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Title	[African American army nurse Sammie M. Rice, circa 1943]
Date	1943
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States--Armed Forces--African Americans United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Army nurse Sammie M. Rice stands outside a residence wearing the ANC blue service uniform with garrison cap, circa 1943.
Veteran's name	Rice, Sammie
Veteran's biography	Sammie Mae Rice (1913-2006) was among the first African American nurses to serve in an overseas theater during World War II . Sammie Mae Rice (1913-2006) of Laurens, South Carolina, enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps on 24 July 1942. At the time of her induction Lt Rice was assistant superintendent of Gillespie hospital in Cordele Georgia She was sent to Fort Bragg, NC, and Camp Kilmer, NJ, until February 1943, when she left for the African theatre with the 25th Station Hospital. When her shipped docked in Morocco in mid-March 1943, she became one of the first African Americans to serve overseas, and certainly the first African American nurse from South Carolina sent to that theatre during WWII. After stops in Dakar and Freetown, Rice arrived in Liberia, where she working as a nurse in the Officers ward of the Army hospital. By November of 1943, she was in Northern Africa, and by January 1944 Lieutenant Rice had returned to the United States, where she was stationed at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Rice was discharged on 1 March 1946.
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	WV0257 Sammie M. Rice 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	WV0257.6.002
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	900812731

[African American army nurse Sammie M. Rice, circa 1943]

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