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United States--Armed Forces--Women

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Winifred Lund Caraway collection

 Collection — 98.0838 Box 1
Identifier: 98.0838
Scope and Contents

This collection relates to Corporal Winifred Lund Caraway who served with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. This collection contains scrapbooks, letters, postcards and photographs sent and collected by Caraway throughout World War II.

Dates: 1941-1946; Other: Date accessioned: 1998-12-28

Eva Romero Jacques collection

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2021 Box, Folder: 21.0003-Folder 1
Identifier: 21.0003
Content Description

This collection relates to Staff Sergeant Eva Romero Jacques who served with the Women's Army Corps as an Administrative Assistant at Sedalia Army Air Field in Warrensburg, MO, and then the Pacific Theater in New Guinea and the Philippines. The collection contains photographs, military classification cards, ephemera, and a newspaper article interview of Jacques.

Dates: 1942-2003; Event: Majority of material found within 1942-1946; Other: Date accessioned: 2021-03-12

Marie Oscar collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02.0031
Dates: 1917-1945; Other: Date accessioned: 2002-07-22

Bernice Vaughn collection

 File — Single Folder Collections - 2004 Box 5 (04.0155-04.0183), Folder: 04.0157 - Folder 1
Identifier: 04.0157
Content Description

This collection relates to Bernice Vaughn who served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. This collection contains an oral history transcript where Vaughn describes her assignment to Fort Benning, Georgia, her service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, and an episode of racism she experienced while serving. This collection also includes Bernice Vaughn's Army discharge certificate and family photographs.

Dates: Event: 1939-1945; May 12, 2004

Wilhelmina C. "Billie" Weezenaar collection

 Collection — 09.0156 - Box 1
Identifier: 09.0156
Scope and Contents

This collection relates to Wilhelmina C. "Billie" Weezenaar who served as a U.S. Army Nurse during World War II in the United States, Oran, Algeria, and England.  The collection contains a  photograph album with pictures and captions, a letter of commendation and other war documents, foreign currency, unit patches, rank insignia, and newspaper articles. Also included in the collection are documents related to war service and nursing, a personell list of the 151st Station Hospital, an autograph book, personal letters, primarily from patients and colleagues, photographs, and a portrait.

Dates: 1942-1946; Other: Date acquired: 2009-10-21; Other: Date accessioned: 2019-10-16