Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection

Only a part of this collection has been digitized.

Photographs; service diary; military papers; flight log; United States Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia Pictorial Review; circa 1943-1945; WAVES of the Navy: A Story of the Women's Reserve Activities at the Naval Air Station by Eunice A. Horne; Certificate of Satisfactory Service ID Card, 1946; Officer's Cap Device; Lieutenant's Collar Bars; Honorable Service "Ruptured Duck" Pin, Dog Tags, 1942. Related Collection: The Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection (MSS 173); in the Manuscripts Collection includes artifacts; biographical information; correspondence; photographs; a scrapbook; diaries; and memorabilia relating to Terry's life before and after her military service.

Henrietta Pearl Terry (1904-1981), of Virdin, Illinois, served in the United States Navy WAVES from 1942 to 1945. Henrietta Pearl Terry, a professor of mathematics, joined the WAVES in 1942. Lieutenant Terry was trained as an aerologist and stationed at the United States Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia. As an aerologist she accompanied many flight crews, but according to her diary and flight log she learned to fly and often piloted these planes herself.

Women's History
Military

Navy -- WAVES

World War II era (1940-1946)

World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women

Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries