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United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Interviews

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

Constance Cline Phillips Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0082
Content Description

The collection includes various Women's Army Corps publications, 1944; 2 event programs, 1945; various photographs of Phillips Women's Army Corps service with the Women's Army Corps, 1945-1946; various military papers with identification passes, 1945-1946; correspondence with her parents and friends, February-April 1945, January-August 1946; an oral history transcript, 24 May 1999.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Geraldine Muse Phillips Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0129
Abstract

Geraldine Muse Phillips (b. 1927), of Birmingham, Alabama, and North Carolina served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from February 1949 until 1950.

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Phillips in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform at school in Fort Lee, Virginia, circa 1949.

Dates: circa 1949 to 1950

Elsie Prevatte Pickett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0462
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 April 2009; photographs; a postcard; press release.

Dates: 1959-1960, 2009

Dorothy Jane Rechel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0196
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 January 2001; magnetic tape and cassette tape labeled "Letter to Mother during Tet offensive, 1968"; and portrait photograph of Rechel in Army white dress uniform, circa early 1970s.

Dates: circa 1968-2001

Myrtle A. Rhoden Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0171
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1941-1945

Mildred Curtis Scott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0092
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Scott's Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various military papers, June-December 1945.

Dates: 1943-1999

Norma Petree Shaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0217
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 May 2001; photographs of Norma in Manila, Philippines, 1945. Newspaper clippings, 1943; WAC certificate, 1943.

Dates: 1943, 1945, 2001

Davetter Shepard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0172
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 December 2000; portrait photograph of Shepard in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943.

Dates: circa 1943-2000

Helen Shoobridge Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0473
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2004 December

Lucy Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0081
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 May 1999; a photograph of Smith in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Mary Galster Layton Starkey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0614
Content Description

This collection includes June 2016 oral history transcript and copies and originals of photographs and military papers.

Dates: 1969-2016

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

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

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

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

Doris Dickens Wilson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0388
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 March 2007; copy of handwritten service memories and photocopy of photographs in scrapbook during service during WWII from 1942-1945.

Dates: 1942-1945, 2007