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Title	[Dorothy Baker at Women in Military Service for America Memorial, 1997]
Date	1997-10-19
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Army--Women
Era	Gulf War (1990-2000)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Dorothy Baker at Women in Military Service for America Memorial the day following its dedication, October 19, 1997.
Veteran's name	Baker, Dorothy Ahlswede
Veteran's biography	Dorothy Ahlswede Baker (1923-2015) participated in the Cadet Nurse Corps program then served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1947. Dorothy Ahlswede Baker was born in 1923 and grew up in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. She attended Bellin College of Nursing in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and joined the Cadet Nurse Corps while there. After graduation, she worked at the Sturgeon Bay Hospital for several months. Baker enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps and reported to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, for basic training in February 1945. She was assigned briefly to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, before transferring to Charleston, South Carolina, to serve on the United States Army hospital ship Wisteria, which transported German prisoners of war to Europe and returned sick and wounded American soldiers to the United States. In 1946 Baker spent several months chaperoning war brides on troop trains from Camp Kilmore, New Jersey. She was also assigned to Fort Lewis, Washington, and then Fort Lawton, Washington, where she served aboard a hospital ship transporting soldiers from the Pacific Theatre. She was discharged from the U.S. Army in the summer 1947 upon marriage to Horace Baker, a doctor serving aboard the same ship. The Bakers resided in North Carolina, eventually settling in Southern Pines.
Place	Washington (D.C.)
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	WV0385 Dorothy Baker 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	WV0385.6.004
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	900813846

[Dorothy Baker at Women in Military Service for America Memorial, 1997]

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