World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jessie E. McIntyre Collection
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.
Nan M. Nabors Letters
This collection includes Correspondence, 1944-1946. Though the majority of correspondence is personal in nature it presents insights into many different aspects of the military, including the urgent need for infantry, the relationship between officers and enlisted soldiers, life as a soldier, and Nabors's experiences as a female serving in the military.
Emily Newcity Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 September 2008.
Eleanor Neeva Northcott Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 April 1999; a poster with the phrase "Ah...At Last!", circa 1942-1945.
John "Jack" R. Nowlin Collection
This collection includes correspondence from Private Jack Nowlin to his mother from 1942 to 1945. Earlier letters identify his location as Chicago and some of the later letters mention being stationed in England. The letter dated August 18, 1942 mentions that he is preparing the barracks for the arrival of the WAACs to Fort Des Moines and includes a newspaper clipping about the WAAC barracks.
Edna Painter Searles Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Searles in Marine Corps Women's Reserve uniform, circa 1944.
Irene Parsons Collection
Ruth Kent Petker Collection
The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Petker in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES) uniform, circa 1943.
Geraldine Muse Phillips Collection
Geraldine Muse Phillips (b. 1927), of Birmingham, Alabama, and North Carolina served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from February 1949 until 1950.
The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Phillips in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform at school in Fort Lee, Virginia, circa 1949.
Helen Bolling Potts Collection
Collection consists of a 2003 oral history transcript; correspondence; photographs; postcards; newspaper clipping; custom made uniform (skirt and jacket); shirt; boots; and a 29th Rangers shoulder patch.
Annie Pozyck Collection
Dolores Reed Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 May 2007.
Jean Holdridge Reeves Oral History
The collection includes a 2007 February 14 oral history transcript.
Marguerite B. Robinson Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 January 2007.
Mary McLeod Rogers Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 December 1999; a booklet published for the Women Marines Association, circa 1992; various photographs of Rogers during her service with the Marines and after retirement, 1944-1999.
Buren Rose Oral History
Buren Rose (1919-2018) of Jefferson City, Missouri, served in the United States civil service at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center (now Lackland Air Force Base) where she was the driver for Colonel Morris Taber from 1942 to 1943.
The collection includes a 2008 November 5 oral history transcript.
Eveline Y. Santy Collection
Eveline Y. Santy (1919-2008) served in the United States Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1945.
The collection includes a service diary, military ID button, a military publication, and training manual.
Charlotte Lavone Schuck Collection
The collection includes 2 photographs of Schuck in uniform, circa 1943 to 1946; personal correspondence, 1942 December to 1947 July 4; Navy WAVES Newsletter, circa 1944; Conning Tower United States Naval Training School publication, circa 1944; Freemason Newsletter Ohio, circa 1944; and various newspaper clippings, 1943.
Nancy Featherhoff Sendelbach Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 May 2000; photographs of Sendelbach during her Women Air Force Service pilots service, 1943-1944; various clippings and Air Force papers, 1943-1995.
Norma Petree Shaver Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 May 2001; photographs of Norma in Manila, Philippines, 1945. Newspaper clippings, 1943; WAC certificate, 1943.
Helen Shoobridge Oral History
Helen Shoobridge served in the United States' Women's Army Corps [WAC] during World War Two in the United States, New Guinea, and the Philippines.
The collection includes a 2004 December oral history transcript.
Margaret Chamberlin Smith Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 June 2006; various photographs of Smith's Women AirForce Service Pilots (WASP) service, circa 1944.
Phyllis Hinton Snyder Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 February 2000; various photographs 1943-1944.
Rachel Brower Twiddy Collection
Millie Dunn Veasey Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various photographs of Veasey's Women's Army Corps service, 1944-1945; personal papers, including resume, undated.
Ann K. Watters Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 June 2000.
Juanita Webster Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 May 2000; a typed autobiography of Webster's service, 25 pages.
Edna Andrews Weston Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 June 1999; various photographs of Weston's Navy Nurse Corps service, January 1944-October 1946.
Mary Wheeler Collection
The collection includes 5 photographs and negatives, along with an interview questionnaire.
Nina Johnson Wiglesworth Collection
The collection includes a 1999 December 8 oral history transcript; a personal letter to Wiglesworth from a captain, 1944 October 25; photographs of Wiglesworth at Camp Lejeune and in Washington D.C. in uniform, circa 1943 to 1945.