[Interview of Betty Van Kirk on her eleven months of service in the American Red Cross in the Pacific Theater during World War II].
In an oral history interview, Betty Van Kirk discusses her eleven months of service in the American Red Cross in the Pacific Theater during World War II. She talks about her training at American University, shipping overseas to New Guinea, how women were treated, dating, the climate, dispensing ciga...
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| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 audio file (48 min., 5 sec.)) |
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In an oral history interview, Betty Van Kirk discusses her eleven months of service in the American Red Cross in the Pacific Theater during World War II. She talks about her training at American University, shipping overseas to New Guinea, how women were treated, dating, the climate, dispensing cigarettes, toothpaste and other personal items to soldiers in the hospital wards where she worked, sleeping under mosquito netting, being "sacred to death" of malaria, and meeting former American POWs and seeing their deplorable condition. Van Kirk says that she now finds it hard to remember the faces of the people she served with so long ago. Ends abruptly. |
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| Note: | Title supplied. Part of the Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project. Recording was made for the Presidio Army Museum in San Francisco. Digitized by the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries. |
| Call Number: | DB32799 casette Voice 32799 |
| Playing Time: | 00:48:05 |
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Interviewee, Betty Van Kirk. |
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Recorded 1982 April 1 |