Eunice Onsrud Hall Papers and Photographs
1942-2004
WVM Mss 841
1.2 linear ft. (3 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) of papers and 0.6 linear ft. (2 archives boxes) of photographs.
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Papers and photographs of Eunice Onsrud Hall, a member of the 6669th Women's Army Corps (W.A.C.) Headquarters Platoon who served in North Africa and Italy during World War II. The collection consists largely of the letters Hall wrote home to her family during her wartime service and also while she worked in Greece for the Corps of Engineers from 1947-1948. The war letters described her basic training in the United States and, to the extent allowed by censors, her overseas service as part of the 5th Army. She described military life, living conditions, and recreational activities during the war. Other war-related materials include her military papers and local newspaper clippings describing her service. Her correspondence from Greece also described living conditions and recreational activities in addition to her thoughts on the Greek people. Postcards document the trips she took to nearby countries during her time in Europe. Materials from her life as a veteran include two typed reminiscences, materials relating to her late husband Reynold Hall, also a World War II veteran, and her interest in the Women in Military Service Memorial near Washington, DC. Photographs include numerous unidentified shots of Hall and fellow W.A.C.'s in North Africa and Italy during World War II. There are many photographs of recreational activities in Greece from her stay there. Also included are photographs from her trip along with other 5th Army veterans to Italy in 2001 to visit American cemeteries there and old battlegrounds.
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