[Portrait of three SPARS,1944]
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Title |
[Portrait of three SPARS,1944] |
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Date |
1944 |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Coast Guard |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Coast Guard--SPARS |
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Item description |
Virginia Van Dongen (top) and two fellow Coast Guard SPARS from the Atlantic City station pose in 1944. |
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Veteran's name |
Van Dongen, Virginia Young |
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Veteran's biography |
Virginia "Ginny" Young Van Dongen of Rochester, New York, was a U.S. Coast Guard SPAR (Semper Paratus--Always Ready) from 1943 to 1945 .
Virginia Van Dongen was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Rochester, New York. Her father operated an upscale grocery store and her mother was a homemaker. Van Dogen attended John Marshall High School and began working for Eastman Kodak as a keypunch operator, probably in 1940 .
Van Dongen joined the SPARs in 1943 and completed basic training in West Palm Beach, Florida. After nine days as a keypunch operator in Washington, D.C., Van Dongen attended radio school in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for five months. She served from the fall of 1943 to the fall of 1945 in communications at Port Angeles, Washington. Van Dongen was discharged as a radioman third class in late 1945 .
Van Dongen returned to her job at Eastman Kodak after the war. She was married in May 1946 and raised eight children. |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Image type |
Formal portrait |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0015 Virginia Van Dongen Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse. |
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Object ID |
WV0015.6.001 |
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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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OCLC number |
900810445 |
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