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This collection consists of correspondence written by Alice Boehret during her service with the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Boehret wrote almost daily letters between 1942 and 1946 to her family, mainly her sisters and mother, and document her time in the European Theater of War, particularly with the 74th General Hospital.

Overview This collection contains a 12-page typescript memoir by Bobbe Johnson in which Johnson describes the days before, during, and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Johnson was living with her husband, a lieutenant with the U.S. Navy, in Oahu, Hawaii at the time. Johnson’s husband survived the attack, but many of their friends and coworkers did not. Johnson goes into detail regarding their fear of a Japanese invasion as well as everyone stepping up to take care of each other in the aftermath of...

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This collection is a single ration book issued to Brenda Sue Hutchison on May 11, 1945 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Overview This collection includes photographs and correspondence documenting Elizabeth K. Rogers’s time serving as a nurse during World War II. The photographs depict Rogers alongside other nurses while stateside, serving in France, and aboard their ship back to the United States following the end of the war. The letters include handwritten, typewritten, and V-mail correspondence between Rogers and her mother, Mrs. E. B. Rogers of Sevierville, during the war, particularly while Rogers was stationed...

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This collection includes two partially used ration books that were allocated to Ella S. Wheeler during 1942 and 1943.

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This collection documents Frances Lovelace's World War II service in WAVES. It contains copies of photographs, an invitation to the launching of the USS Hitchiti, detachment papers, news articles about Lovelace, and a short manuscript by Lovelace penned in 1973 entitled "Crisis 1973."

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Two portrait photographs of Geneva Thompson, who served with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II, in uniform. Also included is a newspaper clipping regarding Thompson.

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The Helen F. Kuhns Papers, 1944-1963 (bulk 1945) consist primarily of incoming correspondence of Kuhns, a member of the women's naval branch during World War II. In addition to incoming correspondence, this collection also contains government issued pamphlets and flyers as well as correspondence to the Round Robin group.

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This collection documents the World War II service and experiences of spouses Hubert and Bethel Whaley. Included are correspondence, military documents, propaganda leaflets, and postcards from the time of the war. Also included is a typed manuscript by Bethel entitled “Reminiscences of World War II” written in 1991.

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This collection includes 10 ration books issued during World War II to Jeanne Alice Barkley, her sister Elizabeth George Barkley, and their mother Blanche Joella Barkley. Also included are four issues of Yank magazine.

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This collection consists of one copy of War Ration Book For (number 107643) issued to Lillie Evans of Servilla, Tennessee in approximately 1943.

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This collection houses ration books issued to the Luttrell, Walling, McClure, Dunwoody, Aucker, Johnston, and Goehring families of Knoxville, Tennessee and to the Bucklew family of West Virginia during World War II. Ration books one through four are represented in addition to ration tokens and wallets to hold these materials.

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This collection consists of a single Red Cross surgical inspector's scarf belonging to Margaret Dickson during World War II.

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This collection features documents, news articles, and photographs from Marinell St. Clair Eldredge's participation in the 1945 Aviation Psychology Program Flight Project at the University of Tennessee. She was certified as a pilot for the U.S. Air Forces in 1945.

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This collection includes two items from Mary Delozier’s service during World War II as a nurse. It contains a Christmastime program and menu from an event at Kennedy General Hospital in 1943; names of officers and nurses, such as DeLozier, are included in the program. Also in the collection is a typescript form for authorized leave dated December 1945 at Fort Bragg; several service members are listed including DeLozier.

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This collection features eight newspaper clippings from the Milwaukee Journal discussing the efforts of American soldiers in World War II in 1944.

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This collection includes Roslyn Balcombe's 58-page handwritten memoir about her World War II experiences.

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This collection includes photocopies of photographs from Veda Bateman’s service with the American Red Cross during World War II. Also included are two buttons, one from the Red Cross, and with the Nazi Eagle insignia.