Sonia Visser manuscript, 2008, Date acquired: 2008-02-18, Date accessioned: 2009-08-23, bulk 1943-1945
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Visser, Sonia
- Scott, Suzanne
- Extent:
- 1 folders
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Sonia Visser manuscript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_08_0032.
Background
- Scope and content:
The Sonia Visser collection contains one folder with a 24-page typed transcript of an oral history interview and another six page document with questions and answers from Sonia Visser.
- Biographical / historical:
Sonia Visser (née Basset) was born May 20, 1922, in Long Island, New York. She had two older sisters and an older brother. She grew up in New York City. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she waited until she was 21 and eligible to join the Women's Army Corps. She joined summer 1943. She chose the Army because she was more familiar with it than the Coast Guard or WAVES and because her older brother was in the Army in North Africa and Italy.
- Acquisition information:
Sonia Visser
Donated
- Custodial history:
Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.
- Processing information:
Entered 01/30/2017
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Uniforms, Military
Sexual assault
Breast--Tumors.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--New Guinea
V-J Day, 1945
Malaria
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean
Oral history - Names:
- United Service Organizations (U.S.)
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps - Places:
- Fort Devens (Mass.)
Fort Des Moines (Iowa)
Camp Grant (Ill.)
Camp Oglethorpe (Ga.)
Camp Stoneman (Pittsburg, Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)
Jayapura (Indonesia)
Fort Dix (N.J.)
Access and use
- Restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers.
- Terms of access:
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Sonia Visser manuscript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_08_0032.
- Location of this collection:
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116 Honors WayTallahasseeFL32306-2047USA
