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Title	[Marjory Johnson outside living quarters, 1945]
Date	1945
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Medical Specialist Corps - PT
Item description	Marjory Johnson stands outside her living quarters at Mourmelon-le-Petit, France, in spring 1945. She is wearing the Army Nurse Corps olive drab skirt and khaki shirt and tie.
Veteran's name	Johnson, Marjory W.
Veteran's biography	Marjory W. Johnson (1922-2010), of Bunn, North Carolina, served as a physical therapist in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946 and later in civilian hospitals in North Carolina, Minnesota, and New York. From 1961 to 1985 she was a member of the physical therapy faculty at the University of North Carolina . Marjory W. Johnson grew up in Bunn, North Carolina. She studied physical education at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1943. After graduation, she went to one year of civilian physical therapy training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She also had one week of basic training at Fort Meade, Maryland." Johnson joined the Army Medical Specialist Corps as a second lieutenant in 1944. Her first assignment was at Woodrow Wilson Hospital in Staunton, Virginia, but in January 1945, she received overseas orders. She sailed from Fort Dix, New Jersey, to Le Havre, France, on the George Washington. Her unit, the 205th General Hospital, treated German prisoners in Mourmelon-le-Petit, France. In the summer of 1945, Johnson traveled to Marseilles, France, on route to the South Pacific, but the war ended and she was reassigned to Rouen, France. After a week in Rouen, Johnson secured an assignment in Bremerhaven, Germany, where her brother was stationed. She returned to the United States in February 1946 and was discharged at Fort Bragg . Johnson worked with polio patients for the next few years, first in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and then in Hibbing, Minnesota. She attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, on the GI Bill in 1948, but did not complete her master’s degree until 1964. Johnson worked in Rochester, New York, from 1948 until 1961. In September 1961, she accepted a teaching position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she stayed until retiring in May 1985.
Place	Mourmelon-le-Petit (France)
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	WV0111 Marjory Johnson 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	WV0111.6.002
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	900811548

[Marjory Johnson outside living quarters, 1945]

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