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| Title | [Letter from Annie Pozyck to her parents, 1945] |
| Date | 1945-02-09 |
| Item creator's name | Pozyck, Annie Edith Sherrill |
| 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 | Pozyck is serving with the surgical division of the 13th General Dispensary, which is in a former Filipino school house, and is sharing a house with a fellow nurse. She has begun to go out at night with Major Arn, and hopes that her husband will not mind. |
| Veteran's name | Pozyck, Annie Edith Sherrill |
| Veteran's biography |
Annie Edith Sherrill Pozyck (1920-2007) of Concord, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. After her discharge, she continued her nursing career, retiring from the Salisbury, North Carolina, VA Hospital after over twenty-five years in the profession . Annie Edith Sherrill Pozyck was born in Concord, North Carolina, on 30 January 1920. After graduating from Concord High School in 1936 she went to work as nursing assistant at Concord Cabarrus Memorial Hospital. In August 1938, she went into nurses training for three years at Mercy Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. In November 1942, Pozyck was inducted into the Army Nurse Corp (ANC) as a second lieutenant and was based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The following spring she was sent to Stark General Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, and she married there in June. In summer of 1943 Pozyck was transferred to Seattle, Washington, and then on to Camp Stoneman, California. At Camp Stoneman, the nurses received overseas training and were shipped out to Australia in December 1943. There, Pozyck served briefly with the 133rd General Hospital in Sydney, preparing wounded soldiers for transport. In January 1944 Pozyck returned to the station hospital at Camp Stoneman." Later that year, Pozyck was assigned to the 73rd Field Hospital and went to Fort Ord for additional overseas training. In February 1945 she arrived in the Philippines, where she helped set up a hospital in the town of Tacloban. Pozyck remained in the Leyte, Philippines, until her husband was liberated from a prisoner of war camp in June 1945, whereupon she was transfered back to the U.S. Pozyck was discharged at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in November 1945 as a first lieutenant. After her discharge, Pozyck and her husband moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where she worked at Lawrence General Hospital. In December 1952, she and her sons relocated to Concord, North Carolina, and Pozyck began working again at the Concord Cabarrus Memorial Hospital. After two years, she was hired by the VA hospital in Salisbury, North Carolina, and worked there until her retirement in February 1980. Annie Pozyck died on 1 September 2007. |
| Place | Philippines |
| 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 | WV0333 Annie Pozyck 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 | WV0333.4.012 |
| 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 |
Dearest Mother and Daddy,"" I have just come in from supper, so as I promised yesterday I'll write another episode. Maybe you might get both letters at the same time, I don't know. As I told you, we have moved to a different place, and I'm now on duty at the 13th General Dispensary- temporarily. It's a nice setup and right in ""town""(such as the town is). We are living in a large house and have a nice front room with two huge bay windows. No screens, of course, so we still have to use our mosquito netting at night. Vivian and I have a room together. We've only been here two days. I was telling you about seeing Maj. Arn. Well, I heard some of the officers at the dispensary talking about going out to a meeting near the 117th Sta. Hosp. where Maj. Arn is stationed. So you know me, I won't be outdone, and I asked them if I could go along. Well, I bounced out there in a weapons truck with them, and was it dusty. The wind had dried up, but last night it poured all night, and most of the day to-day, so now it's inches thick in mud again. Well, back to Col. Arn. Night before last he had come to see at the 133rd GH, and I was out on the ship that we came over on, having dinner. I'll tell you about that later. So when I got out to the hospital, Col. Arn was so glad to see me, and I was just as glad to see him. We posted each other on all of the gossip we knew about every one, and I was there for about 2 hours and we talked a blue streak. I also saw one of the enlisted men, but Charlie Walker was out. I hope to see him soon. Col. Arn gave me the first bottle of beer I've had since I left the States and was it good. It was so nice and cold, and it's very seldom we get anything cold to drink. Those are the things you miss so over here. Little things like a cool drink of water, a nice bathtub and warm water to wash in, and even a commode that flushes. Until we came to this house we had outdoor ""johnnies""- a twelve-holer and it was quite a distance from our tent. So we feel like we're in a mansion here. Of course it's one of the main streets and the traffic is terrible. Its so noisy we have to shout at each other here in the room. All of the vehicles are Army and heavy- big trucks, tractors, bulldozers, jeeps, everything. We are right on the street too. They have no sidewalks here. Lets see now, where was I? I get to rattling off so many things at a time, I guess this must sound awfully disconnected. Back to Maj. or rather Col. Arn. He's coming to take me out tomorrow night. You don't think Louis would mind do you? Hope not. There's so little to do. No shows nearby. No club to go to, and I get tired just staying in. So Col. Arn will have a jeep, and at least we can go for a ride. Don't think I'm stepping out on my darling, because I love him too much and none of these men mean anything to me except that I just enjoy talking to old friends. While I was telling you about the traffic they drive on the left side of the road, just like the Aussies. There's always a continual stream of cars. I'm enclosing some Jap invasion money. I don't know if you got the other money I sent or not, because I learned that we couldn't send Filipino money home for souvenirs after I mailed it. Maybe the censor took it out. They have no street lights here, so everywhere you go you carry a flashlight. At night though nurses can't go out, unless they are with someone who is armed. So we are well protected. Now to tell you about where I'm working. It is a school house taken over by the U.S. Army, and we have 3 dispensaries- Medical and Surgical, and Eye Ear Nose and Throat. Also in the same building we have a Pharmacy and Laboratory. It's a nice building. I'm working in the Surgical section, and everyone is so nice and friendly. So I'm very well satisfied here- as well as I could be under the circumstances. We work from 8-4:45, and have 1 hr. and 15 min for lunch. We live quite a ways from the Dispensary, so we have a driver just for the nurses. He picks us up in the morning and takes us to breakfast at 7:30. he waits for us to eat and then takes us to work. At 11:45 he picks us up, takes us to lunch and brings us back to our quarters. At 12:45 he comes back for us and takes us back to work. Then when we get off at 4:45 he brings us home, and picks us up at 5:45 and takes us to dinner and brings us home. So we really have a nice deal don't you think. Of course all this riding is done in a truck. This afternoon one of the other nurses and I went over to our headquarters to see about mail. I had a V-Mail from Furchess and that's all since the 15 letters I got last Sunday. Hope our mail comes through soon. Well, I guess you're about tired of reading and I've about got writers cramp, so even though I have a lot more to say, I'll say good-night for now. Hope you are both well. Lots of love, Annie Edith " P.S. Still forgot to tell you about the trip to the ship. Will tell you later. |
| OCLC number | 900816727 |
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