Alice Doretta Lentz Letters

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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.
Where can I find more information?: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/315
What's in the full collection?: This collection consists of twenty-two personal letters written by Lentz to her family that describe her life as a nurse; which included receiving vaccinations and watching as German prisoners of war arrived at her base for unknown reasons. The letters also discuss news regarding her friends and her patients.
Full biography: Alice Doretta Lentz (1921-2009) was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 7 May 1921, and was the second child of Loula (Allen) and Herbert J.J. Lentz. Lentz served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps during World War II as a surgical nurse holding the rank of ensign. She was stationed at the United States Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After World War II , Lentz was employed at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Hospital in New York City for forty years before retiring to Seabring, Florida. She died on 26 December 2009.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Navy -- Navy Nurse Corps
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Letter from Doretta Lentz to parents; Lentz discussing receiving vaccinations; German prisoners of war arriving at her base; a letter from a friend in stationed in Germany describing the "advanced" nation; and being complimented by patients who think she has been in the service a long time.

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