Margaret B. Mizelle Letters, PC.1919

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Margaret B. Mizelle Letters, PC.1919

Abstract

Margaret B. Mizelle served as a 2nd lieutenant with the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. While stationed with the 38th Evacuation Hospital in England, Africa, and Italy, she wrote letters to her mother concerning articles of clothing, cosmetics, or food that Lt. Mizelle wished sent to her from home. Occasionally the letters contain descriptions of life in the field

Descriptive Summary

Title
Margaret B. Mizelle Letters
Call Number
PC.1919
Creator
Margaret B. Mizelle
Date
1942-1944
Language
English
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Margaret B. Mizelle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Mizelle of Route 2, Windsor, N.C., was born June 28, 1918, graduated from Windsor High School in 1936, and subsequently graduated as a registered nurse from the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, Charlotte, N.C. Shortly after the United States entered World War II, Ms. Mizelle volunteered for service in the Army Nurse Corps on April 24, 1942. Commissioned a 2nd lieutenant, she was assigned to duty with the 38th Evacuation Hospital, then at Fort Bragg, N.C., which shipped overseas to England in August. After a quarter year in England, the 38th Evacuation Hospital was sent in November, 1942, to serve on the front in Northwest Africa, Northeast Africa, and North Africa for the next ten months. From here the hospital was shipped to Italy in September, 1943. Lt. Mizelle was reassigned duties in the continental United States, returning in February, 1945. She was demobilized on January 25, 1946.

    The letters in this collection date from July 23, 1942, to December 28, 1944, and were, all but two of them, written while Lt. Mizelle was on duty overseas. They were addressed for the most part to Mrs. Mizelle at Windsor, and frequently are concerned with articles of clothing, cosmetics, or food that Lt. Mizelle wished sent to her from home. Occasionally the letters contain descriptions of life in the field (Dec. 16, 1942; Oct. 5 and 27, 1943; Jan. 6, Aug. 30, and Nov. 7, 18, and 24, 1944), or efforts to celebrate Christmas at the front in the evacuation hospital (Dec. 29, 1943, and Dec. 23 and 28, 1944). There are no letters dating from 1945 or 1946 in the collection.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 38th
  2. United States. Army Nurse Corps
  3. Nurses
  4. Military hospitals
  5. Christmas
  6. World War, 1939-1945
  7. Women
  8. Bertie County (N.C.)
  9. Africa
  10. Italy
  11. Acquisitions Information

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