Mary Rita Kulik Collection

Digitization of this collection is still in progress.

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Randolph field photograph album, documents, selective service papers, certificates, unused WAC V Post Cards, a folder of basic training for Instrument flying, a “Life in the Service” booklet that she partially filled out, WAC newsletter, etc. A few service medals and a pair of sterling silver earrings. The album contains photographs dating from 1943 to 1946 that depicts Mary Kulik and her colleagues at leisure and military activities. The photographs were taken at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Lubbock, Texas; San Antonia, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; Luke Field, Arizona; Randolph Field, Texas; and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Also included are a few snapshots of Atlantic City, New Jersey; Biak Island, Indonesia; Carlsbad, New Mexico; and New Guinea. Of particular interest are photographs of Kulik instructing a student in a LINK trainer, a LINK C-3 Trainer, and a group photograph taken in 1944 of the forty-six male instructors and four female LINK instructors at Lubbock, Texas. Several loose photographs relating to Fort Oglethorpe and Lubbock are housed in archival sleeves and stored in envelopes inside the clamshell box housing the album.

Mary Rita Kulik (1918-2008), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a flight instructor for the United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1946. She served at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Lubbock Field, Texas; Luke Field, Arizona; Randolph Field, Texas; and Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Women's History
Military

Army -- WAC

World War II era (1940-1946)

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

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