Scope and Contents Papers, photographs, an oral history interview, and artifacts and textiles document Jean M. Bright's Red Cross service in New Guinea, Japan, and the Philippines during World War II. Papers include five postcards from New Guinea; a postcard of the S.S. Lurline, the passenger troop ship that Bright sailed on; a 1945 Christmas card from the Philippines; and a 1944 immunization register. Postcards contain brief messages about an all-African American church in New Guinea and about the cabin...

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This is a fully digitized collection that includes February 2021 oral history transcript and scans of photographs.

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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.

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The collection contains a 2005 oral history transcript; photographs; military materials (facsimiles), 1944-1948; educational materials (facsimiles), 1947-1948, 1997; and religious materials (facsimiles), 1968-2005.

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The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 July 2019; scanned photographs of McClendon's time in the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1951.

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The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2001; a portrait photograph of McKinnon in summer uniform, circa 1944.

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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.

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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.