Dorothy M. Harrison reads from the memoir of the late Anna Catherine Corbin, who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II

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Dorothy M. Harrison reads from the memoir of the late Anna Catherine Corbin, a Louisville Women's Overseas Service League member, who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Corbin describes deploying as part of the 300th General Hospital unit out of Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, being shipped to North Africa on a converted ocean liner, landing at Bizerte, Tunisia and later being sent to Naples, Italy. Corbin talks about setting up a hospital in a former TB sanatorium in Naples, treating soldiers with terrible wounds, the enormous number of casualties that came from the Battle of Anzio, working 23 hour shifts and how few patient fatalities the hospital had in the face of such carnage. She says that she was shipped back to the States in August 1945 and was discharged in October 1945.

Date Issued:

1983-10-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

Italy and Naples

Subject Topic:

Military life, Transportation, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Participation, Female, World War, 1939-1945, Medical care, and Anzio, Battle of, Anzio, Italy, 1944

Subject Name:

Corbin, Anna Catherine, 1912-1970, United States, Army Nurse Corps, United States, Army, 300th General Hospital (United States. Army), United States, and Army

Subject Genre:

Personal narratives, American

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5612w