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Linda Bray of Butner, North Carolina, served in the United States Army from 1982 to 1991, and during the Panama Invasion, she was the first female to lead troops into combat. This collection contains a uniform, boots, correspondence, various documents, magazine and newspaper clippings, and medals.

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Memoir,"Mattie Rubenstein Brenner: Her World War II Story"; "Haledon Woman on Wounded List;" Newark Evening News, 18 December 1944; "Lt. Rubenstein; Wounded by V-Bomb; Home on Hospital Ship;" n.d.; "Lt. Matilda Rubenstein First Woman Casualty From Area;" circa November 1944; photocopies of photographs, circa 1942-1944.

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Heather Johnson Brott (b. 1967), of Enumclaw, Washington, served in the United States Navy from 1986-1987, the United States Navy Reserve from 1987-1992 and the United States Army 1996-2008.

This collection includes August 2010 oral history transcript; scanned photographs.

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Mary F. Cannon (1921-2012) of Chicago, Illinois, was stationed in Korea while a member of the Army Nurse Corps from 1951 to 1953 and in Vietnam during her service with the Navy Nurse Corps from 1958 to 1974.

This collection includes April 2008 oral history interview transcript available for use onsite in the archives, copies of photographs.

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This collection includes Sepetember 2016 oral history interview, 2010 "Afghanistan Culture Card" and 2007 "Afghanistan Visual Language Surival Guide" issued to U.S. troops, uncorrected proof of the Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's 2015 book Ashley's War.

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This collection includes 22 June 2014 oral history transcript; photographs.

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This collection includes November 2014 oral history transcript; a copy of a circa 1978-1979 Women's Symposium Package Report, and CD-R of 2006 Dec Women in The Army Interview.

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The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 May 1999.

Content Description Carol A. Johnson (1944-2022), of Columbus, Ohio, served in the United States Women's Army Corps from 1964 till 1968. She served in the office of the secretary of the army during the Vietnamese Tet Offensive. This collection includes 1 May 2008 oral history transcript; program and paperwork for the Star Spangled Pageant, a touring exhibit presenting the history of women's association with the United States Army, circa 1967; copy of the Army Commendation Medal with letter, circa...

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This collection includes November 2015 oral history transcript; photographs; correspondence.

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The collection includes a 22 April 2015 oral history transcript; a photograph of Kramer in uniform; 2 typed poems; military papers discussing a hospital remodel at Fort Riley and a copy of Vietnam's United States barracks; various newspaper clippings and full length issues, 1979.

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This collection includes December 2014 oral history transcript and photographs.

Scope and Contents Letters from Magnusson to a friend at home in Duluth, Minnesota, chiefly document Magnusson's service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in Iowa, Virginia, and France. Letters from Fort Des Moines describe WAC uniforms; drills, including a gas mask drill; WAC facilities and buildings; and social activities at the fort and in Des Moines. Letters from Newport News detail Magnusson's perspective on the South and southerners; the reaction of male soldiers and civilians to the WACs; entertainment,...

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The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 May 1999. Interview completed with Vera Rackley Jenkins oral history.

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This collection includes December 2015 oral history transcript; copies of photographs; and Vietnamese safe conduct pass.

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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.

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The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 January 2012; a Coast Guard pin.

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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.

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Maria Felger Wayne (b. 1964), of Van Wert, Ohio, served in the United States Army as a transportation officer from 1985 until 1993.

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 October 2010; various scanned photographs.

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This collection includes May 2018 oral history transcript, copies of two scrapbooks; copies of audio diaries.