Interview of Margaret Patricia Phillips on her thirty-two years of service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

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Description:

In an oral history interview, Margaret Patricia Phillips talks about her thirty-two years of service in the United States Army Nurse Corps. Phillips says that she joined the Army for patriotic reasons in 1944 while working as a nurse in a Detroit hospital. She says that she served as "chief nurse" in military hospitals around the globe and vividly remembers her plane taking enemy fire as it was trying to take off from the Bien Hoa Air Force Base in South Vietnam. Phillips says the biggest adjustment she had to make to military life was the communal living and that she did not expect to make the Army a career when she enlisted. Phillips is interviews by Marjorie Brown.

Date Issued:

1986-03-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

Vietnam and Biên Hòa

Subject Topic:

Career in military nursing, Military life, Nurses, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Veterans, Women veterans, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Participation, Female, and Bombardment

Subject Name:

Phillips, Margaret Patricia, Phillips, Margaret Patricia, United States, Army Nurse Corps, United States, and Army

Subject Genre:

Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, and Personal narratives, American

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5xm75