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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 414 Collections and/or Records:

Glennette Page Staloch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0305
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript with accompanying video tape of interview, undated.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Ellen Brown Steel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0154
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Steel's Women's Army Corps (WAC) service and retirement, 1950-1969; textiles include a uniform jacket without the brass, uniform skirt and uniform jacket, 1949-1969.

Dates: circa 1949-1969

Ruth M. Strawn Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0423
Scope and Contents This collection consists of eight personal letters from Strawn to Mrs. and/or Mr. Webster of West Covington, Kentucky, and one letter from Strawn's friend Lauretta to her parents.These letters talk about the active life she enjoyed with Lauretta and their fellow WACs off-duty. She also described the places she, Lauretta, and her parents travelled to, discussed her brief stay in the base hospital whlie undergoing surgery for a hernia, and lastly her excitement that the end of the...
Dates: 1945-1946; Other: Date acquired: 04/14/2008

The Inez Stroud Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0009
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Stroud while serving in the Women's Army Corps, 1943-1969; a copy of 12 pages from a Stroud scrapbook which include newspaper clippings, circa 1940s; various papers from her WAC duties; a WAC Handbook for the Fort Des Moines Training Center, undated; a brief biography of Stroud used at her memorial service, November 1994; 3 loose sheets with song lyrics, undated.

Dates: circa 1943 - 1994

Dorothy R. Collins Sullivan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0187
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2004; various photographs of Sullivan's Women's Army Corps service, circa 1944; 2 Women's Army Corps overseas garrison caps located in textile box.

Dates: 1944-2004

Lillian Sutter Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0350
Content Description

This letter is dated 20 June, 1945. In it Sutter discusses the overseas voyage in which she stopped in Australia and Calcutta, India. She writes about her impressions of Calcutta and her living conditions and the hospital at her posting in Assam, India. Sutter also describes the typhoid ward to which she is assigned, the chaplain at the post, and her reaction to V-E Day.

Dates: 1945 June 20

Mary L. Sutton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0468
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 July 2009; a formal hand-tinted portrait photograph of Sutton in Women's Army Corps olive drab service shirtwaist, circa 1945; a photograph of Sutton standing in uniform at the day room of Fort Des Moines, Iowa; a photograph of Sutton in uniform with her brother, husband, and husband's brother, circa 1945.

Dates: circa 1945, 2009

Adeline Ledesma Teague Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0241
Scope and Contents

The collection includes various photographs of Teague during her Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) work, circa 1945-1946; a Pace publication (copy) from Los Angeles City College, Col. 5, No. 2, October 1942; an oral history transcript, 17 January 2002.

Dates: 1942-2002

Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0197
Content Description

The collection includes miscellaneous photographs; service diary; military papers; flight log; United States Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia Pictorial Review, circa 1943 to 1945; "WAVES of the Navy: A Story of the Women's Reserve Activities at the Naval Air Station by Eunice A. Horne; Certificate of Satisfactory Service ID Card, 1946; Officer's Cap Device; Lieutenant's Collar Bars; Honorable Service "Ruptured Duck" Pin; and Dog Tags, 1942.

Dates: circa 1942-1955

Molly Thavenet Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0429
Scope and Contents The scrapbook contains correspondence, ephemera, photographs, newsletters, official military communications and records, and clippings primarily related to Thavenet's service in the WAAC and WAC, primarily with the Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1945.The correspondence is from Thavenet to her family describing her experiences in the service. There are also letters to Thavenet from family and friends from home and fellow WACs, as well as post-war correspondence up to 1950. Included...
Dates: 1940-1950

Dorothy E. Wain Thompson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0431
Scope and Contents

The Dorothy Wain Thompson collection includes photographs, military and personal papers, humorous writings, military guides, newspaper clippings, ephemera from her posting to England, songbooks, and a 1945 book about the history of the Air Force Unit. Also included are artifacts such as ribbons, medals, devices, pins, and insignia and patches.

Dates: circa 1943-1972; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/2008

Marjorie S. Thompson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0337
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript completed by the Texas Woman's University Library, 4 June 1994; a photograph of Thompson during her WASP service, circa 1944.

Dates: 1944, 1994

Roberta Wooddell House and Nancy Wooddell Thornton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0363
Scope and Contents Folder one contains photographs of Roberta and Nancy as well as a few family photographs. The photographs also include publicity photographs of Roberta as a WAAC at Luke Field, Arizona and Chandler, Arizona.Folder two contains ten letters written by both Roberta and Nancy to their Mother, Aunt May and Grandmother. These letters discuss general news, such as Nancy's reaction to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death, and updates on their lives in the military. There is also...
Dates: 1941-1946; Other: Date acquired: 08/11/2006

Shirley M. Tillson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0302
Scope and Contents Letters, chiefly from Port Blakely, Washington, document Tillson's daily life with the WAVES. Subjects include her dates and social activities, particularly the USO (United Service Organization), a Women's Service Club, dances, and athletics; her family; the status of the war, including the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the German surrender; WAVES uniforms and uniform regulations; and her work as a radio operator. Tillson writes in detail about the opportunities the navy provides and about...
Dates: 1945

Katharine W. Toll Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0293
Abstract

Katharine Wolcott Toll of Amherst, Massachusetts, was a journalist. She served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II.

The Katharine W. Toll Papers span from 1929 to the 1980s and primarily documents Katharine Toll's service in the WAVES during World War II.

Dates: circa 1929-1989 and undated

Frances Stanley Trembath Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0492
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of military and miscellaneous documents from 1942-1946; there are also twenty-one photos of Trembath, her nursing colleagues, hospital buildings, and waterfalls. There is one handwritten, unsigned letter from the Western Marine Railway company, asking for a travel refund.

Dates: 1942-1946; Other: Date acquired: 06/02/2010

Jennie Trueman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0308
Scope and Contents

The collection contains hymn books for the Women's Auxiliary Forces, a journal, a commemorative photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, a hat device, and a medal.

Dates: 1944

Frances Bradsher Turner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0236
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2002; various photographs of Frances' Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1971; a resume documenting rank, awards and service in Army.

Dates: 1951-1973

Mildred Parish Turton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0144
Content Description

The collection includes paperwork for Army Nurse Discharge, 21 August 1952.

Dates: 1952 August 21

Rachel Brower Twiddy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0133
Abstract Rachel Twiddy (1917-2010), of Liberty, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) at Ford Ord, California, from 1942 until the fall of 1943.The collection includes a 13 December 1999 oral history transcript; portrait photograph of Rachel in Army Nurse Corps uniform with garrison cap, 1942; photographs of Rachel with coworkers and patients at Hospital in Fort Ord, California during World War II, 1942-1943; photocopy of Rachel's Army Nurse Corps Identification Card;...
Dates: circa 1942 to 1943

Unknown World War II Navy Nurse Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0667
Abstract

The scrapbook documents a Navy Nurse's time at Pearl Harbor, #10 Naval Hospital beginning in 1944.

Dates: 1944-1945

Unknown WWII U.S. Army Nurse Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0265
Scope and Contents

This diary was written from 1942-1945 by an unknown nurse in the Army Nurse Corps. She served at a hospital in Tehran, Iran.

Dates: 1942-1945

Virginia Young Van Dongen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0015
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 November 1999; various photographs of van Dongen’s SPAR’s service, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1944 - 1945

Dale Augusta Van Vacter Angers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0159
Content Description

The collection includes photograph of Angers in uniform, circa 1940s; handwritten timeline of service.

Dates: circa 1942-1963

Kathryn M. Vannauker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0370
Content Description

This collection includes twenty letters written from Fort Des Moines and Fort Oglethorpe dated September 1942 - March 1944.

Dates: 1942 September 18-1944 March 06

Millie Dunn Veasey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0176
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various photographs of Veasey's Women's Army Corps service, 1944-1945; personal papers, including resume, undated.

Dates: 1944-2000

Unknown Texas and California WAAC Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0679
Content Description

Photograph album of an unidentified WAAC who served during World War II. Album includes photograph of 2nd Company, 3rd Regiment, First WAAC Training Center, Fort Des Moines, Iowa, March 16, 1943. Other photographs are of training in Commerce and El Paso, Texas, as well as Hollywood and Long Beach, California.

Dates: 1943

Winona Franklin Walker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0284
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 July 2003; 3 scrapbooks that contain a number of photographs, postcards, travel brochures, and correspondence. Locations visited by Walker in her scrapbooks include: Bremen, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland.

Dates: 1945-1964, 2003; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1965

Charlotte E. Ward Diary

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0715
Abstract

Charlotte E. Ward (1914-1988), of Delaware, Indiana, served with the United States Army Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and then the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1945.

The collection includes a diary Ward recorded her experiences in the Women's Army Corps and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps from 1943 February to October.

Dates: 1943 February to October

Pearl Myrtle Wasem Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0733
Content Description

Scrapbooks, correspondence, newspapers, and photographs related to Pearl Myrtle Wasem (1920-2004). This collection spans 1941-1957 and includes 12 scrapbooks, hundreds of letters and photographs, a songbook, military papers, and newspapers.

Dates: 1941-1957

Ann K. Watters Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0175
Content Description

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

Dates: 2000 June 16

Arlene Mae Webb Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0678
Abstract

Arlene Mae Webb (1923-2007), of Overland, Missouri, served in the United States Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1945.

This collection contains photograph albums and a chalk drawing of Webb from prominent St. Louis artist, Homer L. Dolahite.

Dates: 1943-1981

Juanita Webster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0167
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 May 2000; a typed autobiography of Webster's service, 25 pages.

Dates: 1942-2000

Florence S. Weil Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0225
Content Description

photographs; Correspondence, 1942-1944; menus and newspaper clippings, 1942-1943.

Dates: 1942-1945

Annis Glendon Weir Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0148
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 February 2000; various photographs and copies of Navy Nurse Corps, 1944-2000.

Dates: 1944-2000

Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0523
Abstract

Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz (1911-2007) of Detroit, Michigan, served as an officer in African American units of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and later the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942-1945.

The collection is made up of nine photographs and one letter from Wertz to her mother.

Dates: 1942-1945; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/2007

Mary Ellen West Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0059
Abstract

Mary Ellen West (b. 1922) of Dover, North Carolina, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1943 to 1946.

The Mary Ellen West Papers primarily date from 1943 to 1948 and contain papers, printed material, photographs, textiles, artifacts, and an oral history interview which document West's military service.

Dates: 1943-1948, 1999; Other: Majority of material found within 1943 - 1948

Edna Andrews Weston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0091
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 June 1999; various photographs of Weston's Navy Nurse Corps service, January 1944-October 1946.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Mary Wheeler Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0228
Content Description

The collection includes 5 photographs and negatives, along with an interview questionnaire.

Dates: 1944 June; 1944 September ; 2001 October

Aileen D. White Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0301
Abstract

Aileen D. White served in the Army Nurse Corps in Italy during World War II.

Thirteen V-Mail letters from Lt. Aileen D. White of the Army Nurse Corps to her sister in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Dated from January 1944 to March 1944, the letters briefly describe living conditions and entertainment in an unknown location in Italy where White was stationed with the 17th General Hospital.

Dates: 1944

Sherley Mae White Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0485
Abstract

Sherley Mae White (1923-2014) served in the Women's Reserve of the Coast Guard (SPARS) from 1943-1945. She served as a drum major for the SPARS marching band at the Biltmore Training Station in Palm Beach, Florida. She later transferred to the Coast Guard Base in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Dates: 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2010

Dorothy Anderson Whiteford Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0714
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 January 2022; various photographs of Whiteford's Navy WAVES service, 1944-1946.

Dates: 1944-1946 and 2022

Nina Johnson Wiglesworth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0132
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December 8 oral history transcript; a personal letter to Wiglesworth from a captain, 1944 October 25; photographs of Wiglesworth at Camp Lejeune and in Washington D.C. in uniform, circa 1943 to 1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Betty Etten Wiker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0428
Content Description This collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 September 2008; photographs of Betty during service as a Women's Army Corps (WAC) 1943-1949; copy of a letter home relaying an exciting bombing mission she was able to take part in. This was to bomb an ice jam on the Chena River to relieve a flooded area in Alaska; copy of a 3 page history of Women's Army Corps from 1942-1945; newpaper clippings circa 1978; 2006 and one undated; American Legion Magazine article on WAC 35th anniversary...
Dates: 1942-1949, 1952, 1977-1978, 2008

Lauretta Webster Wilkin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0307
Scope and Contents Letters to her family in West Covington, Kentucky, and several photographs document Lauretta Webster Wilkin's service in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. Subjects include basic training; WAAC parades; uniforms and equipment; her work in the army's drafting department; the transition from the WAAC to the WAC in 1943; war news; family affairs; and social life and recreation, including her softball team, parties, visits with friends, and her courtship and marriage to George Wilkin....
Dates: 1943-1946

Elizabeth Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0058
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 March 1999; various photographs of Williams Red Cross service and for a Life Magazine publication, 1943-1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Virgilia Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0345
Abstract

Virgilia "Jill" Williams (1914-2003) of Grandview, Iowa, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) as a pharmacist's mate third class at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, and an instructor of pharmacist's mates at the U.S. Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York, during World War II.

The collection contains correspondence, military papers, photographs, postcards, publications, and a scrapbook kept by Williams.

Dates: 1942-1945

Willie Mae Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0202
Content Description

The collection includes a 2001 February oral history transcript; photograph of Williams in off-duty Women's Army Corps (WAC) dress with cap, circa 1944; a typed 4 page paper, "Women in the Military Services in the Past"; newspaper article (copy) of Williams on her 90th birthday, 2002 November 22; and additional items are available at Florida State University collections: https://archives.lib.fsu.edu/repositories/6/resources/494.

Dates: circa 1942-1945