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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 400 Collections and/or Records:

Betty Hyatt Caccavale Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0095
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Meredith Campbell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0397
Content Description

The collection includes 2007 oral history and copies of photographs.

Dates: 2007

Agnes Cantwell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0086
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1945-1999

Ellen V. Carter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0421
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1942-1945

Nancy E. Carter Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0322
Scope and Contents Correspondence to and from Nancy E. Carter beginning in 1942. Letters written by Carter between 1942 and 1943 describe her recruiting experience in the WAAC, basic training at Daytona Beach, her daily routine, and social activities. Lengthy letters from France between 1944 and 1945 include information about her daily life, accommodations, and entertainment activities. Specific subjects include attending ballets, operas, and USO shows, as well as shopping and sightseeing in Paris. A few...
Dates: 1942 - 1992

Violet K. Caudle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0066
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1945-1999

Catherine Cayle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0232
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Kathryn B. Cerwinski Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0710
Content Description Photograph album titled “Evolution of Kathryn B. Cerwinski from Civilian, First Class to Tech/Sgt, WAC, June 30, 1943 to March 20, 1946,” Other than the first four images, which show Cerwinski “fresh out of basic” at Fort Devens in Massachusetts, and around 26 photos of Cerwinski on furlough, the entirety of the album is devoted to her time with Headquarters Detachment at the WAC Third WAC Training Center, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, between 1944 and 1946. This includes portraits of Cerwinski...
Dates: 1943-1946

Lola Forbes Chaconas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0255
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1942-1988

Mary Markarian Charpentier Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0528
Content Description

The collection contains photographs; honorable discharge papers; correspondence from Charpentier to her children in Nashua, New Hampshire; and copies of correspondence and photographs.

Dates: circa 1940s

Marguerite V. Clodfelter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0024
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Marie Cody Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0157
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1937-1959

Dorothy Coley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0117
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1940-1999

Julia "Judy" Houk Cooley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0452
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1944-1947

Anna Jean Coomes Woods Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0019
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1946

Charlotte G. Coppage Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0164
Content Description

The collection includes a Military Intelligence Division War Department Certificate of Appreciation, 1945.

Dates: 1945

Ruth Coster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0145
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944-2000

Jane Hydes Council Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0093
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1943-1999

Violet Cowden Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0399
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1943; 2006

Helen Louise Cowgill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0475
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1945-1948; Other: Date acquired: 12/20/2009

Catherine "Kay" Cox Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0366
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1939-1968

Geneva Spratt Craig Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0505
Content Description

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.

Dates: 2010 November 18

Genevieve Crick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0306
Scope and Contents Letters from 1944 and 1945, some sent from Oregon and some from California, describe a few of Crick's day-to-day activities in the Women's Army Corps as well as many nonservice-related personal issues. Subjects include social activities; her engagement to Leonard Levy and their inability to get furloughs in order to get married; her new nephew and the rest of her family; descriptions of the scenery in Oregon and California; her work as a cashier at movie showings at the base; her night...
Dates: 1944 - 1945

Beatrice L. Crisler Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0365
Content Description

This collection includes a letter dated 27 November 1943. Crisler describes her living conditions at her posting in India.

Dates: 1943 November 27

Margaret Helen "June" Crowel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0137
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1945 to 1971

Ruth E. Curtis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0300
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1945 - 1946

Mildred D. Dalrymple Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0336
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 28 December 2005; various newspaper clippings, September-December 1944 and September 2002; various photographs, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-2005

Martha Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0447
Content Description The collection includes various correspondence, September 1942-November 1948; military papers, including orders and mixed materials, May 1945-June 1946; newspaper clippings and full newsletters, May 1944-June 1946; various personal papers, August 1945-April 1946; various photographs of fellow soldiers and of Davis during her time as Army Special Services librarian, circa 1946; various souvenirs, including postcards, undated; various published materials, including Guinea Gold, "Hitler dead...
Dates: 1942 February 06-1948 November 08, undated.

Romay Catherine Johnson Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0683
Content Description

This is a fully digitized collection that includes February 2021 oral history transcript and scans of photographs.

Dates: 1943-1948, 2021

Coralee "Coco" Burson Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0222
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1942-1946

Patricia Keegan Delaney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0209
Content Description 1 May 2001 oral hIstory transcript; Navy WAVES Newsletter "Sounding Off" dated June 22, 1943; photocopy of Booklet "How to serve your county in the WAVES of SPARS" (not dated) Patricia is photographed in this publication; Marching to Victory Booklet of songs and hymns for enlisted Navy WAVES servicemembers; various newspaper clippings 1943-1945; photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt with Navy Captian during WAVES review,1942; photograph of Patricia in front of the Northampton Tavern while...
Dates: 1942-1945

Josephine L. DePietro Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0461
Scope and Contents This collection consists of twenty-eight letters written to and from DePietro's friends and family. The collection begins with the letters written by DePietro when she attended nursing school; the last letter in the collection is addressed to her parents and discusses news from family and provides updates on her activities. Most of the letters are written to her; there are letters from her significant other Sam, who was stationed with the Army Air Force at Bowman Field in Kentucky. There are...
Dates: 1938-1945; Other: Date acquired: 2009 April 13

Mary Jane DeWan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0027
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

F. Dewitt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0245
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1943 April-1944 January

Mary C. Dickson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0465
Scope and Contents This collection contains paperwork detailing standard regulations of the United States Marines Women's Reserve (USMCWR), personal and official correspondence, newsletters, song lyrics, personnel sheets, an ID card, a bumper sticker, and a photograph. The personal letters written by Dickson to her family talk about her travel experiences and life in the Marines; however most of the collection consists of official correspondence. There is one photograph of her sitting at her desk with her...
Dates: 1943-1946; Other: Date acquired: 05/00/2009

Edna L. Snow Morris Dillman Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0652
Scope and Contents

This collections has 65 letters that begin in June 1943-September 1944.

Dates: 1943 June 06-1944 September 23

Ellen Mercer Diming Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0229
Content Description

The collection includes a photograph of Diming in her WAVES overcoat and biographical information recorded during her oral history interview, handwritten.

Dates: circa 1944-1946

Gladys L. Dimmick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0055
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1943-1999

Rosemarie Dodd Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0020
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Louise Nash Dorsett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0017
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1943 - 1946

Daphine Doster Mastroianni Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0038
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Nadine Dotts Doucet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0288
Scope and Contents

WAVES uniform items worn by Nadine Doucet during World War II. Items include blue and white dress uniforms, shirts, and several hats and ties.

Dates: circa 1940-1949

Jean Downer Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0386
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 February 2007.

Dates: 2007 February 21

Evelyn Louise Hux Drogos Uniform

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0484
Content Description

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").

Dates: circa 1945-1946

Mary Gage Dunham Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0143
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 January 2000.

Dates: 2000 January 16

Marilyn Roberts (Bobbi) Earp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0174
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1944-1949

Maxine Virginia Easter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0108
Content Description The collection includes a 1999 October oral history, names tags, ribbons, and insignia from service in the Navy as Chief Nurse from tour in Philippines, and a bronze dish with the Army Nurse Corps branch insignia in Artifact Box 1; Oversize Box stores Raleigh News and Observer 1945 August 15 article announcing Japanese surrender; local newspaper clippings from 1963 to 1980 highlighting Easter's career with the Navy Nurse Corps in Port Hueneme, CA, and photographs from nursing career...
Dates: circa 1942-1970

Thelma Eaton Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0650
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1940s