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Martha Davis served as a U.S. Army Special Services Librarian during World War II. Martha Harrison Davis was born on September 11, 1912, in Goldsboro, North Carolina. She was a twin, but the brother William died in infancy. Davis graduated from Goldsboro High School in 1928 and began attending Salem College in Winston-Salem. After graduating with a Bachelors of Arts with a teaching certificate, she spent two years teaching in Mount Olive. Davis returned to school in New York City to earn a degree in library science and stayed to work as a library liasion for a public library and a Yorkville neighborhood school. She returned to her home state to work at Fort Bragg as their librarian, serving with the military the remaining two years of the war. She was chosen amongst nine other [...] Read more