[Interview of Katie Kerr on her service in the American Red Cross during WWII].

Katie Kerr talks about her service in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Kerr describes becoming a medical technician, volunteering for the Red Cross in March 1944 and serving as a hospital recreation worker. She talks about her initial duties and training at American University in Washing...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project, Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors: Kerr, Katie, 1916-2003 (Interviewee), Hornbacher, Elsie, 1918- (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Kerr, Katie, > 1916-2003 > Interviews.
Kerr, Katie, > 1916-2003 > Marriage.
American National Red Cross > Interviews.
E.W. Sparrow Hospital (Lansing, Mich.)
American National Red Cross.
1939-1945
Soldiers > Services for > England.
Soldiers > Wounds and injuries > England.
V-E Day, 1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female.
Marriage.
Military participation > Female.
Soldiers > Services for.
Soldiers > Wounds and injuries.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945.
England.
Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Oral histories.
History.
Interviews.
Personal narratives > American.
Genre:
Interviews.
Personal narratives, American.
Oral histories.
History.
Personal narratives
American.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (31 min., 28 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software
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Summary:
Katie Kerr talks about her service in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Kerr describes becoming a medical technician, volunteering for the Red Cross in March 1944 and serving as a hospital recreation worker. She talks about her initial duties and training at American University in Washington D.C. and later being shipped to England. She talks about her time in England, how complicated relationships could become, recreation activities the Red Cross organized to entertain the troops, and some of her patients and their injuries. She remembers V-E Day, anticipating being sent to the Pacific Theater, coming back to the States in July 1945, taking a job at Lansing, Michigan's Sparrow Hospital, and meeting her husband, a Michigan State Police Trooper. Kerr talks about how she felt when the atomic bomb was dropped and signs off the interview by reciting her serial number. Kerr is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
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:DB32717 cassette
Voice 32717
Playing Time:00:31:28
Participant or Performer:
Interviewee, Katie Kerr ; interviewer, Elsie Hornbacher.
Event Details:
Recorded 1984 August 14