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1. Gertrude A. Lynn talks about her experiences serving in the the U.S. Army Nurse Corps with the 59th Evacuation Hospital during World War II

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Gertrude A. Lynn discusses her experiences serving in the the US Army Nurse Corps with the 59th Evacuation Hospital during World War II. Lynn describes graduating from the French Hospital nursing program in San Francisco, joining the Nurse Corps shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the movement of the 59th Evac Hospital from Casa Blanca to Palermo, Naples, Anzio, and later France and Germany. She also discusses meeting her future husband who was an Army captain, her time in Epinal, France where the nurses would sled down a hill to reach surgery, and meeting General George Patton and future U.S. Army General William Westmoreland.
Date Issued:
1989-01-11T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project