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[Letter from Sammie M. Rice to Estelle Rice, 1943]

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Title	[Letter from Sammie M. Rice to Estelle Rice, 1943]
Date	1943-03-14
Item creator's name	Rice, Sammie
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States--Armed Forces--African Americans United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Rice, now in Africa, tells of her visits to Casablanca, Dakar, and Freetown on her way to her latest destination. She discusses money matters, and that she had been Camp Kilmer, N.J., before departing the States.
Veteran's name	Rice, Sammie
Veteran's biography	Sammie Mae Rice (1913-2006) was among the first African American nurses to serve in an overseas theater during World War II . Sammie Mae Rice (1913-2006) of Laurens, South Carolina, enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps on 24 July 1942. At the time of her induction Lt Rice was assistant superintendent of Gillespie hospital in Cordele Georgia She was sent to Fort Bragg, NC, and Camp Kilmer, NJ, until February 1943, when she left for the African theatre with the 25th Station Hospital. When her shipped docked in Morocco in mid-March 1943, she became one of the first African Americans to serve overseas, and certainly the first African American nurse from South Carolina sent to that theatre during WWII. After stops in Dakar and Freetown, Rice arrived in Liberia, where she working as a nurse in the Officers ward of the Army hospital. By November of 1943, she was in Northern Africa, and by January 1944 Lieutenant Rice had returned to the United States, where she was stationed at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Rice was discharged on 1 March 1946.
Place	Africa
Type	text
Original format	correspondence
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0257 Sammie M. Rice 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	WV0257.4.009
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/
Full-text transcript	Dear Hun, I received all of your letters including the card. You know I was so happy to hear from you. Also I had a letter from Mrs. Cuyler and Briscoe. He is a Lt. now and is station [sic] out in Texas. You have worried about me I know but I am well and happy and we had a safe voyage across the Ocean. We left America Feb. 7 at 6:00 a.m. and arrived here Mar. 10, 1943. I enjoyed the trip very much. We stopped in Casablanca, Fr. Morocco for several days and were given shore leave. We went up town and to the American Red Cross Building for Soldiers. The Red Cross is doing a fine piece of work there. The officers gave a dance for us then. We enjoyed it very much. The city of Casablanca is very beautiful and the people there are friendly. Our next stop was Dakar, Fr. West Africa. We stayed there several days and was [sic] allowed to go ashore. We enjoyed ourselves there also. Then we went from there to Freetown, Br. W. Africa. We went ashore there also. The people in Freetown spoke English and used English money but in the other two towns they spoke French and used French money. We had a good time and enjoyed ourselves very much. Our next stop was our destination. Now so much for me. How are you and have you been ill? I have worried about you and wondered what you were doing. I am going to increase my allotment in the near future but will let you know definitely when to expect it. I am glad you started me a bank account. When you go to Florence put some in the Post Office and send some to Miss Mattie to bank for me there. The allotment you are getting now you can live off in the summer. When I wrote you from the states, I was in Camp Kilmer, N.J. only 3 miles from New Brunswick and 16 mi. from Princeton. I wanted to go over to see Mrs. Cuyler but we were restricted to the camp. We stayed there two weeks. Don't worry about me. I am doing fine. Remember me to every body [sic] and tell your school children hello. You can send me the paper and get one for yourself. You may see news about us. I wrote you from Dakar on March 3rd. Did you get it? also my cable gram? Please write soon. Keep your chin up. All my love, Hun " Don't bother about Kodak yet. Will write later concerning it.
OCLC number	900816712

[Letter from Sammie M. Rice to Estelle Rice, 1943]

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