[Interview of Patricia Young Berri on her service in the American Red Cross during WWII].

Patricia Young Berri talks about her service in the American Red Cross during World War Two from February 1944 to March 1945. Berri says she was working as a secretary for Shell Oil in Houston and doing USO work when she volunteered and was first assigned to the 117th Station Hospital in Leyte in th...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors:	Berri, Patricia Young (Interviewee) Brown, Marjorie (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Subjects:	Berri, Patricia Young > Interviews. American National Red Cross > Interviews. American National Red Cross > Uniforms. American National Red Cross. World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female. World War, 1939-1945 > War work > Red Cross. Hospital patients > Recreation > Philippines > Leyte. Toilets > Philippines > Leyte. Adjustment (Psychology) Hospital patients > Recreation. Military participation > Female. Toilets. Uniforms. War work > Red Cross. Philippines > Leyte. 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 (5 min., 48 sec.))
Format:	Electronic Audio Software

Similar Items

[Interview of Patricia Young Berri on returning to the United States in March 1945 near the end of her service in the American Red Cross during WWII].

Leyte: the return to the Philippines.
by: Cannon, M. Hamlin
Published: (1954)

Let there be mercy ; the odyssey of a Red cross man
by: Maloney, John, 1948-
Published: (1941)

[Interview of Virginia Emrich on her experience running Red Cross recreation clubs in Australia for U.S. troops during WWII]. [Part 2].

Leyte calling...
by: St. John, Joseph F.
Published: (1945)

[Programs for Relief of German-Occupied Poland].
Published: (1940)

Leyte--the return to the Philippines
by: Cannon, M. Hamlin
Published: (1993)

Battlestars & doughnuts : World War II clubmobile experiences of Mary Metcalfe Rexford
by: Rexford, Mary Metcalfe
Published: (1989)

A rabbi with the American Red Cross.
by: Isserman, Ferdinand Myron, 1898-
Published: (1958)

Use of American National Red Cross in time of actual or threatened war.
Published: (1943)

[In a written memoir read by Marjorie Brown, Ruby Busch recalls her service in the American Red Cross during WWII].
by: Busch, Ruby

At his side ; the story of the American Red cross overseas in World War II
by: Korson, George Gershon, 1899-1967
Published: (1945)

[Interview of Edna Emily Miller on her experience as a prisoner of war in Philippines during WWII and teaching at U.S. Army schools in occupied Japan].

[Interview of Helene Finston Denny on her service in England and France as a part of the Red Cross during WWII].

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

The Battle for Leyte, 1944 allied and Japanese plans, preparations, and execution
by: Vego, Milan N.
Published: (2006)

One of the boys but always a lady : the life of a Red Cross recreation worker in combat troop camps in Australia during the war with Japan
by: Dowling, Lillian Jones
Published: (1998)

The conscience of the Nation ; a history of the Red Cross in the Philippines, 1896-1962
by: Aluit, Alphonso J., 1930-
Published: (1963)

Manual of Red Cross camp service.
Published: (1919)

[Interview of Lois Kuen Johnson on her experiences serving overseas in the American Red Cross rest camps near the end of WWII].

[Interview of Edna Scott on her service with the American Red Cross in France in 1918 and 1919].

Angepasst und treu ergeben : das Rote Kreuz im "Dritten Reich"
by: Lichtenstein, Heiner, 1932-
Published: (1988)

Slinging doughnuts for the boys : an American woman in World War II
by: Madison, James H.
Published: (2007)

[Interview of Katherine Wilson on her service in the American Red Cross in Europe during WWII].

Battle of Leyte Gulf : the largest sea battle of the Second World War
by: Grehan, John, et al.
Published: (2021)

[Interview of Virginia Emrich on her experience running Red Cross recreation clubs in Australia for U.S. troops during WWII]. [Part 1].

Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its activities during the Second World War, September 1, 1939-June 30,1947.
Published: (1948)

American National Red Cross.
Published: (1912)

American National Red Cross.
Published: (1912)

Report of American National Red Cross, 1907. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the proceedings of the American National Red Cross for the Year 1907.
Published: (1908)

[Interview of Mildred Blandford on her service as a secretary in the American Red Cross during WWII].

American Red Cross.
Published: (1910)

The Red Cross ; a history of this remarkable international movement in the interest of humanity
by: Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
Published: (1898)

My monograph : war relief work in old Louisiana
by: Penrose, Laura E. Maginnis
Published: (1919)

American National Red Cross.
Published: (1903)

American National Red Cross.
Published: (1909)

For the duration
by: Jacobsen, Eve Porter
Published: (1995)

Spy in the Vatican, 1941-45
by: Bokun, Branko, 1920-2011
Published: (1973)

Red Cross in Aid of Land and Naval Forces : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Seventy-Eighth Congress, first session, on May 4, 1943.
Published: (1943)

Vessels Carrying Red Cross Supplies to Belligerents : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Seventy-Sixth Congress, third session, on June 18, 1940.
Published: (1940)