Interview of Johanna Baskin Balla Butt on her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WWII and the Korean War Butt, Johanna Baskin Balla United States. Army United States. Army Nurse Corps Korean War (1950-1953) V-E Day (1945) World War (1939-1945) Armed Forces--Military life Families Medical care Military participation--Female Nurses Nursing--Study and teaching Recruiting and enlistment Veterans Women veterans Johanna Butt talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War Two and the Korean War. Butt says that she graduated from nursing school in 1943 and joined the Army that same year. She talks about treating wounded from Patton's Third Army in Europe, living in miserable conditions, being cold and not having enough to eat, V-E Day and finally being "separated" from the Army in February in 1946. She says that she was called up from the Army Reserves in 1951 for the Korean War and talks about being stationed in Japan with the 382nd General Hospital, the flood of casualties that came in from the fighting in Korea, returning to the States in 1954, teaching nursing, working as an Army recruiter in the Pacific Northwest and being turned down for service in the Vietnam war. Butt says she retired from the Army in 1970 and moved to Tucson, AZ to care for her mother and husband. Butt is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart. Stewart, Ruth F. Habgood, Carol A., 1940- Vincent Voice Library University of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries 2004-01-14 Sound Sound recordings Interviews 00:29:05 audio/wav audio/mpeg wosl:122 local:vvl:35375 DB35375 https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5n29sf7n English Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project 1939-1953 Europe Japan Europe (continent) North and Central America (continent)--United States (nation) North and Central America (continent)--United States (nation)--Northwestern United States (general region) North and Central America (continent)--United States (nation)--Arizona (state) Asia (continent)--Japan (nation) Asia (continent)--Korean Peninsula (peninsula) In Copyright