[Dorothy M. Harrison talks about the life of Mildred Stutzenberger including her service in the American Red Cross during WWII].

Dorothy M. Harrison describes the efforts of the Louisville Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League to collect and persevere the histories of its members and then talks about the life of Mildred Stutzenberger who served in the American Red Cross during World War II. Reading from local documents...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Vincent Voice Library (digitizer.)
University of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries (current owner.)
Other Authors: Harrison, Dorothy M. (Dorothy McDonald), 1914-2004 (Speaker)
Language:English
Subjects:
Stutzenberger, Mildred, > 1918-1978.
American National Red Cross > Biography.
Stutzenberger, Mildred, > 1918-1978 > Death and burial.
Women's Overseas Service League. > Louisville Unit.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female.
American National Red Cross.
World War, 1939-1945 > War work > Red Cross.
World War, 1939-1945 > Hospitals > Burma.
Soldiers > Recreation > India > Kolkata.
Retirement.
Oral history.
Hospitals.
Military participation > Female.
Soldiers > Recreation.
War work > Red Cross.
Burma.
India > Kolkata.
1939-1945
Oral histories.
Genre:
Biography.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (11 min., 30 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software
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Summary:
Dorothy M. Harrison describes the efforts of the Louisville Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League to collect and persevere the histories of its members and then talks about the life of Mildred Stutzenberger who served in the American Red Cross during World War II. Reading from local documents and an interview with Stutzenberger, Harrison talks about Stutzenberger first working in hospitals in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations and then transferring to club work at the Bengal Air Depot in India. According to Harrison, Stutzenberger also served in Guam and Saipan and with the occupation forces in Japan. Harrison also recounts Stutzenberger's retirement and later death from lung cancer.
Note:Title supplied.
Part of the Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project.
Originally recorded on an analog cassette held by the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries. Digitized by the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries.
Call Number:Voice 35103
DB35103 cassette
Playing Time:00:11:30