World War, 1939-1945
Found in 400 Collections and/or Records:
Betty Hyatt Caccavale Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 June 1999; photographs of Betty on her wedding day, 1945; various photocopies of newspaper clippings, 1943-1994; various military papers, undated.
Meredith Campbell Collection
The collection includes 2007 oral history and copies of photographs.
Agnes Cantwell Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 May 1999; a copy of a New York Times article titled, "New Army Nurses Depart for Camp," 2 March 1945; various photographs of Cantwell's Army Nurse Corps service, 1945-1946.
Ellen V. Carter Collection
The collection includes "My Life in the Service" diary/autograph book, 1942-1943; 15 photographs of Carter's time with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and Women's Army Corps (WAC), 1942-1945.
Nancy E. Carter Family Collection
Violet K. Caudle Collection
The collection includes various photograph copies of Caudle's service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC), 1945-1948; 2 copies of Honorable Discharge certificate, 9 July 1949; an oral history transcript, 20 April 1999.
Catherine Cayle Collection
The collection includes various correspondence among a close friend, Mrs. James R. Dickson, while Cayle was stationed at the Edgewood Arsenal, 23 November 1942-7 April 1945.
Kathryn B. Cerwinski Photograph Album
Lola Forbes Chaconas Collection
The collection includes Honorable Discharge paperwork, 1944; obituary, circa 1988; Veterans Administration ID card, no date; photograph (copy), circa 1942 to 1944; khaki uniform, jacket and skirt, circa 1942 to 1944; overseas cap, circa 1944; Women's Army Corps (WAC) ribbon, circa 1944.
Mary Markarian Charpentier Collection
The collection contains photographs; honorable discharge papers; correspondence from Charpentier to her children in Nashua, New Hampshire; and copies of correspondence and photographs.
Marguerite V. Clodfelter Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 January 1999; various photographs of Clodfelter’s service with U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, undated; various publications for the Cadet Nurse Corps, 1943-1999; various personal papers, including Cadet Nurse Corps uniform descriptions, 1948-1955 and undated; 2 Cadet Nurse/ Cadet Nurse Corps/ United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps insignia Lapel Pins; 2 Cadet Nurse Buttons.
Marie Cody Collection
Correspondence from Donald M. Downey to Cody, 1945-1946; Downey's other correspondence, 1937-1946, 1956-1959 and undated; Miscellaneous newsletter and newspaper clippings, circa 1940s.
Dorothy Coley Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 November 1999; various photographs of Coley's American Red Cross service and graduation from Women's College, 1940-1982; Artifact Box 1 contains American Red Cross Consignee pin.
Julia "Judy" Houk Cooley Collection
The collection includes digitized photographs of Cooley in uniform, circa 1944-1947; Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) garrison cap insignia and collar insignia; a 12 March 2009 oral history transcript.
Anna Jean Coomes Woods Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 January 1999; 4 photographs of Woods during her service, circa 1944; a Navy blue uniform with hat and tie; a Navy blue overcoat; a seersucker summer uniform with hat.
Charlotte G. Coppage Collection
The collection includes a Military Intelligence Division War Department Certificate of Appreciation, 1945.
Ruth Coster Collection
The collection includes a 2000 February 4 oral history transcript; a handwritten military highlights timeline; a copy of an official Honorable Discharge paperwork; newspaper clippings, 1944 to 1946 and 1994; copies of photographs during Coster's service, 1944 to 1945; and copy of Coster's time at Women in Military Service for America Memorial (WIMSA), 1997.
Jane Hydes Council Collection
The collection includes a 1999 June oral history transcript; photocopies of Council in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform with basic training group, Daytona Beach, Florida; photograph of Council in jeep for the Motor Pool Transport Training, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1943; photocopy of Certificate of Honorable Discharge from the Army, 1944; and copies of Army Discharge paperwork.
Violet Cowden Collection
The collection includes a photograph of Cowden in cockpit, circa 1943; a portrait photograph of her in A-2 leather jacket, undated; a photograph of her on wing of plane, circa 1943; a photograph of Cowden while parachuting, 2006; a photograph of Cowden after completing a tandem jump, 2006; an oral history transcript, 3 May 2007; a DVD "Wings of Silver: the Vi Cowden Story", located in WV0002 General Printed Materials and Video Recordings Collection.
Helen Louise Cowgill Collection
Helen Louise Cowgill (1919-2008) of Syracuse, New York, was a segeant in the U.S. Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1945 until 1948.
This collection contains correspondence 1945-1948 by Helen Cowgill, one newspaper clipping, and a letter from Cowgill's brother William.
Catherine "Kay" Cox Collection
The collection contains approximately fifty letters written by Cox to Robert W. Curwen (1921-2008), a friend in the U.S. Army Air Forces, during World War II. The letters contain information on Cox's duties in the WAC and her thoughts on the U.S. Army. Included is a copy of the 14 March 1944 Pill Pusher, the newspaper of the Stark General Army Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina.
Geneva Spratt Craig Collection
Geneva Spratt Craig (b. 1919), of Dysartsville, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1943 to 1946.
This collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 November 2010; various scanned photographs.
Genevieve Crick Collection
Beatrice L. Crisler Letter
This collection includes a letter dated 27 November 1943. Crisler describes her living conditions at her posting in India.
Margaret Helen "June" Crowel Collection
Margaret "June" Crowel of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, served in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve from May 1945 to 1979.
31 December 1999 oral history transcript; photographs, 1945 and 1971.
Ruth E. Curtis Collection
Ruth Curtis served with the American Red Cross in the China-India-Burma theater during World War II.
Seven letters from Ruth Curtis to her family in Springfield, Massachusetts, trace her travels to India in late 1945 and early 1946.
Mildred D. Dalrymple Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 28 December 2005; various newspaper clippings, September-December 1944 and September 2002; various photographs, circa 1944.
Martha Davis Collection
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis Collection
This is a fully digitized collection that includes February 2021 oral history transcript and scans of photographs.
Coralee "Coco" Burson Davis Collection
Coralee "Coco" Burson Davis (1921-2016), of Pasadena, California, served in the Coast Guard SPARS from 1942-1946 and was a member of the Tars and Spars musical revue and movie cast.
Patricia Keegan Delaney Collection
Josephine L. DePietro Collection
Mary Jane DeWan Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 28 January 1999; various photographs of DeWan’s service with the Army Nurse Corps, 1943-1945; a newspaper clipping titled “Wedding Told” announcing her wedding, 4 December 1945.
F. Dewitt Collection
In the diary, Dewitt discusses training and preparations for her departure to Casablanca; her voyage sailing overseas on the ship the Louis Pasteur; living conditions in Casablanca and the Mateur Airfield in Tunisia; her experiences in the military hospitals there; her interactions with German and Italian prisoners of war; and her social activities.
Mary C. Dickson Collection
Edna L. Snow Morris Dillman Letters
This collections has 65 letters that begin in June 1943-September 1944.
Ellen Mercer Diming Collection
The collection includes a photograph of Diming in her WAVES overcoat and biographical information recorded during her oral history interview, handwritten.
Gladys L. Dimmick Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 March 1999; Navy WAVES uniform jacket and skirt; 3 Navy WAVES hats and a pair of gloves; a black leather WAVES shoulder bag; 3 medals for Dimmick’s service; 7 photographs of Dimmick’s service with the Navy WAVES and during retirement, 1943-1997.
Rosemarie Dodd Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 January 1999; 2 photographs of Dodd and her regiment, 1944; magazine copy of All Hands publication, July 1972; newspaper clipping from High Point Enterprise publication, November 1998.
Louise Nash Dorsett Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 January 1999; a copy of document from Navy's Bureau of Ships, April 1946; various photographs of Dorsett's service with the Navy WAVES, 1943-1945; a Navy WAVES uniform.
Daphine Doster Mastroianni Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 February 1999; newspaper clippings; copies of correspondence; "L.O.D. Yes: An Odyssey of the Army's 18th General Hospital" book; military papers; newsletters; programs/mixed materials; photographs.
Nadine Dotts Doucet Collection
WAVES uniform items worn by Nadine Doucet during World War II. Items include blue and white dress uniforms, shirts, and several hats and ties.
Jean Downer Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 February 2007.
Evelyn Louise Hux Drogos Uniform
This collection includes a World War II era Navy Nurse Corps blue service uniform and white service hat; large brass and metal eagle insignia pin; five ribbon pins ("Victory Loan", blue star, "5th").
Mary Gage Dunham Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 January 2000.
Marilyn Roberts (Bobbi) Earp Collection
The collection includes a 2000 June oral history transcript; Newspaper article photocopy from Whiteville, NC, 1989; portrait photograph of Marilyn in her Navy WAVES uniform; photographs of Marilyn and her husband during their service, 1945.
Maxine Virginia Easter Collection
Thelma Eaton Scrapbook
Scrapbook documents Eaton's service in the Air WAC during World War II. The scrapbook includes photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, id card, personal narrative, transcribed newspaper excerpt, and uniform patch.