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Luisa C. White papers
Correspondence, letters sent and received, 1944–1945, when she was a WAVE at NAS, Atlanta, GA and served as a Link Trainer Instructor, NAS Lake City, FL; Miscellany, including imprints; Photographs in navy uniform.
Bernard L. Pemstein papers
Correspondence, personal letters sent, mainly from U.S. Naval Training Station, Newport, RI, July 6, 1943–August 19, 1943 to his parents and grandmother and from US Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, VA, September 4, 1943; Letter from nephew Private Edward Sharansky, USA to Mrs. Ida Pemstein, July, 1943; Official application to USNR, supporting documents, 1943 and official letters, 1943.
John W. Wadsworth letters
Correspondence, letters sent from USS Plymouth, in Norfolk, VA, Key West, Cuba, and Haiti, June 3–September 20, 1858, to his mother, brother and sister. He describes life aboard ship, personal details, a trip ashore in Sagua, Cuba, and breakfast with a port officer, visiting shops there, receipt of her letter in Havana, Cuba, his studying Spanish, lack of money, the Cuban señoritas, Negroes of Cuba, the ship’s route, visit to Port au Prince, Haiti, and the Negro population there, criticisms of his mess mates and sailors (their lack of manners, education and selfishness), port call in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to transport U.S. Minister, Mr. Forsyth, home, his unfavorable impressions of the city, voyage to Tampico to protect American property, his desire to be home and his dislike of life at sea.
Robert Chase correspondence
Letters received from his father and stepmother, relatives in England, his fiancée and then wife, Helen Pettingell, sister, grandmother and friends, 1937–1945; Letters sent to his parents, 1944–1945; Letters of Robert Tremblay, Joseph Andrews, Irene Harper (WAC, USA), H. Johnson and Helen to his parents, the Chester Chases, 1943–1945; Christmas cards; Miscellany, including citation for Purple Heart Medal, 1945. The letters received detail events on the home front, politics, and news of friends, movies, wedding plans, FDR’s death, work and trips. Robert’s letters tell about shipboard life on USS Kidd, his health, appearance, a Japanese attack, future plans, meeting friends from home, and leave. Censorship prevented him from writing about the invasions in which they participated.
S. Gilbert Webber papers
Letter sent to and received from his fiancée, Nannie P. Sturtevant of Boston, MA, February 15–November 24, 1862. Webber was a naval surgeon stationed at the Boston Navy Yard and on board USS Ohio during the Civil War. Letters discuss his patients and their ailments, Christianity, his urging his fiancée to become a Christian, the Civil War and slavery, Christian Prayer meetings, his spiritual life and progress.
L. Jane Irvine Williams postcards
Postcards sent to her mother, Mrs. F.K. Irvine, Chicago, IL and received, 1944–1946, during her service in the WAVES at the U.S. Naval Training School (WR), Bronx, New York, USNH, Philadelphia, PA and USNH, San Diego, CA.
Donald W. Wulzen papers
Naval Orders, 1935–1966; Correspondence, including letters regarding medals, 1945–1966, including the Navy Cross for WWII action, which he did not receive; Letters of commendation and appreciation, 1914–1968, and letter of congratulations regarding retirement from the Navy in 1969; Personal memoirs of naval service entitled “A Sailor’s Story: Ports of Call”. Naval career photographs; Certificates, 1937–1985; Citations, 1944–1969; Newspaper clippings undated–1996; Miscellany, including untitled piece on tradition in the U.S. Navy and precedence list for CO, Amphibious Force, Group One, 1965–1966.
Evelyn M. Powell Grubaugh papers
Memoirs of naval service in the WAVES; Naval papers, including separation from service, 1946; Newspaper clippings, WAVES Matchbook, ration card; Imprints, including Havelock, November–December 1945; WAVES songbook and jokebook; Group photograph of WAVES at U.S. Training School (WR) Bronx, NY and in Washington, D.C., 1944–1946.
Barbara Tanner Aldrich letters
Letters received from WAVES Dorothy Rising and Norma Jackson, 1943–1945, regarding their service in the WAVES, billets, housing, recreation, vacations, visit of Captain Mildred McAfee, WAVES Director, postwar plans and attitude toward the Navy.
Norma G. Smith papers
Photograph album of VJ Day Parade in Honolulu, Hawaii, September 3, 1945 and other photographs of Hawaii; Two photographs of nurses and patients at Newport Naval Hospital, 1945; Imprints of Base Eight Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii, second Anniversary Edition, 1945, and Aloha booklet for those who served in Hawaii, 1941–1945; Resume of service in Navy Nurse Corps, 1944–1946.