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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
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.
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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
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