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Title	[Three nurses at plane wreckage in Saipan, 1944]
Date	1944-09
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	Lucy Slade Libby (left), Dot Sheldon (right), and an unidentified ANC nurse stand on the wing of a bombed Japanese plane in Saipan" Mariana Islands, in September of 1944. All three women wear the ANC summer work uniform.
Veteran's name	Libby, Lucy Slade
Veteran's biography	Lucy Slade Libby (b. 1921) of Danville, Virginia, served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1942 to 1946 . Lucy Slade Libby (b. 1921) was born in Danville, Virginia, and raised on a tobacco farm in Blanch, North Carolina. After graduating from the Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone, North Carolina, Slade attended the Duke School of Nursing from 1939-1942." Libby joined the Army Nurse Corps in October 1942 as a second lieutenant and reported to a general hospital at Camp Davis in Wilmington, North Carolina. She remained there through March of 1944, when she was sent briefly to Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and then to Camp Blanding, Florida, to prepare for overseas duty. She served as a nurse supervisor with the 369th and 176th station hospitals in Saipan from September 1944 to the fall of 1945, when she became assistant chief nurse of the 204th general hospital in Guam. Libby returned to the United States early the next year and was discharged with the rank of captain in October 1946. She married Edwin Clark Libby after the war.
Place	Saipan
Type	image
Original format	photographs
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	WV0328 Lucy Slade Libby 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	WV0328.6.020
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	900813537

[Three nurses at plane wreckage in Saipan, 1944]

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