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

Description:

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

Subject Topic:

Childhood and youth, Knowledge, Nursing, Career in military nursing, Military life, Military life, Nurses, World War, 1939-1945, Veterans, Korean War, 1950-1953, Veterans, Women veterans, World War, 1939-1945, Korean War, 1950-1953, World War, 1939-1945, Participation, Female, Korean War, 1950-1953, Participation, Female, Military nursing, and Aviation nursing

Subject Name:

Gates, Mary Templeton, 1914-2005, Gates, Mary Templeton, 1914-2005, Gates, Mary Templeton, 1914-2005, Gates, Mary Templeton, 1914-2005, United States, Army Air Forces, United States, Air Force, United States, Army, United States, and Air Force

Subject Genre:

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

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5k98b