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- Janet A. Bachmeyer talks about her thirty-year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from July 1944 to June 1974. Bachmeyer says she received her nurse's training at the Evangelical School of Nursing in Chicago and worked her way up the ranks in the military from staff nurse to chief nurse before she retired. She talks about her duty stations in Europe during World War II and others in postwar Germany, Korea and in Vietnam. Bachmeyer describes post housing, her uniforms, and her vivid memories of being in London on V-E Day and celebrating all night. Bachmeyer says that she hadn't intended to make the military a career but decided it was right for her after leaving active service for a couple of years. Bachmeyer also talks about her activities in retirement and her feelings about the WOSL. Bachmeyer is interviewed by Marjorie Brown.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-04-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
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- Ione McCormick talks about her nine years of reserve and active duty service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines and at the Presidio in San Francisco and says she was motivated by patriotism to enlist. McCormick says that she was nurse at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital prior to enlisting and was first assigned to Central Supply at the 313th General Hospital in Manila. She talks about her pay, common duties for women, her quarters, and her uniform. She says she returned to being a civilian nurse after she her discharge, joined the Women's Overseas Service League in 1976 and that she is currently vice president of her unit.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project