Jamie Marshall Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Only a part of this collection has been digitized.
What's in the full collection?: 7 folders of personal correspondence 1943-1945; oil ration coupons, 1943; Houston Lighting and Power Comp. Employee documents for Henry Marshall; Newspaper article photocopy dated Friday, October 20,1944: an editorial from the Stars and Stripes titled" Don't Get Chummy with Jerry".
Full biography: Jamie Marshall served in Texas, England, France, Belgium, and Germany as a member of the Army Nurse Corps from 1943-1945. Jamie Marshall, wife of Henry E. Marshall of Houston, Texas, joined the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. She was stationed in the base hospital at Camp Bowie in Texas from the spring of 1943 through August 1943, when she was transferred to the 32nd General Hospital, which was staging for overseas duty at Camp Bowie. The following month, Marshall and the 32nd sailed for England, and were based in Gloucestershire until the summer of 1944. In August 1944, the 32nd General Hospital moved to Normandy, France, and in November to Belgium. The first half of 1945, Marshall was stationed with the 32nd in Germany.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Army -- Army Nurse Corps
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Letter from Jamie Marshall to her husband; Marshall, now in Belgium, is sick and in bed. She also mentions buying crystal to send home, books she has read, mail she's received, and the terrible weather she endured in Normandy. She returned to the U.S. later that year.

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