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Title
[Operating
room
staff
on
D-Day
,
1944]
Date
1944-06-06
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
Estelle
Garner
Ptaszynski
(left)
and
other
medical
staff
stand
above
a
patient
in an
operating
room
of the
305th
Station
Hospital
on
D-Day
,
June
6
,
1944
. The
nurses
are
wearing
the
brown
and
white
seersucker
field
hospital
uniform
.
Veteran's name
Ptaszynski, Estelle Garner
Veteran's biography
Estelle
Garner
Ptaszynski
(1917-2006)
of
Seagrove
,
North
Carolina
, a
member
of the
Army
Nurse
Corps
(ANC)
from
1943
to
1945
, also
served
as a
surgical
nurse
for
many
years
at
hospitals
in
Connecticut
and
North
Carolina
.
Estelle
Garner
Ptaszynski
was
born
on
7
December
,
1917
, in
Seagrove
,
North
Carolina
. She
attended
Elsie
Academy
in
Robbins
,
North
Carolina
, and
Campbell
College
in
Buies
Creek
,
North
Carolina
. She
graduated
from
nurse’s
training
at
Baptist
Hospital
in
Winston-Salem
,
North
Carolina
, in
1940
and
became
a
surgical
nurse
in the
hospital’s
operating
room
.
In
January
1943
Ptaszynski
joined
the
Army
Nurse
Corps
. She
spent
eight
months
at
Camp
Butner
near
Durham
,
North
Carolina
, and then
went
to
Fort
Bragg
in
North
Carolina
and
Fort
Kilmer
in
New
Jersey
for
overseas
training
.
Ptaszynski
sailed
to
England
on the
SS
Mauritania
with the
305th
Station
Hospital
in
September
1943
. She
spent
several
months
with the
hospital
on the
Longleat
Castle
estate
near
Warminster
,
England
,
before
moving
to
Oxford
for
one
month
.
Ptaszynski
moved
with the
hospital
to
Southampton
in the
spring
of
1944
and
remained
there
until
August
1945
. She
returned
to the
United
States
and was
discharged
from
Fort
Bragg
in
November
1945
.
Ptaszynski
met
her
husband
,
Ed
,
while
in the
service
. They
married
in
February
1946
and
moved
to
Connecticut
,
where
they
lived
for
twenty-nine
years
.
Ptaszynski
resumed
her
work
as a
surgical
nurse
when
her
children
reached
elementary
school
age
, and
continued
her
nursing
career
for
several
years
after
the
family
moved
back
to
North
Carolina
and
settled
in
Troy
.
Ptaszynski
died
in
2006
.
Place
Southampton
(England)
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Image type
Work 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
WV0033 Estelle Garner Ptaszynski Papers
Rights statement
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
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copyright
.
Contact
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for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0033.6.003
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
900810451
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