World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
Found in 415 Collections and/or Records:
Lucy Phillips Pugh Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 May 1999; various photographs of Pugh’s Coast Guard SPARS service and at SPAR’s reunions, 1944-1990; 2 postcards of SPAR Training Center, Palm Beach, undated; an article from the Reservist magazine, November 1997; "The Coast Guard & The Women's Reserve in World War II," booklet, 1992.
Carrie Radnik Collection
Carrie Radnik of Montrose, Alabama, served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.
Collection includes oral history interview and photographs from Radnik's service with the Army Nurse Corps in Louisiana and in Australia and New Guinea in the early 1940s.
Elizabeth Ann Ray Collection
Elizabeth "Betty" Ann Ray of Winnsboro, Texas, served as an officer in the United States Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), Women's Army Corps (WAC), and Women in the Air Force (WAF). Ray served as both deputy director and director of WAF. Her service career lasted from 1942 till 1964.
The collection includes 11 June 2008 oral history transcript; Military service resume; sheet of Women in the Armed Services stamps; photographs from service 1944-1973.
Virginia Russell Reavis Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 September 2000; various military paperwork, 1944-1945; various photographs of Reavis during her Army Air Force service, 1943; an article published from the Tideland News, Swansboro, NC, 2000; an Army Air Evacuation Nurse Wings metal uniform pin located in Artifact box.
Dolores Reed Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 May 2007.
Margaret "Peggy" Reeve Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 January 1999; a Women's Army Corps training booklet, 1943; 5 photographs of Reeve while serving with the WAC, April 1944.
Jean Holdridge Reeves Oral History
The collection includes a 2007 February 14 oral history transcript.
Madge Owens Reynolds Collection
The collection includes a reproduction of a photograph and a 1943 navy blue wool navy nurse cape.
Myrtle A. Rhoden Collection
Myrtle Rhoden (1921-2005) of New York City, served in the United States Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corp (WAC) from 1941 to 1945. She was part of the all African-American 6888th Central Postal Battalion.
The collection includes a 2000 June oral history; photocopies of discharge paperwork and certificate, 1945; Buffalo Solider banquet program, 2000; photocopy of Rhoden in her Women's Army Corps uniform, circa 1940s.
Sammie M. Rice Collection
The collection includes various correspondence, 1942-1947; various photographs of Rice during her Army Nurse Corps service, circa 1942-1945; various clippings, including topics about her service and when in college, circa 1942-1950.
Geraldine Smith Richardson Collection
This collection includes a Major Geraldine Smith Richardson's journal spanning from 1942-1946, two military identification cards, an Ancient Order of the Deep membership card, three military medals, and an assortment of military insignia.
Eleanor Rigney Collection
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.
Irja Miriam Ripatte Scrapbook
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.
Marguerite B. Robinson Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 January 2007.
Mary McLeod Rogers Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 December 1999; a booklet published for the Women Marines Association, circa 1992; various photographs of Rogers during her service with the Marines and after retirement, 1944-1999.
Patricia Ann Roney Collection
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.
Buren Rose Oral History
Buren Rose (1919-2018) of Jefferson City, Missouri, served in the United States civil service at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center (now Lackland Air Force Base) where she was the driver for Colonel Morris Taber from 1942 to 1943.
The collection includes a 2008 November 5 oral history transcript.
Eunice M. Rountree Photographs
The collection includes 2 photographs, circa 1942-1945.
Louise E. Roy Scrapbook
Louise E. Roy’s scrapbooks document her time with the American Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) from 1942-1945. The photographs depict images from Hawaii, Guam, and San Francisco showing landscapes, wildlife, colleagues, and military vehicles. Also included are maps, postcards, and news articles.
Jeanne Grushinski Rubin Collection
Lola H. Ryan Letters
The collection contains approximately 120 letters and v-mail written by Lola Ryan to her parents and brother. Ryan discusses her experiences of being a nurse in basic training, the conditions in wartime France, German prisoners of war, her experiences as a wartime nurse, and her longing to return home and be discharged from the army.
Mary Amanda Sabourin Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 1999; a green and white pinstriped summer uniform, including dress, jacket, white gloves, and garrison cap for Marine Corps Women's Reserve, 1952.
Joan Margaret Salvesen Collection
Eveline Y. Santy Collection
Eveline Y. Santy (1919-2008) served in the United States Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1945.
The collection includes a service diary, military ID button, a military publication, and training manual.
Norma Schrader Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 February 2007; a scrapbook documenting Schrader's time with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), undated; various certificates, 2013-2020; garrison cap with insignia; a photograph of Schrader, undated; a copy of a newspaper article titled, "The Role of the Chief Petty Officer in the Modern Navy," Naval Institute Proceedings, April 1957; garrison cap;award; photograph; chief warrant officer charge book.
Walta Mae Schreiber Collection
The collection includes a Navy Nurse Corps officer's service hat, blue uniform, cape, and garrison cap, circa 1944; photocopied certificate of the Navy Service dated 1947; WW2 Ribbon.
Mildred Curtis Scott Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Scott's Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various military papers, June-December 1945.
Ellen L. Scott Letters
Collection consists of seven letters written to her parents in Johnson City, Tennessee. In the letters, Scott discusses military life at the various bases at which she was assigned as well as her job responsibilities. The last letter indicates that she had left the WAC and was living in Gadsden, Alabama with her husband Bill who was serving in the Army Air Force.
Scrapbook, 1943-1945
Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 September 2005; undated speech written by Elsie about her life story including living in Stockton, California and moving to China in 1931, joining the Chinese Red Cross during WWII, and subsequent events until 1946 when she left her family in China and moved back to the United States; photographs of Elsie during her service the Chinese Medical Relief Corps, circa 1939-1946.
Virginia Seipp Scrapbook
This scrapbook contains mementoes and letters from Seipp's high school years through the completion of her training at the Hospital for Women of Maryland; including Cadet Nurse Corps brochures and handbooks.
Eleanor Elizabeth House Selzo Collection
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.
Nancy Featherhoff Sendelbach Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 May 2000; photographs of Sendelbach during her Women Air Force Service pilots service, 1943-1944; various clippings and Air Force papers, 1943-1995.
Fern Lucille Shaferly Collection
This collection includes Correspondence, 1944-1945, 1986; Diary, 1943-1946; Newspaper clippings; Miscellaneous printed material, 1943-1946; Army Air Corps Patch; National Defense Service Card, 1943.
Elizabeth Shamburger Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 March 1999.
Norma Petree Shaver Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 May 2001; photographs of Norma in Manila, Philippines, 1945. Newspaper clippings, 1943; WAC certificate, 1943.
Ruth Shaver Collection
Blanche Sheaffer Collection
This collection includes Correspondence, 1943-1945; Military papers, 1946; Miscellaneous Printed Materials; Newspaper Clippings,1945; photograph; Matchbooks; Red Cross Patch; VFW Pin.
Davetter Shepard Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 December 2000; portrait photograph of Shepard in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943.
Ruby Morgan Sheridan Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 May 1999; various photographs of Sheridan’s Army Special Services civilian employee, 1943-1946.
Helen Shoobridge Oral History
Helen Shoobridge served in the United States' Women's Army Corps [WAC] during World War Two in the United States, New Guinea, and the Philippines.
The collection includes a 2004 December oral history transcript.
Elizabeth Simpson Collection
Papers; postcards; photographs; and artifacts.
Lucy Smith Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 May 1999; a photograph of Smith in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943-1945.
Margaret Chamberlin Smith Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 June 2006; various photographs of Smith's Women AirForce Service Pilots (WASP) service, circa 1944.
Margaret Marian Smith Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 February 1999; a spruce green uniform with white seersucker shirt, along with jacket and skirt; a spruce green bell crown hat with USMC device; a photograph of Smith in uniform, circa 1945-1946.
Sheila K. Smith Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 January 2005; various photographs of Smith during her British Women's Royal Air Force (RAF) and as a model, circa 1943, undated.
Shirley Ruth Smith Collection
Phyllis Hinton Snyder Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 February 2000; various photographs 1943-1944.