Attachment E KHS Women miltary collections artifacts.pdf
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This is a supporting exhibit document from the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) detailing the Women's Military Collections housed in their archives. The document provides a comprehensive catalog of artifacts and oral histories from female military service members, spanning from 1917 through the early 2000s. The collections include uniforms, personal items, photographs, and documented service records from women who served in various military branches including the Women's Army Corps (WAC), WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), Army Nurse Corps, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. The artifacts represent service during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and Operation Desert Shield. Each entry in the catalog includes the service member's name, time period of service, military branch or unit, accession number for archival purposes, and a direct online link to access the collection through KHS's PastPerfect database system.
The document serves as an institutional inventory of 30+ individual collections ranging in accession dates from 1968 to 2019, with most artifacts acquired between the 1970s and early 2000s. Notable collections include materials from pioneering female service members, such as Frances Gayhart, the first woman to enlist in the WAVES from Franklin County in 1943, and Jane White, the first female to join the Kentucky Air National Guard with small children in 1973. Many collections include specialized items such as nursing uniforms, Army Air Force flight nurse materials, and service-specific documentation. The collections are digitized and publicly accessible through the KHS online database, facilitating research and educational use of these historical military service records.
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KHS Women's Military Collections time period War Name Info Acc. # online link
1940 WWII
Emma H. Hunt Army 1968.18 Emma Hunt
1941-1945 WWII
Evans, Helen Horlacher served at an advanced base in the European Theater of Operations as part of the Women’s Army Corps
(includes underwear)
1976.71 Helen Evens
1942-1947 WWII
Mildred Schepers Genton US Army service 1942-1947 1977.61 Mildred Genton
1953-1955 Joan Dahringer Dale of Lebanon, WAVES, March 2, 1953-1955 1979.42 Joan Dale
WWII
Pearl Smyth Women's Army Corps in WWII, served as supply sergeant at Stark General Hospital, Charleston, South
Carolina (includes underwear)
1980.06 Pearl Smyth
1940-1970 WWII and
Korea Clara Margaret Fort Lt. Cmdr. Clara Margaret Fort served with the WAVES for over 20 years, including active duty during both
World War II and the Korean War
1987.33 Clara Fort
WWII
Grace Blair Skaggs 1989.23 Grace Skaggs
1917 WWII
Carolyn Apperson Leech 1990.11 Carolyn Leech
1942-1945 WWII
Mary Almira Spilman joined the U.S. Army as a nurse in 1942. In 1945 she took flight nurse training at Bowman field in Louisville and became an Army Air Force flight nurse.
1999.78 Mary Spilman
1980s-90s Verna Fairchild Army Nursing corps, uniform and oral history 2000.7 Verna Fairchild
1943 WWII
Georgia B. Gentry Rexroat Pearson WAC 2002.5 Georgia Pearson
1979-1993 Betty Elaine Holt served Navy 1979-1993; stationed at Norfolk, VA Naval Station; image in special collections, uniform 2002.7 Betty Holt
1990s Susan Hatfield includes maternity shirt 2002.8 Susan Hatfield
1964 Vietnam Martha Davis served in the US Navy as a nurse during Vietnam 2002.27 Martha Davis
1990s Gulf War Emma Darlene Shuler Staff Sergeant Emma Shuler was the second Kentucky National Guard women to be deployed during the Gulf war.
2002.28 Emma Shuler
1965-1993 Mary Frances Clark service in the Air Force from 1965 to 1993 2002.35 Mary Clark
1969-2002 Vietnam, Operation
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KHS Women's Military Collections time period War Name Info Acc. # online link
1943 WWII
Frances Gayhart enlisted in the WAVES program in March 1943 and became the first woman to do so from Franklin County. 2002.38 Frances Gayhart
WWII
Martha Ueltschi Penn service as a field nurse with the 35th EVAC Hospital in WWII 2003.41 Martha Penn
1970s Sue Lange United States Marine Corps 2003.51 Sue Lange
1942-1945 WWII
Ida Panhorst joined in January of 1942. From January 1944 to September 1945 she served in the European theater as a member of the Army Nurse Corps
2005.42 Ida Panhorst
2007.43 Nancy Welch
2005.43 Nancy Welch additional
1970s Jane W. White enlisted in the Kentucky Air National Guard on April 15, 1973. She was the first female to join the Air
National Guard that had small children. She also had to get a waiver to join because when was 30 years ld
2010.16 Jane White
1943 WWII
Reva (Hayden) Hopkins enlisted in the Women's Army Corps on December 18, 1943. Her name at the time of her enlistment was
Reva Hatchell
2019.77 Reva Hopkins
UN-3215
UN-3231
UN-3022
Margarite Early
1943 WWII
Nancy Evelyn Welch was in the first class of WAVES after the Navy opened it in 1943
WWII
Margarite B. Early service in the Pacific during World War II.
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