Kathryn Christine Mae Lee Murphy papers, 1938-1960.

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Kathryn Christine Mae Lee Murphy papers, 1938-1960.

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Military service records; personal correspondence and papers, some relating to her military service and medical duties; and photographs, including pictures of Lee as a navy nurse and of her ex-husband Millard E. Murphy.

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Nevada State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6910962

Nevada State Historical Society

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Murphy, Kathryn Christine Mae Lee, 1911-1989

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Resident of Reno, Nev.; also known as Mae Kay Lee; U.S. Navy Reserve officer and nurse during World War II; supervisor of nurses at the Nevada State Hospital for Mental Disease, in Sparks, Nev., during the 1950s. From the description of Kathryn Christine Mae Lee Murphy papers, 1938-1960. (Nevada State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 166428883 ...

Nevada State Hospital for Mental Disease.

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Murphy, Millard E.

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United States. Naval Reserve

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On Aug. 19, 1916, with the prospect of World War I looming, the Navy Reserve Force was formally organized. The first official U.S. Navy Reservists hunted enemy U-boats from the cockpits of biplanes. When World War II erupted on September 1, 1939, the Navy Reserve was ready. By the summer of 1941, virtually all of its members were serving on active duty, their numbers destined to swell when Japanese planes roared over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Over the course of the ensuing four years, th...