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Dorothea Rhein

The following June 7, 1945, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 1:

    Home After 22 Months Overseas

    1st Lt. Dorothea Rhein, after serving 22 months in the nurses' corps overseas, is now at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rhein, at Cedar Lake.

    Lt. Rhein served with a psychiatric station hospital on Leyte island in the Philippines. She has previously been assigned to duty in Australia and Milne Bay, New Guinea.

    On active duty aboard ship, while returning to the states, she cared for civilian internees, who were being evacuated to the U.S. from Manila.

    A graduate of St. Elizabeth's Hospital School of Nursing, Lafayette, Ind., Lt. Rhein was employed at Porter Memorial hospital, Valparaiso, before entering the service.

Last updated on November 8, 2004.

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