[Interview of Virginia Louise Brown on her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WWII].

Ginny Brown talks about her childhood in Tennessee, graduating from nursing school in 1943 and joining the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in July of that same year. After her initial training, Brown says that she volunteered to go overseas and was assigned to the 48th General Hospital in Petworth England in...

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Corporate Authors: Vincent Voice Library (digitizer.)
University of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries (current owner.)
Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Other Authors: Brown, Virginia Louise, 1921-2011 (Interviewee)
Stewart, Ruth F. (Interviewer)
Habgood, Carol A., 1940- (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Brown, Virginia Louise, > 1921-2011 > Interviews.
United States. > Army Nurse Corps > Interviews.
United States. > Army > Military life.
Brown, Virginia Louise, > 1921-2011 > Childhood and youth.
Brown, Virginia Louise, > 1921-2011 > Knowledge and learning.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army Nurse Corps.
Nursing.
Nurses > Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945 > Veterans > Interviews.
Women veterans > Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female.
World War, 1939-1945 > Hospitals > England > Petworth.
World War, 1939-1945 > Hospitals > France > Riviera.
Discrimination in the military > United States.
Sex discrimination in employment > United States.
Armed Forces > Military life.
Discrimination in the military.
Hospitals.
Military participation > Female.
Nurses.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Veterans.
Women veterans.
England > Petworth.
France > Riviera.
United States.
1939-1945
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Personal narratives > American.
Genre:
Interviews.
Personal narratives, American.
Oral histories.
Personal narratives
American.
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