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Title
[Janet
Froome
prepares
to
travel
,
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 Nurse Corps
Item description
Janet
Froome
stands
with
other
service
people
preparing
to
travel
,
wearing
her
ANC
uniform
,
circa
1943
. Her
overnight
bag
and
helmet
are on her
right
,
while
her
gas
mask
is
on her
left
.
Veteran's name
Froome, Janet Hester
Veteran's biography
Janet
Hester
Froome
, of
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
,
served
in the
Army
Nurse
Corps
from
August
1941
until
December
1945
, and
continued
a
career
in
nursing
and
nursing
education
in
Indiana
,
Minnesota
, and
Ohio
.
Janet
Hester
Froome
was
raised
in the
Winton
Place
community
in
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
, and
graduated
from
Hughes
High
School
in
1926
. She
attended
Ohio
Wesleyan
University
in
Delaware
,
Ohio
, for
two
years
, and then
transferred
to the
Ball
Memorial
Hospital
School
of
Nursing
at
Ball
State
Teachers’
College
in
Muncie
,
Indiana
.
Froome
graduated
in
1936
and
returned
to
Cincinnati
to
teach
at the
Jewish
Hospital
School
of
Nursing.
" In
August
1941
,
Froome
joined
the
Army
Nurse
Corps
as a
second
lieutenant
. She
reported
to
duty
at
Billings
General
Hospital
at
Fort
Harrison
,
Indiana
, and in
February
1942
, she
received
overseas
orders
.
Froome
sailed
from
New
York
City
to
Melbourne
,
Australia
, and then was
assigned
to a
hospital
set
up
in
Nudgee
Junior
College
, a
Catholic
boy's
school
outside
Brisbane
.
After
a
year
, she was
transferred
to a
hospital
in
Rockhampton
,
Australia
. In
mid-1944
,
Froome
sailed
to a
hospital
in
Port
Moresby
,
New
Guinea
. She
soon
became
chief
nurse
at
another
hospital
in
Dobodura
,
New
Guinea
, and was
promoted
to
first
lieutenant
and then
captain
. In
December
1944
,
Froome
returned
to the
United
States
and was
assigned
to
Wakeman
General
Hospital
in
Indiana
,
where
she
took
care
of
returning
prisoners
of
war
and a
group
of
German
POWs
. She was
discharged
in
December
1945
.
Froome
continued
nursing
at
Jewish
Hospital
and in
Muncie
, and
earned
a
master’s
degree
from
Columbia
University
in
New
York
City
. She then
spent
one
year
at a
children’s
hospital
in
St
.
Paul
,
Minnesota
,
before
returning
to
Jewish
Hospital
as the
head
of the
nursing
school
.
Froome
later
taught
nursing
at the
University
of
Cincinnati
,
where
she
received
a
second
master’s
degree
.
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image
Original format
photographs
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
WV0120 Janet Froome Papers
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Object ID
WV0120.6.004
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
900811144
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