[Nurses quarters in Guam, 1945]
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Title |
[Nurses quarters in Guam, 1945] |
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Date |
1945-12 |
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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 |
A row of temporary buildings that served as the nurses quarters of the 204th General Hospital in Guam, as seen in December 1945. |
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Veteran's name |
Libby, Lucy Slade |
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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. |
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Place |
Guam |
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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 |
WV0328 Lucy Slade Libby Papers |
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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 |
WV0328.6.025 |
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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 |
900813512 |
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