Juanita Goold and Gerald F. Wilke Papers and Photographs
1943-1995
- Juanita Goold and Gerald F. Wilke
WVM Mss 716
1.4 linear ft. (2 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes) of papers and 0.2 linear ft. (1 archives box) of photographs.
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Papers and photographs of Juanita Goold and Gerald F. Wilke, who both served in overseas in World War II and married shortly after the war. Juanita Goold Wilke was an officer in the Women's Army Corps (W.A.C.) who worked as a cryptographer in the European Theater. Gerald F. Wilke was a technician with the 5th Army in the North African and Mediterranean theaters. The collections consists mostly of materials relating to Juantia's service including a large number of letters she wrote home to a female friend in Madison. These letters describe W.A.C. training and her observations of the war, the people, and the places that she encountered in Europe. A scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, postcards, and pictures that compliment the events described in the letters. A diary and journal contain small entries that often repeat information from the letters or scrapbooks. Military papers include some reports dealing with the disposition of cryptographic documents, though they do not go into great detail. Also included in the collection is a scrapbook detailing Gerald's service. Photographs and paper ephemera compliment the written narrative within the book to give a brief summary of Gerald's World War II service. Photographs include many shots of Juanita in W.A.C. uniform as well as shots from W.A.C. training camps.
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