Ruth M. Strawn Papers
Title |
Ruth M. Strawn Papers |
Date |
1943-1945 |
Date approximate? |
yes |
Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women |
Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
Service branch |
Army--WAC |
Item description |
Manuscript collection. Not digitized. |
Veteran's name |
Strawn, Ruth S. |
Veteran's biography |
Ruth Marlatt Strawn (1920-?), of California, enlisted in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) as an Aviation Cadet on 21 January 1943. In 1945, she was stationed at Camp Ross in Wilmington, California, until the end of the war. |
Type |
Collection |
Language |
en |
Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
Source collection |
WV0423 Ruth M. Strawn Papers, 1945-1946 |
Collection summary |
This collection consists of eight personal letters from Strawn to Mrs. and/or Mr. Webster of West Covington, Kentucky, and one letter from Strawn's friend Lauretta to her parents .
These letters talk about the active life she enjoyed with Lauretta and their fellow WACs off-duty. She also described the places she, Lauretta, and her parents travelled to, discussed her brief stay in the base hospital whlie undergoing surgery for a hernia, and lastly her excitement that the end of the war was announced. |
Finding aid link |
http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=684&q=strawn |
Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ |
Additional rights information |
COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
Object ID |
WV0423.0.000 |
Digital publisher |
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
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