[Interview of Helene Gram Forster on her overseas hospital service with the American Red Cross during WWII].

Helene Gram Forster talks about her hospital service with the American Red Cross between June 1943 and December 1945. Forster explains why she volunteered and describes her duties as a hospital recreation worker charged with providing activities and entertainment for patients at bases in North Afri...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Other Authors: Forster, Helene Gram, 1913- (Interviewee)
Fonn, Edna (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Forster, Helene Gram, > 1913- > Interviews.
American National Red Cross > Interviews.
American National Red Cross.
Hospitals > Employees > Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Hospitals > Italy.
World War, 1939-1945 > Hospitals > France.
World War, 1939-1945 > Hospitals > Africa, North.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female.
Hospitals.
Hospitals > Employees.
Military participation > Female.
North Africa.
France.
Italy.
1939-1945
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Personal narratives > American.
Genre:
Interviews.
Personal narratives, American.
Oral histories.
Personal narratives
American.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (54 min., 57 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software
Description
Summary:
Helene Gram Forster talks about her hospital service with the American Red Cross between June 1943 and December 1945. Forster explains why she volunteered and describes her duties as a hospital recreation worker charged with providing activities and entertainment for patients at bases in North Africa, Italy and France. Forster says that the convoy which brought her to Africa was attacked near Oran, Algeria, and describes crossing the Mediterranean to Naples and being based in a convent hospital in Caserta, Italy, living conditions in camps in Algeria and Italy, caring for allied troops from several countries, and setting up a hospital in a French cavalry school. She says she sailed on a hospital ship back to the States for her leave and then returned to unit in France aboard a mail plane which also carried one of General Eisenhower's aides with a top secret set of battle plans. Forster says that her service during the war was a special time in her life. Forster is interviewed by Edna Fonn.
Note:Title supplied.
Part of the Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project.
Digitized by the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries.
Call Number:Voice 32705
DB32705 cassette
Playing Time:00:54:57
Participant or Performer:
Interviewee, Helene Gram Forster ; interviewer, Edna Fonn.
Event Details:
Recorded 1983 May 10