Jean Comins Mitchell (1922-2016), of Kingston, New York, was a dietitian in the Army Medical Corps from 1943 to 1945.
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16 March 1999 oral history transcript; Directory of Army Officers Third Service Command McGuire General Hospital Richmond Virginia 1945; Army Nurses Basic Training Program Booklet; Newspaper Articles 1939-43 including an article of Jean while attending Women's College,High Point Enterprise 1961; photograph of Jean taken outside at Women's College outside Spencer Dorm in 1943; Various photographs of Jean in uniform at Fort Meade; Walter Reed and in Deschon, PA (1943-1944).
Jean Comins Mitchell (1922-2016) of Kingston, New York, was a dietitian in the Army Specialist Medical Corps from 1943 to 1945. Jean Comins Mitchell was born in Kingston, New York, and graduated from high school in New Bern, North Carolina. She attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1939 to 1943 and received her degree in food and institution management. After graduation she interned at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. Mitchell enlisted in 1943 as a member of the Army Medical Corps. She went through basic training at Fort Meade, Maryland, and was then stationed at Valley Forge Army Hospital in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, as a dietitian. In late 1943 she was transferred to Deshon Army Hospital in Butler, Pennsylvania, and in 1944 was sent to McGuire Army Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, where she remained until May 1945. Mitchell was transferred back to Walter Reed Army Hospital until the end of the war in 1945. In September of 1945, Mitchell married and moved to Martinsville, Virginia. She worked for a year as a dietitian at a hospital in Virginia. After her children were grown she ran her own catering service.
Women's History Military Schools and Colleges
Army -- Army Medical Specialist Corps - Diet
World War II era (1940-1946)
World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
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