Leah T. Willis Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Only a part of this collection has been digitized.
What's in the full collection?: Handwritten and typed correspondence to and from Leah during her service ih the Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps, 1944-45; Military records and official paperwork, 1942-1948; Official military portrait photograph of Leah in her Army uniform; photographs of Leah and friends during service, 1941-1948; "Sir, Ma'am" typed manuscript containing letters during her service 1941-1948; resume and employment record; post- military written correspondence to friends; poetry; banking and estate records; funeral cards, and correspondence.
Full biography: Leah T. Willis, of Winston Salem, North Carolina, was a dietitian in the Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps during World War II.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Schools and Colleges
Branch of service: Army -- Army Medical Specialist Corps - Diet
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Leah T. Willis; Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps member Leah T. Willis poses outside a house in her olive drab off-duty uniform, circa 1944.

: Leah T. Willis; Leah T. Willis poses outside at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, while on leave from the Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps, circa 1944. She wears her beige off-duty uniform.

: Leah T. Willis in duty dress; Dietitian Leah T. Willis, in the brown and white seersucker duty dress with cap and cape also worn by army nurses, circa 1944.

: Portrait of Leah T. Willis; Portrait of army dietitian Lean T. Willis, circa 1945.

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