Interview of Margaret Kaminski Bliss on her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

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Description:

Margaret Kaminski Bliss talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corp from August 1941 through July 1946. Bliss says she trained as a civilian at St. Lukes School of Nursing in Idaho, that her first military assignment was at Fort Lewis in Washington and that she was later sent overseas to war-time New Guinea and Manila. She talks about the insects, snakes and other poisonous creatures in New Guinea, her quarters, her uniforms, the torrential rain storms, tropical diseases, the forbidding jungle, seeing Japanese submarines, being escorted to the latrine by an armed guard, seeing USO shows, the rations and having the chocolates sent from home melt immediately in the equatorial heat. Bliss also confides that she was secretly married in 1943 but that her husband was soon killed overseas and that she was married again after the war. Bliss is interviewed by Neola Ann Spackman.

Date Issued:

1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

New Guinea and Manila (Philippines)

Subject Topic:

Knowledge, Nursing, Marriage, Military life, Barracks and quarters, Uniforms, World War, 1939-1945, Veterans, Women veterans, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, and Participation, Female

Subject Name:

Bliss, Margaret Kaminski, Bliss, Margaret Kaminski, Bliss, Margaret Kaminski, United States, Army Nurse Corps, United States, Army, United States, Army, United States, and Army

Subject Genre:

Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, and Personal narratives, American

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5mq5n