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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	1945-06-03
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 continues to hope for a letter from Louis, hopes he won't be unhappy to hear she is abroad, and continues to listen to the radio for entertainment. She notes that there are 840 patients in their 400-capacity hospital and encloses a bulletin from her church.
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	WV0333.4.049
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 yesterday that you wrote May 24th, and of course I was glad to hear from you. But every day now I keep looking for a letter from Louis. I just wonder if he's back in the States yet. I hope so, but I know he will be disappointed and unhappy to find that I'm over here. I sure wish I could be there to see my darling when he returns. I was off duty at 2 P.M. and I went out to the hospital to see Vivian. She is doing fine and hopes to be out in a couple of days. Sure hope so, because I've really missed her. Being here in the tent all by myself is pretty lonely. But I have my radio, and you know me- as long as I have that, I'm as contented as I can be. During the week they only have programs 6:30-8:30 A.M., 11 A.M.-1 P.M., and from 4 P.M. to 11 P.M., and one Sunday from 11 A.M-11 P.M. So I enjoy it mostly in the evening. Nancy Archibald sure had a ""snazzy"" wedding, didn't she? There isn't much news -nothing exciting- besides the War. We are still as busy as ever here at the hospital- casualties, etc. Last night we had 840 patients and we are supposed to be only a 400 bed hospital. So you can just imagine what we are up against. This is only one of our church bulletins I'm enclosing. The picture on the front is our Chapel. It's made of palm leaves and bamboo poles. It's very quaint. I went to Church this morning. Well, I guess this is all for now, so I'll say good night now. Lots of love," Annie Edith " [Enclosure]
OCLC number	900816796

[Letter from Annie Pozyck to her parents, 1945]

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