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Garland

Hollywood stars put on variety show for GIs in the CBI during WWII, including Ruth Dennis (far left), Ben Blue, Ann Sheridan, and Mary Landa.
Nurse LaRetta Matthews Garland at a rest camp in China, in image from Jim Lewter, who was stationed at the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming. Some of Nurse Garland's story below: From autumn 1943 until summer 1945, Lakeland native Lt. LaRetta “Matty” Matthews was “over the Hump,” a nurse with the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming, China. Five thousand miles...