Carrie Radnik Collection
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- Army bivouac in New Guinea
- Picture of an army bivouac in New Guinea, as seen in 1943 or 1944. Soldiers set up tents and cots under palm trees. A servicewoman stands in the foreground with her back to the camera.
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- Carrie Radnik
- Carrie Gammel Radnik poses beside a building in the ANC beige off-duty dress and service cap, while stationed in New Guinea from 1943 to 1944.
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- Carrie Radnik and fellow ANC nurse
- Carrie Gammel Radnik (left) poses with a fellow ANC nurse, possibly Mary Murphy, on the steps of a building, circa 1943. Both women wear the ANC olive-drab service uniform with garrison cap.
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- Carrie Radnik at mess hall, New Guinea
- Carrie Gammel Radnik poses at the entrance of the mess hall of the 87th Station Hospital, in Doba Dura, New Guinea, in 1943. She wears a khaki shirt and slacks with drawstring ankles, a uniform probably only issued to nurses serving in the Pacific, and poses beside a sign identifying the building as the "New Guinea Delicacy House."
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- Carrie Radnik with doctor and patients
- Army nurse Carrie Gammel Radnik (right) stands with a doctor while visiting with three male patients in an overseas station hospital in the Pacific Theater, circa 1943.
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- Martin and Carrie Radnik
- Portrait of Carrie Stinson Gammel Radnik and her husband, Martin Radnik, both in uniform, taken in 1944. She wears the ANC olive-drab service uniform with service cap.
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- Oral history interview with Carrie G. Radnik
- Primarily documents Carrie Gammel Radnik's service in the Army Nurse Corps from 1942 to 1945. Pre-war topics include Radnik's high school education; the Depression; studying nursing at Touro Infirmary, New Orleans; and the attack on Pearl Harbor. She discusses her reasons for enlisting in the ANC, and why she did not initially tell her mother. Discussion of her first years in the service includes her general nursing work at Camp Livingston and adjusting to military life. She also mentions her unit's overseas training and her voyage from New York to Australia. " Of her time overseas, Radnik discusses the layout and typical activities of the 42nd General Hospital in Brisbane; arriving at New Guinea; being stationed near the front; her friends Mary Murphy and Janet Froome; reuniting with family and friends; using V-Mail; leisure activities and living conditions on the island; and meeting her husband, Martin. Radnik briefly describes her marriage, discharge, children, and post-service nursing career. The interview ends with a discussion of some of Radnik's personal photos.
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- Overseas hospital unit
- A group photo of the army doctors and nurses of an overseas hospital unit in the Pacific Theater in 1943 or 1944. The ANC nurses wear a variety of non-regulation uniforms.
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- Portrait of Carrie Radnik
- Portrait of Carrie Radnick, in the ANC olive-drab service uniform and service cap, taken in 1944.
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- Sign in Doba Dura, New Guinea
- Picture of a roadside sign in Doba Dura at Oro Bay, New Guinea, in 1943. The sign reads "Dobodura-Tokyo Road. 'There are many roads to Tokyo; we will neglect none of them.' Pres. Roosevelt."
