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Title	[Army Nurse Corps field uniform, 1944]
Date	1944
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	Olive drab army nurse winter field uniform. Includes jacket that reaches to hips, with six exposed front buttons and four pockets, and trousers. Worn by Alice C. Boehret in 1944 and 1945.
Veteran's name	Boehret, Alice Crowther
Veteran's biography	Alice C. Boehret (1919-2008) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1942 until 1946. She later taught at Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina Greensboro), serving as chair of the Department of Nursing from 1960 to 1966. Alice Crowther Boehret was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 2, 1919, and grew up in Philadelphia and Wildwood, New Jersey. Boehret graduated Germantown High School in 1937, then entered nursing training at Jefferson Medical College Hospital School of Nursing. She finished in 1941 and worked as a graduate nurse until she passed the state boards in 1942. In early 1942, Boehret joined the Army Nurse Corps and was sent to Fort Story, Virginia, where she pent two years in the station hospital. In February 1944, she was transferred briefly to the 74th General Hospital at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and then to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where the 74th embarked for England aboard the RMS Queen Mary. Boehret became sick during the voyage and spent her first few weeks in England hospitalized. In May she joined the 74th in Hoylake and later in Wraxhall, where a hospital had been set up in Tyntesfield Park. In June 1945, Boehret went with the unit to France, where she remained until November 1945 when she returned to Camp Butler, Pennsylvania. Boehret was discharged as a first lieutenant in May 1946 . Boehret attended the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina Greensboro) on the GI Bill and received a bachelor’s degree in French in 1950. She returned to Philadelphia to teach at Albert Einstein Hospital. In 1957, Boehret accepted a position at the Woman’s College in the newly formed Deparment of Nursing; she became chairman of the department in 1960. Boehret left the school in 1966 to pursue a doctorate degree in nursing at Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1972. She then helped establish the baccalaureate nursing program at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Boehret retired from Rutgers in 1984. She died 20 November, 2008.
Type	image
Original format	textiles
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	WV0166 Alice C. Boehret Papers
Collection summary	Oral History Interview; Army Nurse Corps 1942-1946 Memoir, n.d.; Queen Mary Cabin Assignment Card, March 1, 1944; Military Papers; Photograph Album; Dissertation, Analysis of Four Concepts of Nursing Care, 1972; Newspaper Clipping; 3rd Service Command Patch; Work Uniform, HBT; Wool Liners for Jackets and Pants; Scarf/Bandana; Boots
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0166.8.001
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	900817557

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