Dell Dinneen collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 01.0276

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes letters, photocopies of 2 personal scrapbooks, and photographs related to Dell Dinneen who served as a U.S. Army nurse during World War II in the European and Mediterranean Theaters with the 61st Field Hospital.

Dates

Created: 1943-1946
Other: Majority of material found in 1943-1945
Other: Date acquired: 06/18/2001

Creator

Dinneen, Dell (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Biographical or Historical Information

Dell M. Dinneen-Argast was born in New Richland, Minnesota on February 26, 1900. Prior to the war, Dinneen worked as a registered nurse in St. Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Dinneen joined the Army Nurse Corps on December 29, 1943. On December 29,1943, she was inducted at St. Paul, Minnesota. She began her training in Camp Fort Carson, Colorado. Then she was stationed at the following locations: Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Winter General Army Hosital (7th Service Command) Topeka, Kansas; Camp Ellis, Illinois; New York, NY; and Liverpool, Exeter, and Plymouth, England.

Dinneen served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, with the 15th Army, from December 1943 to 1946 in the European Theater (ETO) and the Mediterranean Theater with the 61st Field Hospital and the 110th station Hospital. By the time of discharge, Dinneen was a first lieutenant. Dinneen passed away on August 14, 1993 in Ramsey County, Minnesota.