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First Negro Nurses Land in England

Content Provider	Library of Congress - Photographs
Spatial Coverage	England
Description	Accompanying caption reads: Twenty-four of the first contingent of Negro nurses assigned to the European Theater of Operations. Front row, left to right: Second Lieutenants Alice Simpson, Atlanta, Georgia, Vernice Eizer, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Catherine L. Harris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Captain Mary L. Petty, Chicago, Illinois, (Commanding), First Lieutenant Ida E. Smith, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Second Lieutenants Dorcas Taylor, Omaha, Nebraska and Estella Smith, Cincinnati, Ohio. Second row, left to right: Second Lieutenants Arlayne Hall, Los Angeles, California, Rubye Collins, Castonia, North Carolina, Dorothy Guy, Newark, New Jersey, Doretha Wadley, Cordele, Georgia, Catherine Randle, Galveston, Texas, and Lucille Scales, St. Louis, Missouri. Third row, left to right, Gussie Danials, Valdosta, Georgia, Julie James, Richmond, Virginia, Doris S. Heath, Cleburn, Texas, Gwendolyn Sykes, Goldsberg, North Carolina and Melba Franklin, Sugartown, South Carolina. Fourth row, left to right: Second Lieutenants Sarah Johnson, Greensboro, North Carolina, Elizabeth L. Williams, Memphis, Tennessee, Anna Collins, Portsmouth, Virginia, Margaret Lipscomb, Opelika, Alabama and Marion Ridgely, Washington, D.C.
File Format	JPG / JPEG
Language	English
Part of Series	Miscellaneous Items in High Demand
Requires	HTML5 supported browser
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Nurses--1940-1950.
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	African Americans--Military service--1940-1950.
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Women--Military service--England--1940-1950.
Content Type	Image
Resource Type	Photograph

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