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Title	[Army bivouac in New Guinea, circa 1943]
Date	1943
Date approximate?	yes
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	Picture of an army bivouac in New Guinea, as seen in 1943 or 1944. Soldiers set up tents and cots under palm trees. A servicewoman stands in the foreground with her back to the camera.
Veteran's name	Radnik, Carrie Stinson Gammel
Veteran's biography	Carrie Stinson Gammel Radnik (1919-2012) of Montrose, Arkansas, served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1942 to 1945 . Carrie G. Radnik (1919-2012) was born in Montrose, Arkansas. She graduated from Lake Village High School in 1937 and then completed the three-year nurse training program at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. She remained there working as a nurse for a year . Radnik joined the Army Nurse Corps in May of 1942 and was assigned to the wards at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. In May 1943 she received orders overseas and was sent to Orange, New Jersey, for training. She set sail from New York aboard the Henry Gibbons and arrived in Brisbane, Australia, in June of 1943. Radnick was assigned to the 42nd General Hospital in Bribane for three months, then was sent to the 87th Station Hospital in Doba Dura, New Guinea until March 1944. After her return stateside she was stationed in Columbia, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. In November of 1944 she married Martin Radnik, and in March of 1945 she was discharged due to pregnancy. After their service, Radnik and her husband lived in Chicago and raised four children. Radnik returned to nursing in the early 1960s. In the mid-1990s the Radniks settled in Greensboro. Radnik died 14 March 2012 at the age of 92.
Place	New Guinea
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	WV0269 Carrie Radnik Collection, 1942-1945, 2003
Collection summary	Collection includes a 2003 oral history interview and photographs from Radnik's World War II service with the Army Nurse Corps in Louisiana and in Australia and New Guinea.
Series/grouping	2: Photographs, 1943-1944
Box	1
Folder	3: Photographs
Finding aid link	https://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=461
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	WV0269.6.009
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	900812467

[Army bivouac in New Guinea, circa 1943]

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