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United States. Navy -- History -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:

Frances Hunt Hall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0071
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 April 1999; various photographs of Hall's WAVES service, undated; a newspaper clipping featuring Hall's overseas service, April 1946.

Dates: circa 1946-1999

Nellie May Hammond Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0223
Content Description

The collection includes a "My Life in the Service" Diary.

Dates: 1943 March 29-June 5

Myrtle Otto Hanke Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0147
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 February 2000; various correspondence, 1941-1945; various newspaper clippings, 1942-1946; photographs and 16 artist color renderings of Coolangatta, Queensland/Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.

Dates: circa 1941-2000

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

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

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

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

Paula J. Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0220
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1952-1953

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

Shelley Whitzke Kirk Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0604
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2016 February 7

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

Winifred Taylor Kuehn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0127
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Gayle Offenbacher Lewis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0443
Abstract

Gail Offenbacher Lewis (b. 1947), of Jacksonville, Oregon, served as an officer in the the United States Navy Nurse Corps and Navy Reserve from 1966 to 1994. Her service spanned the periods of The Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.

The collection includes a 2008 December 22 oral history transcript and a CD with digitized photographs of Lewis during service with the Navy from 1968 to 1991.

Dates: circa 1968 to 1991

Shirley Ann Thacker Lewis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0405
Content Description

Shirley Ann Thacker Lewis (b. 1938) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1961 to 1965.

This collection includes 29 February 2008 oral history transcript; Official Navy paperwork.

Dates: 1963-2008

Rebecca Ann Lloyd Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0346
Content Description

April 2006 oral history transcript; Buttons; Cap devices (2); Dog tags; Japanese pin and spoon; Nametags; National Defense medal and ribbon; Pin-on ranks: first lieutenant; major; lieutenant colonel; Plaques (oversize Box 3);Wooden box with United States Navy seal and dates of service engraved; and 1650 slides of Japan, Taipei, Thailand, and the Philippines; taken 1963-1964.

Dates: 1963-1964, 2006

Henrietta Clodfelter Lucke Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0085
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 May 1999; a New York Times article titled, "New Army Nurses Depart for Camp"; various photographs of Lucke during and after serving with the Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines and Tokyo, 1945-1946.

Dates: 1944-1999

Nell Smith Lutz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0160
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 March 2003; various photographs of Lutz's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency (WAVES) Navy, 1943-1945; personal correspondence during her WAVES service, 1943-1944, along with Navy papers and newspaper clippings, 1943-2003; DVD video interview by Bob Gaines "The Vanishing Generation."

Dates: circa 1943-2003

Joycestane Brant Malcolm Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0126
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; a photograph of Malcolm in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) uniform, circa 1954.

Dates: circa 1954-1999

Rose Elaine Male Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0231
Content Description

The collection includes 2 folders of correspondence from Rose Male to her family in Schenectady, New York, December 1944-February 1946.

Dates: 1944 December-1946 February

Ruth Mildred Marshburn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0227
Content Description

The collection includes a scrapbook, 1944-1946, 1958; Insignia Patches, circa 1944-1946; WAVES 25th National Convention Charm, 1967.

Dates: 1944-1967

Nicolette Petrone Martinez Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0251
Content Description

The collection includes a 6 March 2002 oral history transcript; an official photograph of Martinez in Navy summer white uniform, circa 1992; a photograph of Martinez posing outside a building, circa 1992; photograph of her posing with Marine Corporal, circa 1994; personal correspondence to mother, circa 1992; a copy of Navy leave and earnings statements, 1992; a Certificate for Crossing Equator located in WVPH Oversize Box 2, circa 1992.

Dates: 1992-2002

Virginia Gilbert Mattson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0014
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 January 1999; 2 Navy WAVES publications, 1946; a photograph of Mattson in uniform, circa 1941-1945; a victory medal; an American Campaign medal.

Dates: circa 1941-1999

Janet Muriel Mead Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0389
Scope and Contents

The collection contains letters written by Mead to her parents throughout her military career, as well as during the mid-1950s. Photographs in the collection include images of Meade, her friends in the WAVES and U.S. Navy, and Naval Air Station Seattle.

Dates: 1940-1955

Martha Redding Mendenhall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0087
Content Description

The collection includes an Air Navigation student workbook, December 1945; a training syllabus for Air Navigation course, December 1945; various photographs during and after Mendenhall's WAVES service, 1943-1991; a Flying Trainer handbook, May 1943; various procedure papers, undated; an oral history transcript, including audio cassette tape, 28 May 1999.

Dates: 1943-1999

Mary Ellen Mullan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0259
Scope and Contents

The collection includes two letter booklets written by Mullan while in basic training at Northampton, Massachusetts in September 1944.

Dates: 1944 September

Nan M. Nabors Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0294
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944-1946

Judith Bullock Nisbet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0056
Scope and Contents Judith Bullock Nisbet was born in Red Springs, North Carolina, and served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Emergency Services-Navy) from 1942 to 1943. An oral history interview, memoir, photographs and textiles primarily document Nisbet's service during World War II. The oral history interview provides information about Nisbet's childhood in Red Springs, N.C., during the Depression, her education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, and her service as a WAVE. Prominent...
Dates: 1942-1999

Eleanor Neeva Northcott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0063
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 April 1999; a poster with the phrase "Ah...At Last!", circa 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Ruth Kent Petker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0125
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Petker in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES) uniform, circa 1943.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Lillian M. Pimlott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0219
Abstract Lillian Mary Pimlott, a Trenton, New Jersey native, joined the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in March 1943 as an ensign and retired years later as a lieutenant commander in the navy.Correspondence, military papers, photographs, and printed material primarily document Lillian Pimlott's 1943-1946 service in the WAVES and her continued military service in the naval reserves. Letters to family and friends describe Pimlott's 1937 travels to England,...
Dates: 1937-1968

Eleanor Rigney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0101
Content Description

The collection includes The Havelock newsletters, photographs, military papers, biographical materials, Identification Tag, 1943; Good Conduct Medal,1946; Patches,1943-1946; Ribbons, 1943-1946; "Ruptured Duck" Discharge Pin, 1946.

Dates: circa 1943-1951

Irja Miriam Ripatte Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0351
Content Description

Scrapbook with Waves service photographs; newspaper clippings , circa 1942-1943; Headshot of Irja Miriam Ripatte wearing a WAVES service dress blue uniform and soft brimmed enlisted cap, not dated.

Dates: circa 1942-1943

Patricia Ann Roney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0700
Abstract

Patricia Ann Roney (1923-1994?), of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) from 1944-1946. Included in this collection are Roney's scrapbook and diary.

Dates: 1937-1945

Eunice M. Rountree Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0012
Content Description

The collection includes 2 photographs, circa 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1942 - 1945

Viola Brown Sanders Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0323
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 June 2005; various photographs of Viola during her service with the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), 1943-1966; various newspaper clippings featuring Viola or military related articles, 1971, 1999-2005; letters written to Viola that honor her work and career.

Dates: 1943-2005

Charlotte Lavone Schuck Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0203
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1942-1947

Eleanor Elizabeth House Selzo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0267
Content Description

This collection includes Correspondence, 1943-1945 and undated ; Military papers, 1944-1946; Back to Civvies booklet, circa 1945; Women's Reserve Information Separation Pamphlet, 1945; United States Naval Training School, Milledgeville, GA, circa 1943-1945.

Dates: 1943-1947

Blanche Sheaffer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0285
Content Description

This collection includes Correspondence, 1943-1945; Military papers, 1946; Miscellaneous Printed Materials; Newspaper Clippings,1945; photograph; Matchbooks; Red Cross Patch; VFW Pin.

Dates: 1943-1946

Agnes C. M. Sliter Rodgers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0097
Content Description

The collection includes Naval Discharge and Enrollment papers, 24 September 1918-31 December 1920; 2 photographs of Rodger's United States Naval Reserve Yeomanette, 1918-1919.

Dates: circa 1918 to 1920

Linnea Sommer-Weddington Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0673
Content Description

This collection includes February 2020 oral history transcript, photograph album, retirement program.

Dates: 2012, 2019, 2020

Grace Swank Alexander Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0018
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 January 1999.

Dates: 1999 January 20