Interview of Hazel Percival on her twenty-three year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
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.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1986-05-26
- Interviewees
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Percival, Hazel
- Interviewers
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Brown, Marjorie
- Subjects
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Percival, Hazel
United States. Army Nurse Corps
United States. Army
World War (1939-1945)
Armed Forces--Barracks and quarters
Armed Forces--Foreign service
Armed Forces--Military life
Military participation--Female
Veterans
Women veterans
England
Korea (South)
Panama
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:06:15
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 33883
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11793221
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