[Carrie Radnik, circa 1943]
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Title |
[Carrie Radnik, circa 1943] |
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Date |
1943 |
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Date approximate? |
yes |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Army--Army Nurse Corps |
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Item description |
Carrie Gammel Radnik poses beside a building in the ANC beige off-duty dress and service cap, while stationed in New Guinea from 1943 to 1944. |
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Veteran's name |
Radnik, Carrie Stinson Gammel |
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Veteran's biography |
Carrie Stinson Gammel Radnik (1919-2012) of Montrose, Arkansas, served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1942 to 1945 .
Carrie G. Radnik (1919-2012) was born in Montrose, Arkansas. She graduated from Lake Village High School in 1937 and then completed the three-year nurse training program at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. She remained there working as a nurse for a year .
Radnik joined the Army Nurse Corps in May of 1942 and was assigned to the wards at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. In May 1943 she received orders overseas and was sent to Orange, New Jersey, for training. She set sail from New York aboard the Henry Gibbons and arrived in Brisbane, Australia, in June of 1943. Radnick was assigned to the 42nd General Hospital in Bribane for three months, then was sent to the 87th Station Hospital in Doba Dura, New Guinea until March 1944. After her return stateside she was stationed in Columbia, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. In November of 1944 she married Martin Radnik, and in March of 1945 she was discharged due to pregnancy.
After their service, Radnik and her husband lived in Chicago and raised four children. Radnik returned to nursing in the early 1960s. In the mid-1990s the Radniks settled in Greensboro. Radnik died 14 March 2012 at the age of 92. |
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Place |
New Guinea |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0269 Carrie Radnik Collection, 1942-1945, 2003 |
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Collection summary |
Collection includes a 2003 oral history interview and photographs from Radnik's World War II service with the Army Nurse Corps in Louisiana and in Australia and New Guinea. |
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Series/grouping |
2: Photographs, 1943-1944 |
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Box |
1 |
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Folder |
3: Photographs |
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Finding aid link |
https://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=461 |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse. |
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Object ID |
WV0269.6.004 |
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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/ |
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OCLC number |
900812454 |
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