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- Dorothy Doyle recalls her service in the United States Army Nurse Corps. Doyle says that she enlisted in the Army in 1942 after spending ten years in civilian nursing and talks about basic training and her duty stations in the U.S. and later in New Hebrides, New Caledonia, New Zealand and a stint in Saipan after the battle of Iwo Jima. She also talks about the complicated social dynamics in the army, racism, and the trials of nursing in field hospitals. Doyle is interviewed by Kathryn Cavanaugh.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-07-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) radio technician Eleanor Jean Bechtel discusses her enlistment, the social environment in wartime America, her basic training in West Palm Beach, FL, and receiving electronics and radio instruction at the Ben Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia. She also talks about the base in Florida where she trained, seeing John Wayne and Robert Montgomery there filming a movie, and moving to post-war Japan to work as a civilian secretary.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-07-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Wanda Sherwood Kearns discusses her service as an air traffic controller in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) of the U.S. Naval Reserves during World War II. Kearns talks about her basic training in Atlanta, Georgia, learning Morse code and how to "fly blind" in a flight simulator and shares military aviation anecdotes. She says that control tower operators were considered elite and were allowed privileges such as time off between shifts, weekend passes, and free flights to any military base. She also recalls that a woman's voice was thought to be more clearly intelligible over the radio than a man's and that women controllers were allowed to wear slacks to ensure decorum when they climbed ladders. Kearns is interviewed by Kathryn Cavanaugh.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-08-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Annis Dimmitt describes her service in the Women's Army Corps. Dimmitt says that she enlisted at age 21 in 1943, inspired by her brother's service at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack. Dimmitt also talks about her work at a 24-hour teletype station, being ordered to ride out a hurricane at her post because teletype operation was deemed a critical duty, meeting her future husband on base, getting married after the war, and working for VA hospitals in Buffalo, NY, Austin, TX, Fort Wayne and Marion, IN, and Bath, NY before retiring in 1982.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-08-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Barbara Jean Brown recalls her service in the United States Naval Women's Reserve (WAVES) program during World War Two. Brown describes enlisting in Lansing, Michigan in September 1943, attending boot camp in Bronx, New York City, receiving training in dictation and shorthand in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and being stationed in Washington, D.C. where she stayed in a barracks across from Arlington Cemetery. She also talks about drilling on the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, seeing President Roosevelt's limo, the Capital under blackout restrictions, the return of street lights after V-J Day, and President Roosevelt's funeral procession. Brown is interviewed by Sarah McLennan.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-05-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Marian Cyberski talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corp during World War Two and says that she was inspired to enlist after seeing the movie "The shores of Tripoli." Cyberski talks about being stationed at field hospitals in Rockhampton, Indooroopilly, and Brisbane, Australia, treating mostly malaria and battle fatigue patients, and originally shipping out to Australia on the luxury liner SS Lurline. She also talks about her daily life in Australia, vacationing in Sydney, leaving Australia on a ship which contained many Australian war brides and crying babies, arriving home in September 1945, and getting married in November to a man whom she had met as a patient.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Rachel Babcock recalls her service as a radio operator with the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War Two. Babcock talks about the transition to basic training from teaching in a country school in Ingham County, Michigan, serving on a blimp base in Georgia, the culture shock of color-segregated facilities in the south, hitchhiking to the beach on weekends, and how civilians would frequently pay for meals for service members. She also talks about her post-military life, enrolling at Michigan State University, teaching in Lansing, MI, and the role of women in the American military.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-10-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Prudence Burns Burrell talks about enlisting in the the United States Army Nurse Corps as a registered nurse in 1942 and her service during World War Two in medical units in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. She also talks about the racism she experienced while in the Army, and marrying a medical administrator with whom she worked in the Philippines in a wedding dress made from a parachute.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Irene Hosking discusses her service in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Hosking talks about meeting her husband as an enlisted soldier, getting married and worrying that their marriage would interfere with her military career. She also talks about serving as a nurse in Sydney, Brisbane, and Townsville, Australia, daily life in a field hospital, her dedication to military service, and her participation in the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization. Hosking is interviewed by Kathryn Cavanaugh.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-07-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Elizabeth Crane Anesi talks about enlisting for officer training in the Women's U.S. Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, establishing an embarkation point in San Francisco as her first major assignment, and how the WAAC was changed to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) within a year of her enlistment. Anesi also talks about being transferred to New York, visiting President Roosevelt's grave, establishing a rest and relaxation post at an unused dorm at Vassar College, and her last assignment which was conducting POW separation interviews in Indiana.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-03-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection