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Object Description
Title
[Army
Nurse
Corps
blue
cape
,
1942]
Date
1942
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
Army
Nurse
Corps
blue
cape
,
lined
in
maroon
wool
.
Gold
"
U.S.
"
officer's
insignia
on the
right
collar
and
caduceus
on the
left
collar
.
Worn
over
one-piece
brown
and
white
seersucker
field
dress
.
Cape
worn
by
Rachel
Brower
Twiddy
in
1942
and
1943
.
Veteran's name
Twiddy, Rachel H. Brower
Veteran's biography
Rachel
Brower
Twiddy
(1917-2010)
of
Liberty
,
North
Carolina
,
served
in the
Army
Nurse
Corps
(ANC)
at
Ford
Ord
,
California
, from
1942
until
the
fall
of
1943
.
Rachel
H
.
Brower
Twiddy
was
born
on
27
July
1917
. She
grew
up
in
Liberty
,
North
Carolina
, and
graduated
from
Liberty
High
School
in
1935
. She
went
to
Emergency
Hospital
and
Catholic
University
in
Washington
,
D.C.
, and
Johns
Hopkins
Hospital
in
Baltimore
,
Maryland
, for
three
years
of
nursing
school
.
Twiddy
worked
for
one
year
in a
Washington
hospital
, then
spent
several
years
in
private
duty
nursing
. In
1941
, she
moved
to
San
Francisco
,
California
, and
worked
at
Stanford
Hospital
.
Twiddy
joined
the
Army
Nurse
Corps
as a
second
lieutenant
, and in
February
1942
, she was
sent
to
Fort
Ord
,
California
,
where
she
worked
in the
skin
ward
. She
married
Charles
Twiddy
, an
army
warrant
officer
, in
April
1943
and was
discharged
from the
Army
Nurse
Corps
that
fall
,
after
becoming
pregnant
.
The
Twiddys
lived
in
California
until
1945
,
when
they
settled
in
Raleigh
,
North
Carolina
.
Charles
went
back
into the
army
a
few
years
later
, and the
family
moved
to
Texas
,
Hawaii
, and
Maryland
.
Around
1950
, he
took
a
civilian
job
at the
Pentagon
, and
Rachel
occasionally
worked
as a
nurse
while
they
lived
in
Washington
,
D.C
. The
Twiddys
moved
back
to
Liberty
in
1984
.
Rachel
Brower
Twiddy
died
on
19
February
,
2010
.
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
WV0133 Rachel Brower Twiddy Papers
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
WV0133.8.001
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
900817446
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