Jun 5, 2023
Five American Red Cross workers pose as if checking their hair in a compact's mirror (not a smart phone) in post-battle Corregidor, August 1945.
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Five American Red Cross workers pose as if checking their hair in a compact's mirror (not a smart phone) in post-battle Corregidor, August 1945.
Congratulations to the class of 1929 from the U.S. Army School of Nursing at Walter Reed General Hospital! This is page 36 from the yearbook "Taps."
1944 publication made by and for the enlisted U.S. Navy WAVES who did their boot camp at Hunter College (the WAVES nicknamed it U.S.S. Hunter) in the Bronx, New York. https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/wvhp%3A11914#page/1/mode/1up
80 years ago four African-American WAACS (the U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, the predecessor to the Women's Army Corps), posed in front of the Fort Des Moines Mess Hall. Remarkably, Fannie Griffin McClendon (far left) is still with us!
A page from a photo album illustrating WAFs (Women in the Air Force) during basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas in 1949!
Here's something different: a thank you note to the U.S. soldiers (and Army nurses) who served in Europe during WWI from King George V.
There are over 70 scrapbooks in the Women Veterans Historical Project collections! This is a page from Army dietitian and Woman's College (now UNCG) alumna Lucile Leonard when she was serving in Tunisia during WWII.
There were AT LEAST two scofflaws involved with this WWII photograph.