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Box WV ACD 01

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 Item — Box: WV ACD 01
Identifier: WV 0044- File Folder 1 - Item Item 28
Scope and Contents From the File: Documents Mattie Donnell Hicks's early life, service in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966, and post-war life in Greensboro, N.C. Hicks provides a brief description of her basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, in an integrated unit as well as complications at the hospital at Camp San Luis Obispo due to being in a segregated black unit. Toward the end of the interview she comments on the sense of family in the military and her adjustment to civilian work after more than twenty years...
Dates: 1999 February 25