[Interview of Mary J. Ford on her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WWII].
In an oral history interview, Mary J. Ford talks about her childhood and education in Indiana and serving in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II. After basic training, Ford says that she was first sent to Casablanca in Morocco in September 1943 and after a month, to Naples, Italy. She says...
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| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 audio file (52 min.)) |
| Format: | Electronic Audio Software |
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In an oral history interview, Mary J. Ford talks about her childhood and education in Indiana and serving in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II. After basic training, Ford says that she was first sent to Casablanca in Morocco in September 1943 and after a month, to Naples, Italy. She says that in Naples, she served in a hospital located in a monastery which had been bombed by the Germans and that she struggled to adjust to life in Italy and treating wounded soldiers and describes her duties and working with nurses who were mainly from Detroit. Ford talks about the feelings she had after returning to the United States and why she chose to go volunteer for second tour of duty in Italy at the end of the war. |
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| 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 35385 DB35385 cassette |
| Playing Time: | 00:52:00 |
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Interviewee, Mary J. Ford ; interviewers, Ruth F. Stewart, Carol A. Habgood. |
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Recorded 2004 January 13 |