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United States. Army Nurse Corps

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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Doris Wofford Armenaki Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0079
Scope and Contents Doris Wofford Armenaki of Cornelia, Ga., served in the Cadet Nurse Corps and the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.Included are artifacts, an oral history interview, and a photograph documenting Armenaki's service and nursing experiences. Artifacts include dog tags, identification materials, an Army Nurse Corps cloisonne pin, and army patches. Oral history interview documents Armenaki's early education, her military service, her personal life after the war, and her nurses...
Dates: 1944-1999

Josephine L. DePietro Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0461
Scope and Contents This collection consists of twenty-eight letters written to and from DePietro's friends and family. The collection begins with the letters written by DePietro when she attended nursing school; the last letter in the collection is addressed to her parents and discusses news from family and provides updates on her activities. Most of the letters are written to her; there are letters from her significant other Sam, who was stationed with the Army Air Force at Bowman Field in Kentucky. There are...
Dates: 1938-1945; Other: Date acquired: 2009 April 13

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

Margaret Catherine Moore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0088
Abstract

Margaret Catherine Moore (1913-1975) was a Woman's College alumna, nurse and nurse educator after whom the UNCG School of Nursing building is named. The Margaret Catherine Moore Papers date from 1913 to 1982 and contain biographical material, diplomas and degrees, a high school annual, photographs, Moore's thesis from New York University, and World War II materials.

Dates: 1913 - 1982

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

Roberta Wooddell House and Nancy Wooddell Thornton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0363
Scope and Contents Folder one contains photographs of Roberta and Nancy as well as a few family photographs. The photographs also include publicity photographs of Roberta as a WAAC at Luke Field, Arizona and Chandler, Arizona.Folder two contains ten letters written by both Roberta and Nancy to their Mother, Aunt May and Grandmother. These letters discuss general news, such as Nancy's reaction to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death, and updates on their lives in the military. There is also...
Dates: 1941-1946; Other: Date acquired: 08/11/2006

Frances Stanley Trembath Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0492
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of military and miscellaneous documents from 1942-1946; there are also twenty-one photos of Trembath, her nursing colleagues, hospital buildings, and waterfalls. There is one handwritten, unsigned letter from the Western Marine Railway company, asking for a travel refund.

Dates: 1942-1946; Other: Date acquired: 06/02/2010

Women Veterans General Printed Materials and Video Recordings Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0002
Abstract Recruiting brochures, publications, manuals and guides, postcards, ephemeral materials, posters, and video recordings purchased by University Archives and Manuscripts on a continuing basis supplement and complement the individual veterans collections in the Women Veterans Historical Collection. This collection includes various types of printed materials dating from 1864, and then World War I to 2018. The majority is from the Women's Army Corps, Women's Air Force, WAVES (Women Accepted for...
Dates: 1864, 1918-2018; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1949

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Women and the military 6
United States. Army--Women 5
Women veterans 5
Women in war 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
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Military nursing -- United States 3
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, Female 2
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Women -- United States 2
Military nursing -- United States -- 20th century 2
United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Interviews 2
Women veterans -- United States -- Interviews 2
Afghan War, 2001- 1
African American soldiers -- Interviews 1
African American women -- Interviews 1
Armenaki, Doris Wofford -- Interviews 1
Forest Park High School (Baltimore, Md.) -- Students -- Yearbooks 1
France -- Description and travel 1
Hicks, Mattie Donnell -- Interviews 1
Iraq War, 2003-2011 1
Nurse administrators -- Virginia 1
Nurses -- North Carolina 1
Nursing schools -- North Carolina -- Greensboro -- Faculty 1
Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Participation, Female 1
Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Women -- United States 1
Teachers -- United States 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Interviews 1
United States. Army -- Nurses -- Interviews 1
United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Military life 1
United States. Cadet Nurse Corps -- Interviews 1
University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1
University of North Carolina at Greensboro -- Faculty -- Interviews 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Female 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Women 1
Woman's College of the University of North Carolina -- Alumni and alumnae 1
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 1
Women sailors -- United States 1
Women soldiers -- United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- Europe 1
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