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[Letter from Annie Pozyck to her parents, 1945]

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Title	[Letter from Annie Pozyck to her parents, 1945]
Date	1945-05-15
Item creator's name	Pozyck, Annie Edith Sherrill
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Pozyck discusses her plan to leave the army and start a family with Louis as soon as war is over, and her plan to celebrate promotions and Jay's birthday.
Veteran's name	Pozyck, Annie Edith Sherrill
Veteran's biography	Annie Edith Sherrill Pozyck (1920-2007) of Concord, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. After her discharge, she continued her nursing career, retiring from the Salisbury, North Carolina, VA Hospital after over twenty-five years in the profession . Annie Edith Sherrill Pozyck was born in Concord, North Carolina, on 30 January 1920. After graduating from Concord High School in 1936 she went to work as nursing assistant at Concord Cabarrus Memorial Hospital. In August 1938, she went into nurses training for three years at Mercy Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. In November 1942, Pozyck was inducted into the Army Nurse Corp (ANC) as a second lieutenant and was based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The following spring she was sent to Stark General Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, and she married there in June. In summer of 1943 Pozyck was transferred to Seattle, Washington, and then on to Camp Stoneman, California. At Camp Stoneman, the nurses received overseas training and were shipped out to Australia in December 1943. There, Pozyck served briefly with the 133rd General Hospital in Sydney, preparing wounded soldiers for transport. In January 1944 Pozyck returned to the station hospital at Camp Stoneman." Later that year, Pozyck was assigned to the 73rd Field Hospital and went to Fort Ord for additional overseas training. In February 1945 she arrived in the Philippines, where she helped set up a hospital in the town of Tacloban. Pozyck remained in the Leyte, Philippines, until her husband was liberated from a prisoner of war camp in June 1945, whereupon she was transfered back to the U.S. Pozyck was discharged at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in November 1945 as a first lieutenant. After her discharge, Pozyck and her husband moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where she worked at Lawrence General Hospital. In December 1952, she and her sons relocated to Concord, North Carolina, and Pozyck began working again at the Concord Cabarrus Memorial Hospital. After two years, she was hired by the VA hospital in Salisbury, North Carolina, and worked there until her retirement in February 1980. Annie Pozyck died on 1 September 2007.
Place	Philippines
Type	text
Original format	correspondence
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0333 Annie Pozyck Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0333.4.041
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Full-text transcript	Dearest Mother and Daddy,"" I received your letter to-day that you wrote May 6th. Pretty quick service- eh? Yes, I guess Everett has moved, because I tried to get in touch with him but he wasn't at this place any longer. I just took time out for midnight chow, and then I made out the midnight reports on all of the wards, so now I'm back to my letter. Its just pouring down rain, and the sound of it on the tent just makes me want to snuggle up somewhere and sleep- Mmm. Yesterday I had a letter from Berryhill and she is in the Army. She went in Apr. 1st, and is station at Foster Gen. Hosp., Jackson, Miss. It was nice of Leon Lang to write you a note about Louis. I didn't know where he was. I still haven't received any of yours or Aunt Esther's packages, but I sure am anxiously awaiting them. Only four more nights of night duty and will be glad. It's really been a hectic 2 weeks, because I've had some very sick patients- most of them casualties. I keep wondering how much longer it will be until we hear something more from Louis. I'm getting so anxious to get some word directly from him. It's been so long. Within the last three days I've had two nice letters from Jack Hatcher. He was telling all about his course. In one letter to him I mentioned casually how nice it would be after the war, when he started practicing, for me to be his office nurse. And he took me seriously. So I'll have to write and tell him that I was only kidding. I intend to settle down to raising a family after I get out of this man's army. 1:30 A.M. It's still pouring down rain, and right now everything is quiet here on the ward. By the way, I don't know if I told you or not. Vivian got her promotion to 1st Lt. the same day I got mine. Jay's birthday is the 18th and Vivian and I were coming off N.D. the 20th- so we were going to celebrate his birthday and our promotions the day we got off nights. But he will be practically back to the states by that time, so I guess we celebrate by ourselves. I'll say good night for now. Glad both of you are feeling good. Tell everybody ""hello"" for me. Lots of love," Annie Edith
OCLC number	900816899

[Letter from Annie Pozyck to her parents, 1945]

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