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- In an oral history interview, Winifred Gansel discusses her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War Two. Gansel talks about growing up in California, graduating from nursing school in 1931, her enlistment in the U.S. Army after Pearl Harbor and being sent to New Guinea with the 80th General Hospital. Gansel describes life at the camp, working with the native people, surviving insects and lizards, dealing with hygiene issues, and what the nurses did to relax. She says that the 80th later moved with the troops to the Philippines and she talks about treating severely dehydrated and malnourished soldiers in tent hospitals there, and her duty in a polio ward. Gansel says that she came back to the States in November 1945, was discharged as a captain in March 1946, and returned to her position as a supervisor at the Santa Clara County Hospital in California. Gansel is interviewed by Norma I. Williams.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-05-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- In a wide-ranging oral history interview, Josephine Boecker discusses her service in the American Red Cross in the South Pacific from September 1943 to September 1946. Boecker says she was contacted by the Red Cross and later called for war service and recalls anticipating being sent to North Africa and being surprised when she found herself on a train bound for the west coast. Boecker talks about activities on board ship during the four week trip to New Guinea, the reception the nurses received from the soldiers when they came ashore and being assigned to the 47th General Hospital near Milne Bay where Red Cross workers staffed recreation programs. She describes camp conditions, sanitation, food, the malaria epidemics, finding activities to keep the troops occupied, and spending her leave in Australia and later following the Army to the Philippines. Boecker says that she was overjoyed when she heard the news of the dropping of the atomic bomb and that the war was over. She says she was later and shipped to Japan to staff a hospital in Tokyo and discusses the destruction she saw and the effects that the U.S. occupation had on Japanese society. Boecker is recorded for the Radcliffe College Library.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Color Slide depicting the image of a complete human skeleton in the woods, wearing boots. This photograph was likely taken in New Guinea during the 1940s.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting a river with mountains visible in the distance. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1930 TO 1959]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the media at a White House press briefing held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam during President Obama's visit. Kerry explains the reasons for the visit, says Vietnam is practicing a "raging form of capitalism" and describes the results of previous efforts to improve trade relations between the two countries. Kerry says that the U.S. and Vietnam are cooperating on security issues and that Vietnam has joined the United Nations relief and peace initiatives. He also answers questions from the press about China's reaction to improved U.S.-Vietnamese relations, progress against ISIS in Iraq, and American objectives in the Pacific. Kerry is introduced by assistant White House Press Secretary Eric Schultz.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-05-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack H. Obama speaks at the conclusion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, held in Hawaii. He talks about trade with Asian-Pacific countries, U.S. policies toward China and Iran, and a recent Republican presidential debate on foreign policy. Obama also says that the allegations of sexual abuse of college football players at Penn State University should cause all institutions to pause and reevaluate their practices and policies.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-11-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting a deceased soldier in a trench. It is possible that this is a Japanese soldier. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Color Slide depicting Captain Harry Brown in the cockpit of a plane. Circa 1943.
- Date Issued:
- 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting two men in a raft, likely Air Force personnell, taking an injured man for medical care. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Color Slide depicting an image of a village chief carving a boat on Kirwina Island, New Guinea. Circa 1940s.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection