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Army nurse Lt. Anne Wojcik and Pfc. Cecil Fleming aboard a train, Van Nuys, 1944

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Title: Army nurse Lt. Anne Wojcik and Pfc. Cecil Fleming aboard a train, Van Nuys, 1944
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa May 5, 1944]
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Lt. Anne Wojcik kissing Pfc. Cecil Fleming on the cheek goodbye as he boards a train leaving Birmingham General Hospital. Pfc. Fleming was injured in an explosion in Persia and was treated at the Army hospital.
This photograph appears with the article "Atlantic War Theater Casualties Reach Sunny Haven." Los Angeles Times, 5 May 1944: A1.
Text from newspaper caption: Tender leave-taking--Lt. Anne Wojcik, Army nurse aboard train which brought wounded to Birmingham General Hospital at Van Nuys, kisses Pfc. Cecil Fleming goodby. He was injured by blast in Persia.
Text from negative sleeve: Arrival of hospital train, Birmingham General Hosp. L to R. Lt. Anne Wojcik, Pfc. Cecil Fleming, 23
Type: Image
Identifier: c1429_b3195_29567-3
ark:/21198/zz002hjdrn
Language: English
Subject: Arrivals & departures--American--California--Van Nuys
Hospital trains--California--Los Angeles
Military officers--American--California--Los Angeles
Nurses--American--California--Los Angeles
United States. Army--Military life
Fleming, Cecil
Birmingham General Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Wojcik, Anne
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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