United States. Army Nurse Corps
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Mattie Donnell Hicks Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0044
Abstract
African American nurse Mattie Donnell Hicks of Greensboro, N.C., served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966.Artifacts, an oral history interview, and textiles document her service in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II and the Korean War. Artifacts include service ribbons, cuff buttons, and shoulder insignia. The oral history interview documents Hicks's early life, her military service, and her post-war life in Greensboro, N.C. Specific subjects include basic training...
Dates:
1942-1999
Lola H. Ryan Letters
Collection
Identifier: WV 0362
Scope and Contents
The collection contains approximately 120 letters and v-mail written by Lola Ryan to her parents and brother. Ryan discusses her experiences of being a nurse in basic training, the conditions in wartime France, German prisoners of war, her experiences as a wartime nurse, and her longing to return home and be discharged from the army.
Dates:
1943-1945
Clara Fredere Sullivan Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0450
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an album of photographs taken during Clara's time in the Army Nurse Corps, a copy of handwritten reminiscences, a copy of her certificate of identity from the War Department, and a medical kit.
Dates:
1918-1919
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- Military nursing -- United States 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States 2
- African American soldiers -- Interviews 1
- African American women -- Interviews 1
- France -- Description and travel 1
- Hicks, Mattie Donnell -- Interviews 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, Female 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Women -- United States 1
- Military nursing -- United States -- 20th century 1
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Interviews 1
- United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Interviews 1
- United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Military life 1
- Women soldiers -- United States 1
- Women veterans -- United States -- Interviews 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- France 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Female 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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