Box 21
Container
Contains 23 Results:
Joanne Abbeglan account and newspaper article, 1969 February 20, 2003 April 15
File — Box: 21, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 12 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 542
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain the account of Joanne Abbeglan regarding her service in the U.S. Air Force Reserves as a lfight nurse during Vietnam War from 1967 to 1970. Account was collected as part of the Nurses at War Project. Talks about joining the Reserves, training at Hill Air Force Base, and flying between Japan and the Philippines. Discusses her different responsibilities and assignments, relationships with the medics and other crew members, meeting her husband in the Air Force, and the skills...
Dates:
Publication: 1969 February 20; 2003 April 15
Jodi K. Wilmert interview, 2004 May 21
File — Box: 21, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 16 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 1 File 532
Scope and Contents note
Materials include transcript of oral interview with Jodi K. Wilmert regarding her career as a nurse in the U.S. Navy during the Iraq War from 1999-2004. Interview was collected as part of the Nurses at War Project. Discusses military medical care developments on battlefield since the Gulf War. Discusses how mobile medical facilities and teams were set up. Describes treating many Iraqis hurt within first few days of invasion. Speaks of thankfulness of Iraqis and lack of anticipated hostility....
Dates:
2004 May 21
Gina Webb interview, 2004 March 24
File — Box: 21, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 16 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 1 File 538
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain an interview with Gina Webb regarding her service in the U.S. Navy during the Iraq War in 2001. Interview was conducted as part of the Nurses at War Project. Talks about joining the U.S. Navy in health care and deployment to Rhoda, Spain. Describes service in the war taking care of patients. Tells of one patient who died because of insufficient equipment. Also talks about returning home and the support received from family and friends. Dated March 24, 2004.
Dates:
2004 March 24
Irene Carr interview, 2003
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 15 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 1 File 537
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain an interview with Irene Carr regarding her service as a nurse in the U.S. Air Force from 1976-1978 and the U.S. Army during the Gulf War from 1990-1991. Interview was conducted as part of the Nurses at War Project. Bulk of text relates to her experiences in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Gulf War and her return to the United States. Also describes adjusting to civilian life again, becoming a midwife, and friendships that she kept with other nurses following the war....
Dates:
2003
Karen Hendrickson interview, 2004 January 9
File — Box: 21, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 15 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 1 File 539
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain an interview of Karen Hendrickson regarding her service as a nurse in the U.S. Army Reserve during the Gulf War from 1990-1991 as a part of the 365th Evacuation Hospital. Interview was conducted as part of the Nurses at War Project. Talks about becoming an RN and LPN. Also talks about joining the military and being mobilized for the Gulf War. Describes a blood clot that developed in her leg as a result of frequent flights to and from the front line and the effect the clot...
Dates:
2004 January 9
Pamela Jennings accounts, 2003 May 15
File — Box: 21, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 15 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 1 File 540
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain two accounts of Pamela Jennings' experiences in the U.S. Army and as a nurse and supply sergeant during the Gulf War. Accounts were collected as part of the Nurses at War Project. Talks about her interest in medicine and nursing and her decision to join Special Forces. Talks about training with the National Guard, serving at a clinic in Germany, and her service as an RN during the Gulf War. Describes the impact of her military career on her education and her patriotism....
Dates:
2003 May 15
Judith Little interview, 2004 October 25, 1991 October
File — Box: 21, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 15 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 1 File 541
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain an interview with Judith Little regarding her service as an RN in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps during the Gulf War in 1991. Describes her experiences in hospitals in the Persian Gulf, her nursing responsibilities and her tour through Aljibald, her feelings about war and Saddam Hussein, and her religion. Also includes an article written for the AORN (Association of periOperative Restered Nurses) journal in October, 1991 in which she discusses her nursing responsibilities, the...
Dates:
2004 October 25; Publication: 1991 October
Sherry Lee Brown memoir, 2003 June 29
File — Box: 21, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 15 Sub-Series 3 File 535
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain memoir of Sherry Lee Brown's experience as a Naval Reserve and Veterans Administration Hospital Nurse. Memoir was collected as part of the Nurses at War Project. Talks about development of Intensive Care treatment and the development of nursing and medical technologies. Discusses her education Went on a humanitarian mission to the Philippines and saw "more pathology" and problems than she had imagined. Describes her work on the U.S.S. Mercy during the Gulf War and her...
Dates:
2003 June 29
Shirley Jean Judd Degles memoir, approximately 2004
File — Box: 21, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 2 File 534
Scope and Contents
Materials contain the memoir of Shirley Jean Judd Degles regarding her service in the Cadet Corps as a nurse during World War II from 1942 to 1945. Memoir was collected as part of the Nurses at War Project. Discusses joining the Army Nurses’ Core and being assigned to Bushnell Army Hospital in Ogden, Utah. Describes treating and interacting with prisoners-of-war. Discusses living conditions and treatment by officers and authorities. Describes conditions of wounded soldiers who had been...
Dates:
approximately 2004
Gloria Cleona Longstroth Koncz memoir and photographs, 1945 June, 2003 February
File — Box: 21, Folder: 18
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 6 File 545
Scope and Contents
Materials contain a brief summary of Koncz's military and nursing service (2003). She enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served during World War II from June to December 1945. Served at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego, California and received the rank of Cadet. Discusses the training and exams that she had to pass. Also explains the types of patients that she worked with. Also included are photos of Gloria and her graduating class; Gloria and four other nurses (1945). Materials were...
Dates:
1945 June; 2003 February