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Title	[Portrait of Mary Kathryn Hampton, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
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 Mary Kay Hampton, circa 1944, in the ANC blue service uniform with matching garrison cap. On her shoulder is the patch of the 4th Army Service Command.
Veteran's name	Hampton, Mary Kathryn
Veteran's biography	Mary Kay Hampton (b. 1920) of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps in France, Belgium, and Germany during World War II. Following the war she continued her career in nursing administration and education, primarily in North Carolina . Mary Kathryn Hampton of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was born on 30 April 1920. She graduated from RJ Reynolds High School in 1937 and then entered North Carolina Baptist Hospital nurses’ training program in September 1938. She worked as a private duty nurse after graduation in 1941." Hampton joined the Army Nurse Corps in June 1942 and was stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia. In July 1943 she attended overseas training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, and then in Elkins, West Virginia. Hampton departed Fort Dix, New Jersey, aboard the SS <emph>Aquitania</emph> in November 1943 with other members of the 44th Evacuation Hospital. They arrived in Scotland and traveled to Maidenhead, England, where Hampton attended additional training for seven months, in preparation for D-Day." Hampton crossed the English Channel on a landing craft and landed at Omaha Beach on 19 June 1944. The unit followed the front from Normandy to Malmedy, Belgium, during the fall of 1944. During the Battle of the Bulge, Hampton and the 44th Evac moved to Spa and Huy, Belgium, then onto Germany in February 1945. There they supported troops following the battle for Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen and the liberation of Nordhausen concentration camp. Following VE Day, Hampton spent time in France and Germany before returning home to North Carolina in October 1945 . Hampton studied nursing and worked at Duke University after the war. She later completed her master’s degree in nursing education at Columbia University and taught nursing at UNCG. During her long career in nursing, Hampton also worked at a VA Hospital in Texas, at North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem and at various hospitals in Wilmington.
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	WV0335 Mary Kathryn Hampton 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	WV0335.6.001
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	900814490

[Portrait of Mary Kathryn Hampton, circa 1944]

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