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Elizabeth Gloser DeSantis papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0440
Overview
The collection contains a small assortment of papers from Elizabeth Gloser DeSantis, who attended nursing school at Michael Reese Hospital in Gary, Indiana in 1938 and 1939, and later enlisted to serve in the 38th Evacuation Unit in 1942. With the 38th Evac, she served in Tunisia and Italy, recording a diary throughout her service. The collection consists of the original diary, a typed transcript of the diary, a photographic scrapbook, some loose photographs and a few other papers.
Dates:
1938 - 1945
Clarence O. Kuester, Jr., papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0134
Overview
550 items, primarily letters written to his family in Charlotte by Clarence O. Kuester, Jr., a member of the US Army 38th Evacuation Hospital Unit while stationed in North Africa and Italy.
Dates:
1891, 1941-1955, 1982-1993; 1942 - 1944
Raymond W. Whittier papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0382
Overview
Papers, scrapbook, photo album, photograph and moving images (transferred onto DVD) from Col. Raymond W. Whittier, of the 38th Evacuation Unit, from 1942 to 1946.
Dates:
1942 - 1946