The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Deaths: Black Nurse Dorothea Anderson
DOROTHEA ANDERSON (1915-2013)
One of the very few black nurses to serve in the segregated American forces during World War II. Died August 19th in Chicago.
Grew up in Georgia and studied nursing before joining the Army in 1942. Most black nurses at the time took care of black military personnel.
However, Mrs. Anderson was one of fewer than 500 nurses deployed overseas and took care of German prisoners.
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