Title	Wilma Leona Jackson Uniforms, 1954-1958
Date	1954-1958
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--Navy Nurse Corps
Item description	Manuscript collection. Not yet digitized.
Veteran's name	Jackson, Wilma Leona
Veteran's biography	Wilma Leona Jackson was born in Union, Ohio, in 1909. She graduated from Butler Centralized School in Vandalia in 1927 and earned her nursing degree in 1930 at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. She joined the Navy Nurse Corps in July 1936 and served at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia until 1939, when she transferred to the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. The following year, she was sent overseas to the Naval Hospital at Guam. When the Japanese captured the island in December 1941, Jackson, along with three other navy nurses and all other U.S. military personnel, was taken prisoner. Jackson was freed in an exchange of prisoners in August 1942. She was assigned to the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) in Washington, D.C., until 1944, when she was promoted to lieutenant and returned to Guam. There, she served as the Senior Nurse Corps Officer at Fleet Hospital #103 until December 1945 . After WWII, Jackson served at hospitals in Washington D.C., Oakland, California, and Portsmouth, Virginia. She returned to school in 1950 and graduated with degrees in nursing administration from Columbia University in 1952. In 1954, Jackson was appointed third director of the Navy Nurse Corps. She retired in 1958 as a Captain and returned to Ohio, where she died on 23 March 1998. Jackson was a recipient of the American Defense Service Medal, the Asiatic Victory Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and a Commendation Ribbon.
Type	Collection
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0358 Wilma Leona Jackson Uniform Collection, 1954 - 1958
Collection summary	This collection consists of navy uniforms and uniform accessories from the mid-1950s.
Finding aid link	https://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=303
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Additional rights information	COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0358.0.000
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/

Wilma Leona Jackson Uniforms, 1954-1958

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