Title	[Russell and Veronica Eustice, 1946]
Date	1946
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	Portrait of Russell and Veronica Dabrowski Eustice, both in army uniforms, taken in Germany in 1946. Veronica wears the ANC European Theatre (ETO) short-waist "Ike" battle jacket, drab "pink" skirt, and garrison cap.
Veteran's name	Eustice, Veronica Dabrowski
Veteran's biography	Veronica “Ronnie” Dabrowski Eustice (b. 1923) of Brooklyn, New York, served with the Army Nurse Corps from May 1945 to July 1946, and in 1960 resumed her nursing career in the private sector . Veronica “Ronnie” Dabrowski Eustice was born on 7 May 1923 in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish parents. She graduated from the Girls High School and then attended nursing school at Saint Catherine’s Hospital in Brooklyn from 1941 to 1944." Eustice did private duty nursing for several months before joining the Army Nurse Corps on 24 May 1945. After completing basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, she became head nurse of three wards in the orthopedic unit at the Fort Dix hospital. Eustice received overseas training at Fort Jackson, near Columbia, South Carolina, and departed Fort Kilmer, New Jersey, bound for Le Havre, France, in February 1946. Eustice served in the 115th General Hospital (later the 386th Station Hospital) as part of the occupation forces in Kassel, Germany . On 14 March 1946 Veronica Dabrowski Eustice married Russell Eustice in Germany. She was discharged in May 1946 as a second lieutenant, and moved to Hackensack, New Jersey, with her husband. She returned to nursing in the 1960s and retired to North Carolina.
Place	Germany
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0274 Veronica Eustice Papers
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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.
Object ID	WV0274.6.001
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	900813186

[Russell and Veronica Eustice, 1946]

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