[Portrait of Helen Bauer Kilgore in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service Uniform]

Photograph of Helen Bauer seated in her Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service uniform, she is smiling with her hands clasped one over the other in her lap.
Date: 1945/1946~
Creator: United States. Navy
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group Photo of American Red Cross Staff]

Photograph of seven female American Red Cross workers posing for a group photograph in front of some foliage. The woman second from the right is obscuring another woman from view.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wounded Soldiers at Purple Heart Presentation]

Photograph of wounded servicemen at a presentation of Purple Hearts in Noumea, New Caledonia in August of 1944 in the middle of a large dirt area. On the right stands two rows of injured servicemen at attention, and on the right more servicemen standing at attention with a row sitting in the center on folding chairs due to leg injuries. The dirt area has been carved out of rolling hills that appear in the background of the photo. A portion of the camp can also be seen in the background.
Date: August 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Officer Speaking at Purple Heart Presentation]

Photograph taken at a Presentation of Purple Hearts in Noumea, New Caledonia in August of 1944. On the right stands an officer speaking into a microphone and behind him to the right stands service women and men at attention.
Date: August 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Servicemen and Women at Attention at a Presentation of Purple Hearts]

Photograph taken at a Presentation of Purple Hearts in Noumea, New Caledonia in August of 1944. Group of men and women military members stand at attention in rows behind a microphone.
Date: August 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Servicemen and Nurses Standing on Steps]

Photograph of two unidentified servicemen standing on a short set of wooden steps with two nurses. They are looking at the camera. The office on the left is wearing a uniform that includes a hat. The woman next to him is wearing pants and a button-up shirt. The man on her left is wearing a similar outfit and is wearing glasses. The nurse on the right of the photo is wearing a knee-length skirt and short-sleeved shirt and safari-style hat. The steps lead to a deck in front of a building. A coat is hanging over the deck railing to their right.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Service Members Attending Purple Heart Ceremony]

Photograph at the presentation of Purple Hearts in Noumea, New Caledonia, August 1944. Men and women service members stand at attention, while unidentified officer standing in front of them speaks into microphone.
Date: August 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Purple Heart Presentation at New Caledonia]

Photograph of a field where a presentation of Purple Hearts is taking place in Noumea, New Caledonia on August 1944. On the left stand a 2 groups of service members standing at attention, in the center stands another group at attention with one member standing with the American flag and a group of women are lined up facing them. On the right side of the photograph stands service members amongst some folding chairs, and a service band.
Date: August 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ungroomed Marines Being Addressed by Officer]

Photograph of a presentation of Purple Hearts in Noumea, New Caledonia, in August of 1944. Four Marines are lined up and standing at attention for an officer standing in front of them, while women service members hold papers off to the left alongside another officer.
Date: August 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Service Men and Women Passing Out Papers at Presentation of Purple Heart]

Photograph of a Presentation of Purple Hearts in Noumea, New Caledonia in August of 1944. On the left there are four people in white uniforms handing out papers to service members as they pass by while on the left a man is shown with his back to the camera.
Date: August 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mary Lou Laager With Helmet and Pack]

Photograph of Mary Lou Laager standing in front of some plants and a wooden fence wearing a light-colored pantsuit and holding a helmet and pack.
Date: 1942~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mary Lou Laager With Group]

Photograph of Mary Lou Laager dressed in nurse whites standing in the center of four men. Mary is holding hands with the man on her left. The group is standing in front of some parked cars and palm trees and all but the man on the far left are wearing leis.
Date: 1942~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mary Lou Laager in Dress Uniform]

Photograph of Mary Lou Laager posing in dress uniform in front of the hedges of a building.
Date: 1942~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mary Lou Laager in Uniform]

Photograph of Mary Lou Laager standing in front of some trees in an Army Nurse Corps uniform.
Date: 1942~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ensign Mary Mattei in Navy Nurse Corps Uniform]

Photograph of Mary Mattei posing with her head resting in her palm in a Navy Nurse Corps uniform while looking off to the left.
Date: 1942~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Bernice Shafer]

Photograph of Bernice Shafer in her Army Nurse Corps uniform. She is wearing a hat and looking off to the right.
Date: 1942~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Fishing]

Photograph of WAC members fishing with poles on a small boat and from a dock in Fort Myers, Florida. On the left stand two women on the curved wooden dock with fishing poles, the first one in a white bathing suit and the other in full uniform. On the right in a small boat sits a woman in a black bathing suit and no fishing pole and to her right sit two women in uniform with fishing poles.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Playing Tabletop Tennis]

Photograph of four unknown members of the women's Auxiliary Corps playing Tabletop Tennis with two unidentified male officers. On the right one of the women leans on a palm tree with a one of the officers. On the left side of tennis table stand two women with paddles in hand, and on the right, there is a woman with the other officer also holding paddles. Behind all of them is a beach with palm trees and a small boat and oar resting on the sand.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Laughing With Officers]

Photograph of three members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps talking and laughing with two officers. On the right stands one of the officers with two women in uniform beside him. In front of them sitting on a bench is the other officer with his legs crossed sitting next to a woman in uniform.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women's Auxiliary Corps Members Playing Beach Vollyeball With Men]

Photograph of members of the Women's auxiliary Corps and officers/soldiers playing volleyball on the beach. On the right side of the volleyball net stands a man in swim trunks, three women in bathing suits and another man in swim trunks. In the center by the far volleyball net pole, stand two women in full uniform underneath a single palm tree. On the left side of the volleyball net a woman in a bathing suit is jumping with a volleyball suspended in air above her, she is blocking man in swims trunk almost completely although his arms and legs can be seen. On the left side there is also two more women in bathing suits with a man in swim trunks between them.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Hanging Out by a Pool]

Photograph of members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps and some male soldiers in and standing next to pool in Florida. On the right side of the image stand a cluster of 3 women in the pool, two women standing on the ladder out the pool and a woman in a swim cap crouching down outside the pool by the ladder. Behind where the pool ladder is there are two women standing in full uniform. There are several men and women milling about in the background amongst the palm trees.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Unknown Member of Women's Auxiliary Corps]

Photograph of an unidentified member of the Army Air Forces Women's Auxiliary Corps looking over to the right with a close-lipped smile in full uniform.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Geraldine Byrom & Others Sit Around a Small Table]

Photograph of Geraldine Byrom and two other unknown women, and three unknown officers sitting around a small, checkered table. Geraldine Byrom is the woman on the far right.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: Byrom, Geraldine
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Agnes Langley Niernberger in Army Nurse Corps Uniform]

Photograph of Agnes Langley Niernberger posing in an Army Nurse Corps uniform Her body is angled to the right as she looks straight on with a tight-lipped smile.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History