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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.
Type	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
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	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

[Janet Froome prepares to travel, circa 1943.]

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