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Title	[Chief station nurse "Salty" Miriam Altee, 1946-1947]
Date	1946-1947
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946) Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Navy--Navy Nurse Corps
Veteran's name	Rubin, Jeanne Grushinski
Veteran's biography	Jeanne Grushinski Rubin (1918-2015) served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1942 to 1948 and in the U.S. Navy Reserve Nurse Corps from 1959 to 1978. Jeanne Grushinski Rubin was born 17 April 1918 in Stirling, New Jersey. She graduated from Morristown High School in 1936, and began classes at Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing in New York in 1937, graduating in 1940. After the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941, Rubin decided to join the United States Navy Nurse Corps. For six months, beginning in November 1942, she trained at U.S. Navy Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in May 1943 she was assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital Pensacola, Florida, where she was commissioned lieutenant junior grade. In July 1944, Rubin, along with two other navy nurses, was assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital San Leandro, California, where they were tasked with helping to prepare the hospital for wounded military personnel from the Pacific. Rubin received orders to Fleet Hospital 116 in Okinawa, Japan in March 1946. She remained there until May 1946, when she received another set of orders to U.S. Navy Dispensary Saipan in the Mariana Islands. Part of her duties included treating wounded U.S. military, as well as Japanese prisoners of war. While overseas she was promoted to lieutenant senior grade. In May 1947, Rubin was reassigned to Brooklyn Naval Hospital in New York, where she worked until April 1948 when she married and resign her commission in the Navy Nurse Corps. She remained a part of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps Reserve, and returned to work at Bellevue Hospital as a civilian. Rubin retired from the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps Reserve in 1978 as a captain. She passed away on 5 November 2015.
Place	Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands)
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	WV0570 Jeanne Grushinski Rubin Papers
Collection summary	August 2014 Oral History Interview; Navy Nurse Corps dress uniform (jacket, skirt, white shirt, tie), overcoat, top coat, copies of photographs, pin. Additional uniforms (not Navy Nurse Corps): Navy Winter Blue service women’s uniform shirt with enlisted electrician mate rating patch and 3 service stripes on left sleeve and U.S.S. Holland patch on right sleeve, date unknown; Chief Petty Officer (CPO) service dress uniform (jacket and skirt) with 3 gold service stripes, date unknown.
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	WV0570.6.007
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	907985132

[Chief station nurse "Salty" Miriam Altee, 1946-1947]

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