Title	Theresa A. Burnett Papers
Date	Undated
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Navy--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Manuscript collection. Not yet digitized.
Veteran's name	Burnett, Theresa A.
Veteran's biography	Theresa A. Muscarelli Burnett (b. 1928)was a Petty Officer 3rd class in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service--U.S. Navy) circa 1949.
Type	Collection
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0364 Theresa A. Burnett Papers
Collection summary	The collection includes a letter to Burnett from Lucile Thompson of the Office of Naval Officer Procurement who inquired how Burnett was doing at the Great Lakes Naval Center for her basic training. Another letter, dated 19 March 1949, was written by Burnett to her family and it describes basic training and her free time off base in Waukegan, Illinois. The collection also includes a navy blue jacket and skirt, a navy blue garrison cap, a seersucker garrison cap, a shoulder navy ranking insignia for Petty Officer 3rd class; a clipping about WAVES Captain Joy Bright Hancock From American Magazine.
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	WV0364.0.000
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/

Theresa A. Burnett Papers

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