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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 400 Collections and/or Records:

Lou A. Hedding Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0298
Abstract Lou A. Hedding served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II.An eight-page handwritten memoir dated May 1944 describes Hedding's train ride from Camp Maxey to Fort Oglethorpe; her overseas training in Georgia; and her journey to Lae, New Guinea. Subjects include Hedding's social activities and athletics; her work in the supply office at Fort Oglethorpe and in the mess car en route to California; the barracks and training at Camp Stoneman; a day trip to San Francisco; and...
Dates: 1944

Anna Louis Henderson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0218
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of The WAC Medical Detachment graduating class Company 8 of the 21st WAC Regiment, also posing by herself and with 2 patients from the Hospital where she served 1945; Handwritten photocopied essay from 2001 on working at the Finney General Hospital in Thomasville, GA, 1945; article on the "99th WAC Hospital Company", 1945.

Dates: circa 1945, 2001

Mary Ann Henning Moore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0102
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 July 1999; various Navy military papers, 1944-1946; a portrait photograph of Moore in Navy WAVES uniform, circa 1945; a transcription from "Virginia Society Dames in the Military," 1991.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Margaret Winston Henry Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0435
Content Description Margaret Winston Henry of Springdale, West Virginia, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) as a storekeeper during World War II. This collection includes 58 letters and one greeting card; dated May to December,1944.They are love letters sent by Henry to Pharmacy Mate Dallas S. Chambers at the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Brooklyn,New York. The letters focus primarily on Henry's and Chambers' relationship but...
Dates: 1944

Laura Henry Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0458
Scope and Contents

The Laura Henry Scrapbook has one scrapbook and three separate pages of Mount Holyoke Songs. The scrapbook has a wooden cover with images of a United States navy ship on it. It has approximately 58 pages and contains newspaper clippings, cards, menus from military base holiday lunches, and Laura Henry's official military identification cards.

Dates: 1944-1945; Other: Date acquired: 03/10/2009

Evelyn Henson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0214
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 May 2001; portrait photograph of Evelyn; Army Nurse Corps service uniform and garrison cap, circa 1945.

Dates: 1945, 2001

Lillie M. Henson Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0068
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 April 1999.

Dates: 1999 April 24

Bessie L. Herbert Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0303
Scope and Contents Photograph album contains pictures of Bessie L. Herbert and friends in various poses during her service in the WAC in World War II. Photos were taken at Camp Grant, Illinois; Fort Sheridan, Illinois; on leave in Brookfield, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; and downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Includes some photos of Herbert's family and many of her WAC colleagues. Topics include Herbert posing in front of a WAAC recruitment poster; scenery around Camp Grant in the winter of 1943-44 and...
Dates: 1943-1944

Helen Boileau Hester Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0128
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 December 1999; original mess hall pass, 1945; copies of various military papers, 1943-1945; United States Marine Corps song booklet, circa 1940s; photograph of Hester and husband in uniform; Textile Box 1: forest green service hat, forest green jacket, herringbone garrison cap, spruce green garrison cap, green cloth bag cover, and buffalo hide purse.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Anne Elisabeth Heyer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0320
Scope and Contents The collection includes various correspondence, military material, photographs, military insignia, and other artifacts document Anne Elisabeth "Betty" Heyer's service in the WAAC and WAC between 1942 and 1945. Lengthy letters to family members describe her training in the United States and her subsequent service in the Pacific Theater as a photography repair technician. Overseas letters document her observation of New Guinea and the Philippines. Printed military material reflects Heyer's...
Dates: 1942-1946 and undated

Elizabeth C. Hickcox Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0067
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 April 1999; various photographs of Hickcox’s Navy WAVES service, circa 1944; various postcards with pictures of U.S. Naval Training School buildings, undated.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Jean Wrenn Higgins Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0025
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 January 1999.

Dates: 1999 January 26

Lucile Hill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0401
Content Description

Photographs and letter. This collection has not been digitized.

Dates: 1942-1945

Nancy Riddle Hinchliffe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0064
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 1999; various military papers from Hinchliffe's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; copies of "The Flyer: Publication Dedicated to the Service of Selfridge Field Personnel," publication, 13 May-5 August 1943; various personal papers, 1944-1945; various photographs of Hinchliffe during her service, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Frances M. Hobbins Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0054
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 March 1999; various photographs of Hobbins WAVES service and with Dorion Tam, a man she "Freed to Fight" in Hawaii, 1945-1997.

Dates: circa 1945 - 1999

Margery Holben Moore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0656
Scope and Contents

This collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, digital interview, logbooks, military papers, and uniform (1 jacket, 2 skirts, and 1 beret).

Dates: 2000-2001

Ava Caudle Honeycutt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0438
Content Description

Ava Honeycutt of Anson County, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during WWII.

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 November 2008; Hand-colored portrait photograph of Ava Caudle Honeycutt,circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1940s - 2008 November 22

Dorothy Hoover Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0170
Content Description This collection includes 5 June 2000 oral history transcript; Newspaper articles circa 1940's and 1977; copy of Basic Training Squadron 2 Flights A and B Class 1944; official national aeronautic associaton publication- airplane specs, 1949; original WASP songbook; original fundamentals of air fighting booklet; photographs of Dorothy posing in and on airplanes in her WASP uniform circa 1943; Federal Aviation Regulations booklets, 1963; Basic Flying Manual, undated; Flight Instructors Manual,...
Dates: 1940-1976

Mary Laura Horner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0477
Abstract

Mary Laura Horner served in the U.S. Navy WAVES during World War II. Horner attended boot camp at the U.S. Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York. The collection includes her recruitment papers and documents of religious services held at the Training School.

Dates: 1943 July 29 to 1943 August 1

Evelyn E. Horton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0381
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, military papers, photographs, and writings by Evelyn Horton. Most of the correspondence is written by Evelyn to her parents back home in Massachusetts. However, there are a few letters from WAC friends and one letter from her brother. The photographs include pictures from before Evelyn joined the WAC; photographs of her in uniform at Camp Pickett, Virginia; Evelyn costumed as "Miss Liberty" for the U.S. Army musical revue Sandsations of 1944; other...
Dates: 1925-1948

Marthalou Hunter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0105
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Portia Hunter Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0268
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944-1945

Grace Illman Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0338
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 January 2006.

Dates: 2006 January 17

Henrietta Stevenson Ingram Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0030
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of Ingram while stationed at Douglas Army Air Force Base, AZ, March 1944; an oral history transcript, 3 February 1999.

Dates: 1944-1999

Paula Silverman Isenberg Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0507
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 February 2011.

Dates: 2011 February 2

Marjorie L. Jackson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0342
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1945

Wilma Leona Jackson Uniform Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0358
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1954 - 1958

Patsy James Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0394
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944 June

Arlene Chalifoux Jeffers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0124
Content Description

Textile Box contains MP Armband; Daisy Mae Hat; Chamois Scarf; Overseas Cap, 1942-1946.

Dates: 1942-1946

Vera Rackley Jenkins Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0076
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 May 1999.

Dates: 1999 May 14

Leona "Evelyn" Jensen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0368
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1945; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/2006

Carol Lorraine Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0261
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1943-1951

Marjory Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0111
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 October oral history and photographs, 1945-1946.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Elna Allran Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0023
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 January 1999; various photographs of Jones will serving with the Cadet and Army Nurse Corps, 1944-1947; various Navy publications, 1944-1945; 2 copies of Jones poetry, 1945-1947; various ephemera from locations Jones was stationed, 1945-1946; various holiday menus from military camps, 1945-1947; Cadet Nurse Patch With Caduceus Pin; Cadet Nurse Patch; Caduceus Pin; photograph album, 1945-1947 containing photographs from: Camp Rucker,...
Dates: circa 1944-1999

Hazel Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0244
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 30 January 2002; various photographs of Jones during her Army Nurse Corps service, circa 1943-1950.

Dates: circa 1942-1965

Olene Brumbles Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0190
Content Description

The collection includes a copy of Navy discharge papers, 1945; photographs of Olene in casual clothes and uniform, circa 1943-45.

Dates: 1943-1945

Dorothy H. Jordan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0073
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Ellen Jordan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0130
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Florence Bevins and Phyllis Jung Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0671
Content Description The collection includes 15 letters addressed to Shirlie Montgomery from her friends, Bevins and Jung, who both served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II, 24 March 1943-26 April 1945. Jung's letters discuss her work and social life with the 151st WAAC Tech Company and later with WAC recruitment in Washington, D.C. Bevins letters begin with her completion of basic training at Daytona Beach, then describing WAC life, K.P. duty, being nicknamed the "Queen of the Latrine" at Camp...
Dates: 1943 March-1945 April

Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0142
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1944-2000

Catherine G. Katopes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0122
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1941-1945

Anita May Gahn Keller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0140
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1943; 2000 January 11

Marian "Mac" McBurney Kilgore Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0387
Content Description

This photograph album entitled "Navy Days at Anacostia" contains photographs documenting Kilgore's service in the WAVES.

Dates: circa 1943-1946

Katie S. King Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0334
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944-2005

Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0213
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 May 2001; Artifact Box contains: 1 ID Bracelet, lapel pin, collar devices, devices, brass buttons,sleeve stripe braid, V-Mail, 1944; portrait photograph of Erma in Navy WAVES uniform, 1944; various photographs of Erma during service, 1943-1946; Midshipman school yearbook, 1943-44; Naval Reserve ID Card; Official Service Certificates, 1943-1946; Navy Benefits information; Havelock WAVES Newsletter, 1943; New Testament pocket bible; WAVES...
Dates: 1943-2001

Muriel Coykendall Kiser Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0078
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Jenice M. Klee Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0279

Audrey Brewington Knight Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0448
Content Description

The collection includes a 5 February 2009 oral history transcript and copies of photographs.

Dates: circa 1944,2009