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[Army dietitian olive drab uniform, circa 1943]

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Title	[Army dietitian olive drab uniform, circa 1943]
Date	1943
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Medical Specialist Corps - Diet
Item description	U.S. Army hospital dietitian olive drab jacket and long skirt." In 1942 dietitians became part of the army's Medial Department and were eligible to wear standard army or army nurse uniforms. In 1943 a pair of caducei with the initials "HD" was added to the uniform, pinned to the blouse lapels. They are missing from this uniform, which was worn by Lucile Griffin Leonard from 1943 to 1945. The patch on the upper right sleeve of the jacket signifies service in the North African Theater of Operations, and the stripes on the lower right sleeve represent two years overseas service (each stripe represents six months.) On the sleeve not pictured is a laurel wreath patch, which is a "Distinguished Unit Citation" emblem awarded to units for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy.
Veteran's name	Leonard, Lucile Scott Griffin
Veteran's biography	Lucile “Lucy” Griffin Leonard (1920-2006) of Sanford, North Carolina, served as a hospital dietitian in Africa and Italy while in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1945, and later as a dietitian at UNCG and in N.C. public schools . Lucile “Lucy” Griffin Leonard was born 28 November 1920 and was raised in Sanford, North Carolina. She studied home economics and institution management at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), graduating in 1941. After her graduation, Leonard worked for the Dairy Council in Durham, North Carolina . Leonard enlisted in the army and became a hospital dietitian at Camp Butner, North Carolina, in September 1942. She was commissioned as a second lieutenant in March 1943 and went to training at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia. Leonard sailed on the SS Louis Pasteur in September 1943 to the 81st Station Hospital in Bizerte, Tunisia. In 1944, she moved to Naples, Italy, and later to Livorno,
Type	image
Original format	textiles
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0028 Lucile Griffin Leonard Papers
Collection summary	Military Papers, 1943-1946; Correspondence, 1943-1945; scrapbook.
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0028.8.001
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/
OCLC number	900817279

[Army dietitian olive drab uniform, circa 1943]

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