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it: freiba pattcrson, one of first NURSES TO GO INTO PACIFIC, A LOCAL GIRL, RECEIVES HONORABLE DISCHARGE; ...Friends will be interested tothe Johns Hopkfns Medical Unitknow that Miss Frieda Patterson, until yesterday, First Lieutenant Frieda Patterson, has received her formal discharge from the United States Army with which she has been associated as a nurse in the Red Cross division since January 1942.She left today for New York where she goes to spend a short time and get a much deserved rest after over three years of continuous work with the army which has carried her to some of the most remote places in the world and around the entire world.She is now wearing the Eagle badge which was awarded her for such distinguished service to the armed forces during the long and bloody conflict in which she participated in the Pacific arid later back here in connection with her work at Finney General Hospital.Entering the service in January 1942 at Fort Dix, New York, following the Jap attack in December 1941, Lt. Patterson was among the first American contingent? to land in the island wastes of the Pacific. She went to the isles of Tonga where she was with the first hospital unit to be established there. After remaining at that lonely placet for about a year her unit was moved to the Fiji Islands. Later she joinedgoing to India and was for some stationed along the famous Ledo road. Her journey into India and that area covered many points of. interest, and places vitally connected with the war against the Japanese. She came back to the states some months ago, having traveled by ship and plane around the world and having had experienced and observations which read like fiction.” Her experiences have been most vivid, interesting and times most harrowing.Returning to Thcmasville intApril of this year, she took only a short rest before going to work at Finney General Hospital. She is now going to rest up a while.Her services have been most outstanding and her efforts to relieve suffering among the boys of this country, casualties of the fanatical Japs in a most primitive land, have been such as to earn for her the everlasting love of those whom she ‘ nursed back to healthf and the commendation of her native land.9She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Patterson of this city, and she has numbers of friends, not only here, but wherever she has been throughout the world, who will remember her for herdevotion to duty and her great sacrifice. 1a ifivAvysT/tnatvif rm ima
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Sat, Oct 06, 1945
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