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Title	[Shirley Van Brakle in hospital uniform, 1943]
Date	1943
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	Shirley Van Brakle, in the ANC seersucker hospital uniform, stands beside a stair railing at Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York, in 1943.
Veteran's name	Van Brakle, Shirley
Veteran's biography	Shirley Van Brakle served overseas while a member of the Army Nurse Corps from 1943 to 1946 . Shirley Van Brakle enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps in 1943 and attended basic training at Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York. She was then stationed at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, before being sent to England in April 1944 with the 160th General Hospital. She remained overseas through at least November 1945 and was discharged in 1946.
Place	Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
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	WV0221 Shirley Van Brakle 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	WV0221.6.018
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	900812038

[Shirley Van Brakle in hospital uniform, 1943]

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