United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- History
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Dorothy B. Austell Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 September 2000; a photograph of Austell in uniform, 1943.
Elizabeth Rutledge Bacon Collection
The collection includes a WAC plaque, 1954; photographs of Bacon’s service with the Women's Army Corps; various military papers, 1948-1962; various newspaper clippings, 1942-1952, 1978.
Mildred Caroon Bailey Collection
The collection includes photographs of Bailey in her Women’s Army Corps uniform, 1959-1971; various newspaper clippings, 1958-2000; various personal papers, including a copy of Bailey’s biography, October 1971; publication titled “Conversations between Brigadier General Mildred C. Bailey and Lieutenant Colonel Rhoda M. Messer,” September 1978; an oral history transcript, 26 May 1999.
Betty U. Baker Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 February 1999; photographs of Baker's Army Air Force service and after, 1944-1999.
June Neely Baker Collection
Kathleen Bayne Collection
The collection includes Bayne's Women's Army Corps hat, 2 Women's Army Corps issued purses, olive drab enlisted winter uniform, a brown blouse, skirt and jacket with 4 gold buttons embossed with United States Great Seal, and 1 Women's Army Corps olive drab enlisted garrison cap with gold and green piping.
Martha Magruder Boger Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 February 1999; a photograph of Boger with brief description, 11 May 1955.
Margaret L. Bohler Letter
The V-mail letter is dated 18 April; 1943. Bohler was working to establish a hospital in India and in the letter she describes her living conditions there.
Ruth M. Bonin Collection
Newspaper articles from Ruth's service in the WAC and WAC bowling league 1944; military discharge papers 1946; photographs of Ruth with family and during her service 1943-45; personal diary 1942-43; Artifact Box 1 contains WAC Ribbon WWII; Collar Insignia (6) Bronze ; WAC Collar devices Pallas Athene (2).
Florence Beatrice O'Brien Broomfield Photographs
The collection includes various photographs of members of WAC, Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS); the women's branch of the British army, and French army women march in a parade down the Champs-Elysées celebrating the third anniversary of women in the army in the United States in May 1945.
Kathryn B. Cerwinski Photograph Album
Mary Markarian Charpentier Collection
The collection contains photographs; honorable discharge papers; correspondence from Charpentier to her children in Nashua, New Hampshire; and copies of correspondence and photographs.
Ruth Coster Collection
The collection includes a 2000 February 4 oral history transcript; a handwritten military highlights timeline; a copy of an official Honorable Discharge paperwork; newspaper clippings, 1944 to 1946 and 1994; copies of photographs during Coster's service, 1944 to 1945; and copy of Coster's time at Women in Military Service for America Memorial (WIMSA), 1997.
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.
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis Collection
This is a fully digitized collection that includes February 2021 oral history transcript and scans of photographs.
Edna L. Snow Morris Dillman Letters
This collections has 65 letters that begin in June 1943-September 1944.
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.
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.
Theressa Jeanne Fillmore Collection
Audrey Ann Fisher Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Fisher's time in the Army, 1973-1974; a copy of a Times Herald article, 1974; handwritten speech for Veterans Day Remembrance Ceremony, November 2013.
WAC Veterans Association Florida Sunshine Chapter #79 Records
This collection includes brochures; newsletters; rosters; newspaper clippings; correspondence; notes; lists and meeting records 1988-1993; scrapbooks 1987, 1988, and 1989 and photographs 1987,1992-94.
Reva Ingram Fortune Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 February 1999; various photographs of Fotrune’s Women’s Army Corps service as an Army Air Force Service Pilot, 1943-1947; various copies of letters, 1943; various newspaper articles from UNCG Campus Weekly and Greensboro News & Record, 1991-1997; a “Sky High Experience” article located in Oversized Box 1, 1997.
Thelma Foster Oral History
Thelma Houpe Foster (1917-2010) served in the United States Women's Army Corps during World War II.
The collection includes a 2009 January 16 oral history transcript.
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.
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.
Annie R. Gwynn Collection
Annie R. Gwynn (1901-1993) served in the U.S. Women's Army Corps during World War II and the Korean War. Included in the collection are army manuals, textiles, and immunization records.
Margaret E. Hasell Collection
The collection includes various Greeting cards, letters, and telegrams addressed to Hassell from various family members, 1944-1945.
Bernice Isabel Heath Collection
Anna Louis Henderson Collection
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.
Lucile Hill Collection
Photographs and letter. This collection has not been digitized.
Marthalou Hunter Collection
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.
Henrietta Stevenson Ingram Collection
The collection includes photographs of Ingram while stationed at Douglas Army Air Force Base, AZ, March 1944; an oral history transcript, 3 February 1999.
Madge P. Selstead Inman and Marvin R. Inman Correspondence
Paula Silverman Isenberg Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 February 2011.
Arlene Chalifoux Jeffers Collection
Textile Box contains MP Armband; Daisy Mae Hat; Chamois Scarf; Overseas Cap, 1942-1946.
Carol Alban Johnson Collection
Juanita J Johnson Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 January 2002; a copy of Johnson's Report of Separation from the Armed Forces of the United States, 31 August 1954.
Dorothy H. Jordan Collection
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.
Ellen Jordan Collection
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.
Florence Bevins and Phyllis Jung Collection
Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection
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.
Catherine G. Katopes Collection
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.
Mary Kulik Collection
Mary Rita Kulik (1918-2008), of Philadelphia, Pennsyvania, served as a flights instructor for the United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1946.
Included in this collection are a few service medals from Kulik, along with a pair of Sterling earrings, field photo album, documents, selective service papers, certificates, unused WAC V Post Cards, "Life in the Service" booklet that is partially filled out by Kulik, and a WAC newsletter.
Edith Kimsey League Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 April 1999; a photograph of League in U.S. Army uniform, circa 1945.
Sylvia Lynch Letters
This collection includes four letters written by Lynch from Manila, Philippines in August and September, 1945. Lynch discusses conditions in Manila, V-J day, and predictions on when she will be discharged from the WAC.
Betty Magnusson Collection
Norma Martell Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 30 April 1999.