Women Veterans Historical Project

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: Dorothy Anderson Whiteford Collection; Dorothy Anderson Whiteford (b. 1921), of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served in the United States Navy WAVES from 1944-1946.

: 1949 WAF Photograph Album; This photograph album, from 1949, documents basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, during the early days of the Women in the Air Force and includes photographs of some of the earliest African Amercian WAFs.

: Anita Adams Oral History; Anita Adams (b. 1953), of Wilmington, North Carolina, served as a medic in the U.S. Army WAC (Women's Army Corps) as a medic from 1971-1977.

: Clara Adams-Ender Collection; Clara Adams-Ender (b. 1939), of Willow Springs, North Carolina, served as an officer in the United States Army Nurse Corps from 1961 to 1993, rising to the rank of brigadier general in 1987. She was chief of the Army Nurse Corps from 1987 to 1991, and retired in 1993 as the commanding general of Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

: Gail Adams Oral History; Gail Adams (b. 1951), of Cary, North Carolina, served in the United States Air Force from 1970 to 1993 in a wide range of capacities: traffic manager, professional military educator, Titan II nuclear missile commander and instructor, and public affairs officer. Adams was honorably discharged as a captain, and attained a master's degree in Operations Management while serving.

: Grace Alexander Oral History; Grace Swank Alexander (1927-2005) of Sewell, New Jersey, performed classified communications work at the Pentagon while in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1951 to 1953. She also operated special service clubs with the United States Air Force in Germany, Japan, England, and the Philippines in the mid-1950s.

: Helen Allegrone Collection; Helen R. Allegrone (1921-2009) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, served in cryptography in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from March 1943 until 1945.

: Pauline Rogstad Allison Collection; Pauline Rogstad Allison (b. 1918), of Winchendon, Massachusetts, served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1942 to 1948.

: American Red Cross Canteen Service Scrapbook; This scrapbook documents the work of the Oklahoma County World War I American Red Cross (“ARC”) canteen The canteen volunteers created care packages and ran a motorized kitchen for U.S. soldiers.

: Ann Holder Andavall Collection; Ann Holder Andavall (b. 1921), of Ashland, Oregon, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) as an aerial gunnery instructor during World War II.

: Elaine Agnes Anderson Collection; Elaine A. Anderson (1926-2016) of Galesville, Wisconsin, served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1949 to 1952, and in the United States Army Reserves from 1958 to 1968.

: J'Metria Anderson Collection; J'Metria Anderson (b. 1979), of Gulfport, Mississippi, served in the United States Marine Corps from 1997-2001.

: Laura G. Anderton Collection; Dr. Laura G. Anderton (1918-2011) of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from July 1943 until July 1946 and was a faculty member of the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1948 to 1986.

: Dale Augusta Van Vacter Angers Collection; Dale A. Van Vacter Angers (1913-2009) of Texas City, Texas, served in the United States Army Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), Women's Army Corps (WAC) and regular Army from 1942 to 1963.

: Doris Wofford Armenaki Collection; Doris Wofford Armenaki (1923-2013) of Cornelia, Georgia, served in the Cadet Nurse Corps and the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Armenaki became an assistant professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1975. She retired in 1992.

: Taps, the U.S. Army School of Nursing Class of 1929 Yearbook; The U.S. Army School of Nursing graduating class of 1929 at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

: Romany Arrowsmith Oral History; Romany Christina Arrowsmith (b. 1989) of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka, has served in the United States Navy and the Navy Reserves since 2009 as a Cryptologic Technician, Interpretive.

: Dora Ann DeHart Atha Collection; Dora Ann DeHart Atha (b. 1942), of Eden, North Carolina, served as an enlisted member of the United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1961 to 1964.

: Dorothy B. Austell Collection; Dorothy B. Austell (1920-2009), of Charlotte, North Carolina, served in the Unted States Army WAC (Women's Army Corps) during World War II performing undercover intelligence work against saboteurs.

: Dorothy Avery Collection; Dorothy Avery (1917-1999), of Salt Lake City, Utah was a pilot in the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) from 1943-1944,

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