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Preferred Citation

Lieutenant Judy Kolze Army Nurse scrapbook, C0525, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Purchased by Lynn Eaton from Caroliniana Rare Books in 2021.

Processing Information

Processing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in November 2024. Finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in December 2024.

Biographical and Historical Information

Lieutenant Judy Kolze was born Mary Judith Kolze and graduated from California's Campbell Union High School in 1954 before serving in in the U.S. Army as a nurse. She was primarily stationed at the Army's 382nd General Hospital near Osaka, Japan.

At the start of the Korean War in 1950 there were approximately 22,000 women in the military, with approximately 7,000 of them serving as medical professionals. Many army nurses served in Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (also known as M.A.S.H.) units or staffed army hospitals in Japan, which during the Korean War cared for injured or ill service members who had been transported out of Korea. Over time these hospitals also began caring for an increasing number of service member dependents, expanding to include obstetrics and pediatric units.

Scope and Content

Scrapbook created by Lieutenant Judy Kolze documenting her time serving as an Army Nurse at the 382nd General Hospital in Japan. The exterior front and back cover of the scrapbook are bound in a textured fabric and the front cover includes a Japanese illustration and characters. The front inside cover included a pile of loose photographs, programs, and other ephemera that were removed and placed in a single folder. Most of these items pertain to Lieutenant Kolze's high school events and milestones, such as proms and graduations, and family weddings. The pages of the scrapbook contain approximately 174 uncaptioned personal photographs that depict Japanese street life and scenery, hospital buildings, group photos of the hospital's staff, daily hospital life and patients, and leisure activities featuring Lieutenant Kolze and others.

Arrangement

This is a single item collection. Loose ephemera items were removed from the scrapbook and stored in a single folder.

Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center holds other scrapbooks and collections related to both nursing and military service, such as the Edith Malleis nursing student scrapbook , World War II Hawaii photograph album , and Leonard H. Clark military history collection .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Japan
• Nurses
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks
• United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical care
• United States -- Armed Forces -- Military life
• United States. Army
• Women and the military
• Women and the military -- United States