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f)Bov& fyevtew WAVES
Object Description
Title
A
boot's
eye-view
[circa
1944]
Date
1944
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
Orientation
book
for
WAVES
recruits
"
boots
"
entering
the
U.S
.
Naval
Training
School
at
Hunter
College
,
New
York
,
during
World
War
II
.
Included
are
photos
of
officers
and
information
on
barracks
life
,
meals
,
uniforms
,
exercise
,
drills
,
classes
,
religion
, and
jobs
.
Veteran's name
Williams, Virgilia
Veteran's biography
Virgilia
"
Jill
"
Williams
(1914-2003)
of
Grandview
,
Iowa
,
served
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
as a
pharmacist's
mate
third
class
at
Camp
LeJeune
,
North
Carolina
, and an
instructor
of
pharmacist's
mates
at the
U.S
.
Naval
Training
School
in the
Bronx
,
New
York
,
during
World
War
II
.
Virgilia
"
Jill
"
Williams
was
born
16
October
1914
, in
Grandview
,
Iowa
, the
third
child
of
Harold
and
Leila
(Lieberknecht)
Williams
. She
graduated
with
honors
from
Mount
Vernon
High
School
, and in
1936
received
a
bachelor
of
arts
in
history
and
education
from
Cornell
College
in
Mount
Vernon
. She
later
earned
certifications
from
Augustana
College
and
Northwestern
University
and
became
a
teacher
of the
deaf
and
hearing
impaired
.
Williams
joined
the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
in
May
1944
and was
sent
to the
U.S
.
Naval
Training
School
at
Hunter
College
in the
Bronx
,
New
York
. She
attended
hospital
corps
school
at the
Naval
Medical
Center
in
Bethesda
,
Maryland
, and was then
assigned
to the
hospital
at
Camp
LeJeune
,
North
Carolina
,
where
she
served
as a
pharmacist's
mate
. In
August
1945
she was
transferred
back
to the
Bronx
,
where
she
worked
as an
instructor
of
pharmacist's
mates
.
When
Williams
was
honorably
discharged
from the
navy
in
December
1945
, she
returned
to the
Midwest
where
she
taught
elementary
school
for
over
forty
years
.
Upon
her
death
in
2003
, she
donated
her
body
to the
University
of
Iowa
Medical
School
for
scientific
research
.
Type
text
Original format
pamphlets
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [U.S. Navy]
Language
en
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0345 Virgilia Williams Papers, 1942 - 1945
Collection summary
The
collection
contains
correspondence
,
military
papers
,
photographs
,
postcards
,
publications
, and a
scrapbook
kept
by
Virgilia
. The
correspondence
between
Williams
and her
sisters
and also with her
WAVES
friends
documents
her
time
in the
military
and her
experiences
being
a
woman
in the
U.S
.
Navy
. The
photographs
contain
not
only
images
of
Williams
, but
photographs
of
fellow
WAVES
as
well
. The
largest
portion
of the
collection
consists
of
military
publications
.
Box
1
Folder
6: Publications, A Boot's Eye-view, circa 1944
Finding aid link
http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=302
Rights statement
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information
NO
COPYRIGHT
-
UNITED
STATES
. This
item
has been
determined
to be
free
of
copyright
restrictions
in the
United
States
. The
user
is
responsible
for
determining
actual
copyright
status
for any
reuse
of the
material
.
Object ID
WV0345.2.003
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/
OCLC number
900817527
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