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]> Finding Aid for the Lauretta Webster Wilkin Papers, 1943-1946 Processed by: Beth Carmichael; machine-readable finding aid created by: Beth Carmichael University Archives & ManuscriptsThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Greensboro, NC, USA

2007 Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: June 2007. Description is in English. Finding aid was prepared using DACS. Finding Aid for the Lauretta Webster Wilkin Papers, 1943-1946 University Libraries, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro &hdrnguscua; Descriptive Summary The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Archives & Manuscripts. Wilkin, Lauretta Webster Lauretta Webster Wilkin Papers, 1943-1946 WV0307 Material in English. Approximately 60 items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult University Archives & Manuscripts. Lauretta Webster Wilkin served in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. Letters to her family in West Covington, Kentucky, and several photographs document Wilkin's military service. Subjects include basic training; uniforms and equipment; her work in the army's drafting department; the transition from the WAAC to the WAC in 1943; war news; family affairs; and social life and recreation. Photographs are of individual and groups of WACs in uniform. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Lauretta Webster Wilkin Papers (WV0307), Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased in 2004.

Processing Information

Processed by Beth Carmichael, July 2005

Encoded by Beth Carmichael, June 2007

Biographical Note

Lauretta Webster Wilkin served in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. She completed basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in early 1943 and served in the drafting department at the Army Port of Los Angeles in Wilmington, California, from May 1943 to 1945. She married George Wilkin in late 1944.

Collection Overview

Letters to her family in West Covington, Kentucky, and several photographs document Lauretta Webster Wilkin's service in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. Subjects include basic training; WAAC parades; uniforms and equipment; her work in the army's drafting department; the transition from the WAAC to the WAC in 1943; war news; family affairs; and social life and recreation, including her softball team, parties, visits with friends, and her courtship and marriage to George Wilkin. Photographs are of individual and groups of WACs in uniform.

Collection Arrangement

Collection is arranged by format and chronologically.

Detailed Description of the Collection Papers, 1943-46

Letters to her family in West Covington, Kentucky, document Lauretta Webster Wilkin's service in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. Subjects include basic training; WAAC parades; uniforms and equipment; her work in the army's drafting department; the transition from the WAAC to the WAC in 1943; war news; family affairs; and social life and recreation, including her softball team, parties, visits with friends, and her courtship and marriage to George Wilkin. Photographs are of individual and groups of WACs in uniform.

1 Letters, 1943 2-3 Letters, 1944 4 Letters, 1945-1946 5 Photographs, circa 1944 Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Basic training (Military education) Recreation. United States--Armed Forces--Women. United States. Army. Women's Army Corps United States. Army. Women's Army Corps--Uniforms. Wilkin, Lauretta Webster Women veterans--United States World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.