Title	[Two army nurses, circa 1942]
Date	1942
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	Rachel Brower Twiddy and a fellow army nurse pose among agave plants in Carmel, California, circa 1942. Twiddy is still wearing the navy blue army nurse uniform with blue 1st pattern service cap and wool overcoat. Her friend wears the new olive drab service uniform and 2nd pattern service cap.
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.
Place	Carmel (Calif.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
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/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	WV0133.6.002
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	900811135

[Two army nurses, circa 1942]

Page/Item Description