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Title	[Virginia Gilbert Mattson, circa 1945]
Date	1945
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	Formal headshot of Virgina G. Mattson in WAVES seersucker uniform, taken while she was stationed at the Naval Supply Depot in Mechanicsburg, PA, from 1945 to 1946.
Veteran's name	Mattson, Virginia Gilbert
Veteran's biography	Virginia “Ginny” Gilbert Mattson (1922-2003) of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, served with the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1944 to 1946 . Virginia “Ginny” Gilbert Mattson of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was born on 27 January 1922 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Williamsport High School in 1938 and then attended Dickinson Junior College and Susie Wheaton’s Business School, also in Williamsport. Mattson then worked in a women’s apparel store . Mattson joined the WAVES in June 1944. She attended basic training at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York, and then completed three months of yeoman training at Cedar Falls, Iowa. She served in the personnel office at the Naval Supply Depot in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, until her discharge in August 1946 . Ginny Mattson married Arnold M. Mattson on 11 June 1947, and they adopted their daughter, Katharine Mattson, in 1956. They lived in New York and Greensboro, North Carolina. Ginny Mattson died 19 December 2003.
Place	Mechanicsburg (Pa.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0014 Virginia Gilbert Mattson Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0014.6.001
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	900810693

[Virginia Gilbert Mattson, circa 1945]

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