Interview of Betty Vogel on her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WWII
Betty Vogel describes her youth and education and her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II. After graduating from the nursing program at Abbott Hospital in Minneapolis in 1942, Vogel says that she decided to join the Army after seeing Japanese atrocities depicted in a newsreel. She says that she was inducted in September 1943 and after training, was shipped out to Scotland in January 1944 on the USS Brazil. She says that she was later stationed at a hospital in Barford, England and that on D-Day the casualties came in so fast that they had no time to even clean them up. In July of 1944, Vogel says that she was sent to a hospital near Paris and treated American and German casualties from the Battle of the Bulge and actually married her husband Edward during that same battle. When she had earned enough points, Vogel says that she was sent back to the States and was discharged at Fort Sheridan, IL in December 1945. Vogel remembers being scared much of the time that she was in the field during the war and says that she doesn't believe that women belong in combat. Vogel is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart assisted by Carol A. Habgood.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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2003-10-23
- Interviewees
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Vogel, Betty, 1921-2005
- Interviewers
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Stewart, Ruth F.
Habgood, Carol A., 1940-
- Contributors
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University of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries
- Subjects
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Vogel, Betty, 1921-2005
United States. Army Nurse Corps
United States. Army
Battle of the Ardennes (1944-1945)
World War (1939-1945)
Armed Forces--Military life
Medical care
Military campaigns
Military nursing
Military participation--Female
Nurses
Veterans
Women in combat
Women veterans
England--Barford (Warwickshire)
Europe
France--Normandy
France--Paris
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:21:03
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 35427
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11890085
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