Title	Josephine L. DePietro Papers
Date	1938-1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women Military nursing--United States--History
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Manuscript collection. Not digitized.
Veteran's name	DePietro, Josephine L.
Veteran's biography	Josephine L. "Tootie" Bufano DePietro was born on 12 April 1919 in New York, to Andrew and Lillian Bufano. After graduating from Mont Pleasant High School in Schenectady, New York in 1938, she began nursing school at the Schenectady Hospital Association's Training School for Nurses (now known as the Ellis Hospital School of Nursing), graduating in 1941 . By 1944, she had enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, and was first stationed at the Thomas H. England General Hospital in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Other postings included the Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York, and Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York . DePietro later married Salvatore Ridolfi, and died at age eighty-seven in New York City on 9 January 2006 .
Type	Collection
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0461 Josephine L. DePietro Papers, 1938-1945
Collection summary	This collection consists of twenty-eight letters written to and from DePietro's friends and family. The collection begins with the letters written by DePietro when she attended nursing school; the last letter in the collection is addressed to her parents and discusses news from family and provides updates on her activities. Most of the letters are written to her; there are letters from her significant other Sam, who was stationed with the Army Air Force at Bowman Field in Kentucky. There are also letters from a friend who was in the Navy Nurse Corps and another from the Army Nurse Corps, and letters from other friends, family, and a patient. The remainder of the collection includes a Valentines's Day card from Sam, two school annuals, one photograph, one Thanksgiving Day menu, and three postcards.
Finding aid link	http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=692
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Object ID	WV0461.0.000
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/

Josephine L. DePietro Papers

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