Interview of retired Lieutenant Colonel Jean Schiffman on her career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

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Description:

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Jean Schiffman talks about her career in the Army Nurse Corp beginning in 1949 and her service in a MASH unit during the Korean War. Schiffman says she grew up in Philadelphia, worked as an RN before enlisting in the Army and took basic training at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, and advanced training at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. In Korea, Schiffman says that she served with the 8063 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital and talks about "in-country" living conditions, her duties and the advance medical procedures hospital staff were able to perform under very primitive conditons. After her one year tour of duty in Korea, she says that she decided to stay in the Army and was stationed at bases and hospitals in the U.S., Germany and Japan and that she finally retired in 1970 while serving at Fort Benning in Georgia. Schiffman is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart assisted by Carol A. Habgood.

Date Issued:

2004-01-14T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

Korea (South) and Korea (South)

Subject Topic:

Career in military nursing, Military life, Nurses, Korean War, 1950-1953, Veterans, Women veterans, Korean War, 1950-1953, Korean War, 1950-1953, Participation, Female, Korean War, 1950-1953, Medical care, Mobile hospitals, and Surgery

Subject Name:

Schiffman, Jean, 1924-2014, Schiffman, Jean, 1924-2014, 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/m5zm5q