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[Lucile Griffin Leonard, circa 1944]

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Title	[Lucile Griffin Leonard, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Medical Specialist Corps - Diet
Item description	Portrait of Army dietitian Lucile Griffin Leonard, 1943-1945.
Veteran's name	Leonard, Lucile Scott Griffin
Veteran's biography	Lucile “Lucy” Griffin Leonard (1920-2006) of Sanford, North Carolina, served as a hospital dietitian in Africa and Italy while in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1945, and later as a dietitian at UNCG and in N.C. public schools . Lucile “Lucy” Griffin Leonard was born 28 November 1920 and was raised in Sanford, North Carolina. She studied home economics and institution management at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), graduating in 1941. After her graduation, Leonard worked for the Dairy Council in Durham, North Carolina . Leonard enlisted in the army and became a hospital dietitian at Camp Butner, North Carolina, in September 1942. She was commissioned as a second lieutenant in March 1943 and went to training at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia. Leonard sailed on the SS Louis Pasteur in September 1943 to the 81st Station Hospital in Bizerte, Tunisia. In 1944, she moved to Naples, Italy, and later to Livorno,
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	WV0028 Lucile Griffin Leonard Papers
Collection summary	Military Papers, 1943-1946; Correspondence, 1943-1945; scrapbook.
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	WV0028.6.001
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	900810513

[Lucile Griffin Leonard, circa 1944]

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