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- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting the interior of an tmpty factory. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1930 TO 1959]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Color Slide showing the image of a New Guinea neighborhood with a neat row of houses on a tree lined street.
- Date Issued:
- [1930 TO 1959]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Color Slide showing the image of an outdoor scene with mountains in the far distance. This may show a neighborhood in the distance. Circa 1940s.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting an aerial view of military boats launching from beach, most likely from Port Moresby, New Guinea
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting bombing of Wewak, New Guinea. This area was bombed by the USAAF Fifth Air Force Aug. 17-21, 1943 and was identified by the shape of the island.
- Date Issued:
- 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting the decomposing and mostly naked dead body of a soldier in a field. 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:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting Manila, Philippines after the Japanese bombing in 1945.
- Date Issued:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting a deceased soldier in the mud outside of a village. 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:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting a deceased soldier in the mud with two American soldiers standing in background. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Florence Bernstein McChesney, from the Women's Overseas Service League Pittsburgh Unit, talks about her service as a flight nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1949. McChesney explains why she volunteered for the Army while working in a TB ward in a Detroit hospital and discusses her training and finally being assigned to the Pacific Theater of Operations. She describes her duties, flying frequently to the States with patients, her quarters in Hawaii and on Guadalcanal, her uniforms, the types of illness and injuries she treated and says that she was the first nurse on Okinawa. McChesney says that she used the G.I. Bill to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees after the war and worked as a nurse until her retirement in 1974. McChesney is interviewed by Amelia Bunder.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-01-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Retired Major Harriet Jayne talks about her long career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, before, during and after World War II. After receiving her nurse's training at Marquette University, Jayne says that she enlisted in the Army and was sent to Fort Custer in Michigan for training in February 1941, was shipped out with the 52nd Evac Hospital to New Caledonia in September 1942 and to the New Hebrides with the 48th Station Hospital in January 1943. She talks about the mosquitoes, and hot days and cold nights in the South Pacific, having malaria and later being sent to New Zealand to recover from a broken foot. Jayne says that she rejoined her unit on Guadalcanal in June 1944, moved north with the fighting to Tinian Island in January 1945 and was on Tinian when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. She says that she returned to the States in October 1945 and recalls her many duty stations after the war and finally ending her career in February 1961 while serving at Fort Bragg. Jayne is interviewed by Betty C. Taylor Thompson.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Retired Army Colonel Erna H. "Tommy" Thompson (nee Schmidt) talks about her youth in Ada, Minnesota, her education and her long career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. After nursing school at St. Johns Hospital in St. Paul, MN and additional course work at the University of Chicago, and after receiving advice directly from Eleanor Roosevelt, Thompson enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps. While her husband, who was also in the Army, was sent to Europe, Thompson says that in 1942 she was sent to Guadalcanal in the South Pacific. Thompson talks about working at front line aid stations on Guam in the Mariana Islands, Enewetak Atoll, and Iwo Jima and says that she did not like being required to give transfusions from scarce blood supplies to Japanese casualties and was upset that her personal mail was censored. Thompson says she was discharged from the Army in December 1945, went back to active duty in 1948 and worked in hospitals at Fort Sam Houston and in Chicago and then in 1955, resigned from active duty and went into teaching. She says that in 1957 she went back into active duty and served in Hawaii, Fort Bragg, Puerto Rico, New Mexico, and Berlin and finally retired from the Army in September 1969. Thompson also talks about the tension between practicing nursing and teaching nursing and describes her retirement activities. Thompson is interviewed by Wilda Smith.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-01-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Peggy Lechtweis talks about her five years of service in the Army Nurse Corp during World War Two. Lechtweis discusses her induction, basic training, and shipping out to Fiji in the Pacific. She also describes life on base and her responsibilities as chief nurse at the hospital and putting in long shifts in operating rooms. She explains how her unit moved as it followed the advancing U.S. troops across the Pacific to Okinawa and describes the events on VJ-Day, and later treating Allied POWs after their release from Japanese camps. Lechtweis is interviewed by Lois Collet.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-05-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Genevieve Manning Voelker talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War Two, her youth in South Dakota and her nurse's training in Minnesota. Voelker says that she joined the Nurse Corps in 1942, after Pearl Harbor and was shipped out in March 1943 to serve in the South West Pacific, first in Hollandia, New Guinea and later in Manila. She talks about being an officer, working as a staff nurse, living in tents, foxholes, and native huts, the dangers that came with everyday life in the tropics, a typical day of duty, the scarcity of fresh water, needing to wear leggings and men's trousers and shoes to ward off mosquitoes and the native population and village life. Voelker says she did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill after the war because she married, that her biggest adjustment to military life was dealing with the sexist doctors, that the regular soldiers were admirable and endured terrible hardships and that it was difficult for her to adjust to life back home after two years in the living in the jungle. Voelker is interviewed by Virginia Cornett.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-03-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- 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:
- 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
- Description:
- Color Slide depicting Sydney, Australia as seen from a shady area and overlooked a body of water. Circa 1940s.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Color Slide depicting a military base.
- Date Issued:
- [1930 TO 1959]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting Dennis Cooper (third from left) with five other Air Force officers outside of hospital building. Sign on left reads: _th Emer. Res. Entrance. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting two men on a 'bangka', or outrigger canoe, with a sail. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting two men sitting on beach and one man swimming. Possibly military trucks in the background on left of the image. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1930 TO 1959]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting an aerial view of Manila, Philippines. This area was identified by the shape of the Pasig River.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting ten Air Force men standing next to a plane. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting an aerial view of military base with tents, trucks, ships on the water in the distance. This location is likely Port Moresby, New Guinea.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting an airfield, possibly the base for the 5th Air Force at Port Moresby, New Guinea.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting two American soldiers looking at a deceased soldier. It is possible that the deceased soldier is Japanese. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting several people in a church that was damaged during bombing raids. This is likely Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Makati, Philippines.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting several people on three 'bangka', or outrigger canoes, with bystanders watching from beach in the background of the image. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting mountains and an lush, green valley with trees.
- Date Issued:
- [1930 TO 1959]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting a military boat on the left of the image near palm trees and a beach.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting people examining ruins of a city, possibly Manila, Philippines.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting two soldiers in small trench with a machine gun. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Color Slide depicting a soldier standing in front of a wrecked and abandoned hut. Circa 1940s.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection
- Description:
- Hand tinted Lantern slide depicting an Air Force officer giving a speech with two men standing in the background. Unknown location.
- Date Issued:
- [1940 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Dennis Glen Cooper Collection