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Title
[Annie
Pozyck
and
husband
Louis
Pozyck
,
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
Portrait
of
Annie
Sherrill
Pozyck
and her
husband
Louis
Pozyck
,
both
in
uniform
,
who
were
married
in
June
1943
.
Veteran's name
Pozyck, Annie Edith Sherrill
Veteran's biography
Annie
Edith
Sherrill
Pozyck
(1920-2007)
of
Concord
,
North
Carolina
,
served
in the
Army
Nurse
Corps
during
World
War
II
.
After
her
discharge
, she
continued
her
nursing
career
,
retiring
from the
Salisbury
,
North
Carolina
,
VA
Hospital
after
over
twenty-five
years
in the
profession
.
Annie
Edith
Sherrill
Pozyck
was
born
in
Concord
,
North
Carolina
, on
30
January
1920
.
After
graduating
from
Concord
High
School
in
1936
she
went
to
work
as
nursing
assistant
at
Concord
Cabarrus
Memorial
Hospital
. In
August
1938
, she
went
into
nurses
training
for
three
years
at
Mercy
Hospital
in
Charlotte
,
North
Carolina
.
In
November
1942
,
Pozyck
was
inducted
into the
Army
Nurse
Corp
(ANC)
as a
second
lieutenant
and was
based
in
Charlotte
,
North
Carolina
. The
following
spring
she was
sent
to
Stark
General
Hospital
in
Charleston
,
South
Carolina
, and she
married
there in
June
. In
summer
of
1943
Pozyck
was
transferred
to
Seattle
,
Washington
, and then on to
Camp
Stoneman
,
California
. At
Camp
Stoneman
, the
nurses
received
overseas
training
and were
shipped
out
to
Australia
in
December
1943
. There,
Pozyck
served
briefly
with the
133rd
General
Hospital
in
Sydney
,
preparing
wounded
soldiers
for
transport
. In
January
1944
Pozyck
returned
to the
station
hospital
at
Camp
Stoneman.
"
Later
that
year
,
Pozyck
was
assigned
to the
73rd
Field
Hospital
and
went
to
Fort
Ord
for
additional
overseas
training
. In
February
1945
she
arrived
in the
Philippines
,
where
she
helped
set
up
a
hospital
in the
town
of
Tacloban
.
Pozyck
remained
in the
Leyte
,
Philippines
,
until
her
husband
was
liberated
from a
prisoner
of
war
camp
in
June
1945
,
whereupon
she was
transfered
back
to the
U.S
.
Pozyck
was
discharged
at
Fort
Bragg
,
North
Carolina
, in
November
1945
as a
first
lieutenant
.
After
her
discharge
,
Pozyck
and her
husband
moved
to
Lawrence
,
Massachusetts
,
where
she
worked
at
Lawrence
General
Hospital
. In
December
1952
, she and her
sons
relocated
to
Concord
,
North
Carolina
, and
Pozyck
began
working
again
at the
Concord
Cabarrus
Memorial
Hospital
.
After
two
years
, she was
hired
by the
VA
hospital
in
Salisbury
,
North
Carolina
, and
worked
there
until
her
retirement
in
February
1980
.
Annie
Pozyck
died
on
1
September
2007
.
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
WV0333 Annie Pozyck Papers
Rights statement
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
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holder
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for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0333.6.002
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
900814283
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