Interview of retired Colonel Mary Patricia Laughlin on her service as a nurse in U.S. Air Force and Army

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Description:

Retired Army Colonel Mary Patricia Laughlin talks about her childhood and education and her service as an U.S. Air Force nurse from 1951 to 1954 and as an Army nurse from 1963 to 1980. Laughlin says she was raised in Omaha and went into nursing because she didn't want to be a "teacher or secretary." After graduating from nursing school in 1946, she says that she worked in Seattle and Denver and other locations around the Midwest, before finally joining the Air Force in 1951, during the Korean War. She left the Air Force in 1954 and after working in various hospitals, joined the U.S Army in 1963 and was sent to Korea. Laughlin describes life and work in Korea and says that she was next sent to Japan and later worked in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Fairbanks, Alaska and Monterey, CA, where she retired in February 1980. Laughlin is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart and Carol A. Habgood.

Date Issued:

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

Korea (South) and Japan

Subject Topic:

Career in military nursing, Childhood and youth, Military life, Foreign service, Foreign service, Nurses, Korean War, 1950-1953, Veterans, Women veterans, Korean War, 1950-1953, Korean War, 1950-1953, and Participation, Female

Subject Name:

Laughlin, Mary Patricia, 1925-2008, Laughlin, Mary Patricia, 1925-2008, Laughlin, Mary Patricia, 1925-2008, United States, Air Force, United States, Army Nurse Corps, United States, Army, United States, Army, United States, and Army

Subject Genre:

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

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m55x2j