; a “Song and Service Book for Ship and Field: Army and Navy,” 1942; a copy of Honorable Discharge paperwork, 21 February 1946; various photographs of Kaplowitz while serving in the Women's Army Corps (WAC), circa 1945; Artifact Box includes a bag of WAC Veteran's Association souvenir buttons; bottle openers.
Catherine G. Katopes Collection
The collection includes personal correspondence, circa 1941 to 1945; newspaper clippings from Katopes friend, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1942; newspaper clipping on Katopes service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) and given to recruiting officer; 3 photographs of Katopes friends; small envelope with 16 artist renderings of locations in Coolangatta, Queensland, and Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.
Anita May Gahn Keller Collection
Anita May Gahn Keller (1923-2011), of St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C., served as a civilian in the Air Transport Command and Signal Corps from 1942 to 1946.
The collection includes a 11 January 2000 oral history transcript; photographs of Anita in uniform with friend and mother in Miami, 1943.
Cindy Kempkes Collection
The Cindy Kempkes Papers date from 1979-2013 with the bulk from 1979. The majority of the items are photographs and U.S. military manuals. There is also an Amendment to the H.R. 1960 involving the exposure of the residents of Fort McClellan to toxic chemicals.
Julia Tamer Kerr Collection
Marie Kevensky Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 November 1999.
Jo Anne Kilday Collection
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.
Marian "Mac" McBurney Kilgore Photograph Album
This photograph album entitled "Navy Days at Anacostia" contains photographs documenting Kilgore's service in the WAVES.
Katie S. King Collection
The collection contains a 2005 oral history transcript; photographs; military materials (facsimiles), 1944-1948; educational materials (facsimiles), 1947-1948, 1997; and religious materials (facsimiles), 1968-2005.
Shelley Whitzke Kirk Collection
Shelley Witzke Kirk (b. 1963), of Bethesda, Maryland, served in the United States Navy from 1981-2005.
The collection includes a 2016 February oral history transcript.
Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick Collection
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.
Christine M. Knott Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 August 2010; two Chief Warrant Officer dress service hats: 1 dress blue with insignia; 1 olive drab without insignia.
Jane Fraley Kodack Collection
Jane Fraley Kodack (1947-2013), of Thomasville, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1981 to 1993. Kodack received the Army Commendation medal for rendering extraordinary medical assistance during a 1989 artillery training accident at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
The collection includes a 2009 October 1 oral history transcript and several scanned photographs.
BJ Kramer Collection
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.
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.