Interview of Hazel Percival on her twenty-three year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

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Description:

Hazel Percival talks about her twenty-three year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and says that she enlisted because it was the "thing to do" and that there was talk of nurses being drafted. She says she was first sent to Europe in 1943 and after World War II, to duty stations in several stateside hospitals as well as in Panama and South Korea. Percival shares memories of living in tents and Quonset huts, the ship convoy that took her to Scotland via Iceland and her first assignment in southern England, and says that her greatest adjustment to military life was getting used to having people around all of the time. Percival is interviewed by Marjorie Brown.

Date Issued:

1986-05-26T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

England, Panama, and Korea (South)

Subject Topic:

Career in military nursing, Military life, Foreign service, Foreign service, Foreign service, Barracks and quarters, World War, 1939-1945, Veterans, Women veterans, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, and Participation, Female

Subject Name:

Percival, Hazel, Percival, Hazel, United States, Army Nurse Corps, United States, Army, United States, Army, United States, Army, United States, Army, 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/m5dd7f