Interview of Elizabeth "Betty" Hulings Booker on her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WWII

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Description:

Elizabeth "Betty" Hulings Booker discusses her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War Two. Booker, who served with the 19th Field Hospital in the Persian Gulf, recalls her childhood and education at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing prior to enlistment and then shipping out by way of the Mediterranean Sea to a field hospital in Iran. Iran, she says was part of the route used to ship much needed supplies to Russia for use on the Eastern Front. She also talks about the excitement of mail call, the twelve hour shifts she worked caring for injured American and foreign troops, her feelings about army pay and food and feeling threatened by the excessive amount of attention she received as a woman during a rest and recreation trip to the Holy Land and the Caspian Sea. After the war, Booker says that she married and raised a family, used the G.I. Bill to earn a Master Degree and later taught Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. Booker is interviewed by Mary Meyers.

Date Issued:

1986-09-21T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

Iran, Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh

Subject Topic:

Childhood and youth, Knowledge, Nursing, Military life, World War, 1939-1945, Veterans, Women veterans, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Women, World War, 1939-1945, Medical care, World War, 1939-1945, Hospitals, Nursing, and Study and teaching

Subject Name:

Booker, Elizabeth, 1920-2004, Booker, Elizabeth, 1920-2004, Booker, Elizabeth, 1920-2004, United States, Army Nurse Corps, United States, and Army

Subject Genre:

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

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5qm6x