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Box 25

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Margaret May memoir, 2002 December 19

 File — Box: 25, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 1 File 629
Scope and Contents Donated to the Nurses at War Project, contains a memoir of Margaret May, who served as a nurse in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1942 to 1945. Talks about going to nursing school and all of the work that involved. Talks about joining the Navy and taking care of wounded soldiers from the Pacific. Describes how doctors took care of their burn patients- by placing maggots on the wounds for several days to eat the dead skin. Discusses the psychiatric training that she received and...
Dates: 2002 December 19
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II / Saints at War Project records for the United States Medical Corps / Saints at War Project records for the United States Navy Medical Corps

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