Interview of Anne Noreen Bauer on her twenty-eight year career as an U.S. Army nurse

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Description:

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anne Noreen Bauer talks about her twenty-eight year career as an United States Army nurse. Bauer talks about enlisting in August 1942 at the age of twenty-seven, her training, early assignments at Fort Benjamin Harrison where she became head nurse and finally shipping out to Bombay, India on her way to Karachi with the 159th Station Hospital. Bauer remembers the voyage to India, having dinner with Britain's Lord Louis Mountbatten, working with British nurses, staff and civilians, taking over a convent to use as a hospital, and the many the diseases and injuries she treated. She also discusses her many post-war assignments which took her around the world and especially her efforts to establish hospitals in Vietnam and provide the local population with medical assistance. Bauer is interviewed by Jane Fore.

Date Issued:

1985-06-20T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

India, Pakistan, Karachi, Vietnam, Vietnam, and Fort Benjamin Harrison (Ind.)

Subject Topic:

Career in military nursing, Travel, Nurses, Military life, World War, 1939-1945, Veterans, Women veterans, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Participation, Female, Military nursing, Hospitals, and Medical care

Subject Name:

Bauer, Anne Noreen, 1915-2003, Bauer, Anne Noreen, 1915-2003, Bauer, Anne Noreen, 1915-2003, 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/m5dt4f