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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
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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
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