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- Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Alice Pfeiffer talks about her youth in Illinois, her education and her career as an Air Force nurse and administrator. Pfeiffer says that she enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1941, talks about her first duty stations and says that after additional training at Fort Bragg, was sent to England aboard the Queen Mary. Pfeiffer says that she was assigned to the 68th General Hospital which was set up in a cow pasture, worked 12 hour shifts, and lived in very, very basic conditions. After D-Day, Pfeiffer says that she worked in a hospital in France, was finally sent back to the U.S. after the war and was discharged in 1946. She says that she enlisted in the Air Force in 1949, served at various bases and hospitals around the world and retired in 1964 while stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB. Ends abruptly. Pfeiffer is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-02-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
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- Ruth Weisberg says, in an oral history interview, that she joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which later became the Women's Army Corps, in February 1943. Weisberg recalls receiving training at several bases in the U.S. before going back to New York to embark for Europe in late 1943 on a ship with the 101st Airborne Division. Her first assignment overseas, Weisberg says, was with the Military Attache in the American Embassy in London where she handled secret communications. The classified nature of her work prevented her from getting acquainted with many people, she says, but she did meet and marry an officer from the 101st Airborne in January 1944 and left the service in July 1945 to become a dependent army wife.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project