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1. Interview of retired Lieutenant Colonel Mary Templeton Gates on her twenty-year service in the U.S. Army Air Forces and later U.S. Air Force

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Ninety year old U.S. Army and Air Force veteran Mary Templeton Gates talks about her childhood, education and service career. Gates says that her decision to go into nursing was the result of her family's long history in medicine and that after graduating from nursing school in 1938, she worked in Georgia and New York City before deciding to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Corps to become a flight nurse. Gates says that she turned down a teaching position to become chief nurse in a squadron sent to the Pacific during the war and describes her career in the Army through service in hospitals in Guam, Hawaii and Bermuda. After the war, Gates says that she left the Army, but later enlisted for duty in the Air Force at the start of the Korean War. She says that she became a Lieutenant Colonel around 1960 and finally retired shortly after. Templeton is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
Date Issued:
2004-04-07T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project