World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
Found in 258 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various military papers from Edwards Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various photographs of Edwards Army Special Services work, 1943-1945.
Mary Williams Elder Collection
The collection includes various correspondence among Women’s Army Corps veterans for stories to create a book, June 1992; brief biography on Elder’s military service, undated; various newspaper publications, including newsletters for Women's Army Corps, 1992-1998; an oral history transcript, 2 February 1999; various photographs of Elder, 1942-1994; postcards from the Norwich Central Public Library, circa 1960s.
Helen Bonner Eshelman Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 February 1999; an I.D. card for Adjutant General's Office, June 1943; various military records, restricted, various certificates from Eshelman's service as 2nd Lieutenant and Dietician, December 1942-January 1946; a Women's Memorial card, February 1999; various newspaper clippings about Eshelman's military service, undated; WVPH General Oversized box 2 contains battle map of the Pacific, 1941-1945.
Isabella Peterson Evans Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 June 2000; a photograph of Evans Women's Army Corps service, 1945.
Andree Fifield Collection
The collection includes various military papers from Fifield’s WAVES service, 1943-1945; various photographs of her service and wedding, 1944-1945; an oral history transcript, 26 April 1999.
Carolyn Newby Finger Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 March 1999; various photographs of Finger's Navy WAVES service, 1942-1944; a book, USS Tulagi (GVE-72), 1943-1946; cartoon print; various WAVES song sheets, undated; a company newsletter from Vick's Chemical Company, Vol. VI, No. 1, 1 July 1943; a cap device; 10 military patches; a plain gold ensign collar device; cap device on blue wool; a small plastic box containing label for Edward Legum Furniture Co.; a Navy wool cap.
Marion Fisher Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 May 1999; various photographs of Fisher during her Army Medical Specialist Corps service, 1942-1944.
Mary Cooper Floyd Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 March 1999; newspaper article from the "610 Project: The Special Devices Association," circa 1946.
Josephine Martin Flynn Collection
Theo Roberts Fore Creadick Collection
The collection includes various military papers, 1944-1950; 1 photograph of Creadick in uniform, undated; a book showing activities at "The Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School (WR), Northampton, Mass. and The Naval Training School (Communications-W), South Hadley, Mass," undated.
Janet Froome Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 November 1999; various correspondence, 1942-1944; various diary entries, 1942-1945; various military papers, 1941-1983; Memories of World War II, Froome interview with George L. McDermott; various photographs of Froome's Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1945.
Ruth Lillian Gaddy Oral History
Ruth Gaddy (1918-2014) of Charlotte, North Carolina, served in the United States WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) and WAC (Women's Army Corps) during WWII. She was part of the all African-American 6888th Central Postal Battalion.
The collection includes a 2001 May oral history transcript.
Marjorie Wolff German Collection
This collection includes a March 2009 oral history transcript; Compact disc with German's scanned World War II era photographs.
Laura Avis Gibson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 August 2005; various photographs of Gibson during and after her Coast Guard service, circa 1944-1945, 2005.
Katherine Faye Giles Collection
Ellen Harris Huckabee Gobbell Collection
The collection includes various military papers from Gobbell's WAVES service, 1942-1949; a photograph of Gobbell in uniform, circa 1947; various newspaper clippings, including her obituary, 1995 and undated.
Margaret Greene Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 1999; poem written by Walter Mathau, dedicated to Red Cross workers; various photographs of Greene's Red Cross service, 1943-1944.
Nina M. Greenlee Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, February 1999; 9 military pins; various military papers, 1948-1958; various personal papers, 1954-1980; photographs of Greenlee in England; miscellaneous correspondence.
Sarah B. Greenlee Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 February 2000; portrait photograph of Greenlee in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1944; copy of newspaper clipping, 1944.
Ruth M. Gregg Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Gregg's during her Army Nurse Corps service, circa 1943-1945; various correspondence with a Dr. Rossi, circa 1943-1944; various papers, including her engagement announcement, circa 1946; Oversize box 2: The Stars and Stripes magazine, 7 June 1944.
Dorothy Farrington Gribble Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 1999; various photographs of Gribble's service with the Women's Army Corps and Auxiliary Corps, April 1943-December 1944; newspaper article from Kenersville News, 11 November 1995.
Vera Keen Griffin Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 January 2002; various copies of correspondence, 16 May 1943 and 28 May 1943; 2 photograph copies of Griffin marching with her regiment, undated; a photograph of Griffin with friends and family on her wedding day, undated; a photograph copy of Griffin's mother marching in Ewell Veterans parade, circa 1967-1968.
Margaret Griffin Papers
This collection includes the 1949 United States Navy publication United States Submarine Losses; the 1947 book While So Serving; a December 1944 copy of The American; a 17 May;1945 Navy Department press release The United States Franklin Comes Home; copies of The Service Book of Scripture and Prayer and A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors; and The New Testament; and a Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ribbon pin.
Dorothy Mae Griffin Rice Collection
The collection includes 1999 October 31 oral history transcript; photograph of Dorothy with Marine Recruiting Office staff in Denver, Colorado,1944; photograph of Dorothy flight clearance staff at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, California,1945 and a Marine Corps Shoulder Bag.
Julia Hill Gunn Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 April 1999; various letters of correspondence, October 1945-October 1947; various photographs of Gunn's Navy WAVES service, circa 1945.
Blanche Holt Gwyn Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 4 February 1999; a photograph of Gwyn in WAVES uniform, 1943; blue cord uniform jacket and matching skirt, circa 1950s; Navy uniform jacket and skirt, circa 1950s; black tie; a hat.
Blanche Woolard Haggard Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 February 1999; various photographs of Haggard's service with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), 1943-1944; various military publications, including materials on the ship USS Tulagi, 1942-1943; various textiles; 10 patches and 2 cap devices.
Frances Hunt Hall Collection
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.