Marie M. Mason 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?: Most of this collection has been digitized. Some items have not beed digitized due to copyright or other logistical issues.
What's in the full collection?: March 2011 oral history transcript and scanned photographs.
Full biography: Marie M. Mason (b. 1916) served overseas in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Marie M. Mason was born in Swan Quarter, North Carolina in 1916. She entered nurses’ training at Park View hospital in Rocky Mount, North Carolina upon completing high school at the age of 16. After completing three years of training, she worked as a nurse before entering Campbell College (now Campbell University, near Raleigh, North Carolina) in 1939. She attended Campbell for two years before changing schools to Meredith College, in Raleigh, and then entering the service in 1943. Mason attended Army Nurse Corps training at Camp Davis in Holly Ridge, North Carolina, where she stayed from February to August of 1943 before being sent to Italy. Mason worked in a station hospital in Aversa, Italy (possibly the 262nd Station Hospital) for approximately two years until the end of World War II in Europe. She then spent a short time in the Philippines before returning to the United States in 1945.
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

: Marie Mason in field work uniform; Marie Mason poses in the Army Nurse Corps field work uniform and helmet, circa 1943.

: Oral history interview with Marie M. Mason; Marie M. Mason speaks of her early life, education, military service, and life after her service. Mason discusses her time at a station hospital in Italy, interactions with German prisoners of war, her nursing education before her service and her sociology and psychology education and career after her service. Mason also mentions incidents such as almost being hit by shrapnel during an air raid, seeing the Pope in Rome, and her younger brother's experiences serving in the Army Air Corps at the same time.

: Portrait of Marie Mason; Portrait of Marie Mason, circa 1943. She wears the Women Army Corp service uniform with first lieutenant rank insignia and 5th Army, Italy shoulder sleeve insignia. Photo taken at Lafayette Studio, Lexington, Kentucky.

: Portrait of Marie Mason; Portrait of Marie Mason, circa 1943. She wears the Women Army Corp service uniform with first lieutenant rank insignia and 5th Army, Italy shoulder sleeve insignia. Photo taken at Lafayette Studio, Lexington, Kentucky.

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