Muriel Bunker papers 1942-2007 1942 - 1945

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Muriel Bunker papers 1942-2007 1942 - 1945

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This collection contains letters from Marquette, Michigan native Muriel Bunker written while she served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Most of the correspondence is from Muriel to her parents. Other correspondence includes letters from Muriel to her sister; from Muriel to Aunt Min and Uncle Ed Anderson; from her brother Earl to Muriel; from soldiers to mother. The bulk of the collection is dated between 1942 and 1945. The collection includes a few photographs; news clippings; flyers; samples of V-mail; and a CD and typed transcript of an interview with Bunker conducted by Sonya Chrisman on May 23, 2007.

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Olson Library, Northern Michigan University, Lydia M. Olson Library

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Olson Library, Northern Michigan University, Lydia M. Olson Library

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United States. Army. Women's Army Corps

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The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the US Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, and converted to full status as the WAC in 1943. Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby, the wife of a prominent politician and publisher in Houston, Texas. About 150,000 American women served in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. They were the first women other than nurses to serve with the Army. While conservative opinion in the leadership of...

Bunker, Muriel

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A native of Marquette, Michigan, Muriel Bunker served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and was stationed in the United States, England, France, and Germany between 1944 and 1945. Before the war, Bunker had been a nurse's aide at the Newberry State Hospital in Newberry, Michigan. She was in the Women's Army Corps for seven months and nine days, from March 21, 1944 and September of 1945. From the description of Muriel Bunker papers 1942-2007 1942 - 1945 (Olson Library, Nor...