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Title	[Portrait of Nell Smith Lutz, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	A portrait of Nell Smith Lutz in a WAVES service dress blue uniform and officer's hat.
Veteran's name	Lutz, Nell Smith
Veteran's biography	Nell Smith Lutz (b. 1921) of Marianna, Florida, served in the supply corps in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1943 to 1945 . Nell Smith Lutz was born on 29 November 1921, in Dothan, Alabama, and was raised in Marianna, Florida. She graduated from high school in 1939 and attended Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University)" Immediately following her graduation from college, Lutz enlisted in the WAVES. In July 1943 was sent basic training at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Following basic she was sent to take supply and disbursing classes at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In January 1944 she was assigned to the supply corps of the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia, as an assistant disbursing officer. There she met and became engaged to Frank Lutz. She was then transferred to Glynco, Georgia, as a disbursing officer with independent duty. She married Frank Lutz in August of 1945 and on 29 November 1945, Lutz was discharged from the WAVES . After leaving the service, Lutz moved to Portsmouth to be with her husband, who was still on active duty. The couple raised three children.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0160 Nell Smith Lutz 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	WV0160.6.004
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	900811658

[Portrait of Nell Smith Lutz, circa 1944]

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