Winifred Anne Jacobs Walker talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WWII

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Winifred Anne Jacobs Walker talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from February 1943 to October 1945. She discusses her Army training, shipping overseas to a base in Leominster in England, preparations for D-Day in the spring of 1944, treating invasion casualties, landing in Normandy at Utah Beach in July, and bivouacking near Carentan. Walker says her unit followed the advancing forces into Paris by train and later set up a tent hospital near Liege, Belgium. She remembers being on edge during the Battle of the Bulge and preparing to withdraw if necessary and the gory scene she witnessed when her base was hit by a German bomb which killed 25 soldiers. Walker says that she was sent home on a C-47 transport plane after the war, "hitch-hiked" across the U.S. by plane to see her fiance in Washington state and married him soon after her discharge from the Army.

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

France, Normandy, France, Normandy, and Europe

Subject Topic:

Marriage, Nurses, Military life, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Participation, Female, World War, 1939-1945, Campaigns, World War, 1939-1945, Casualties, Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945, World War, 1939-1945, and Medical care

Subject Name:

Walker, Winifred Anne Jacobs, 1921-2007, Walker, Winifred Anne Jacobs, 1921-2007, United States, Army, United States, Army Nurse Corps, United States, and Army

Subject Genre:

Personal narratives, American

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5wt55