Interview of Janet A. Bachmeyer on her thirty-year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
Janet A. Bachmeyer talks about her thirty-year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from July 1944 to June 1974. Bachmeyer says she received her nurse's training at the Evangelical School of Nursing in Chicago and worked her way up the ranks in the military from staff nurse to chief nurse before she retired. She talks about her duty stations in Europe during World War II and others in postwar Germany, Korea and in Vietnam. Bachmeyer describes post housing, her uniforms, and her vivid memories of being in London on V-E Day and celebrating all night. Bachmeyer says that she hadn't intended to make the military a career but decided it was right for her after leaving active service for a couple of years. Bachmeyer also talks about her activities in retirement and her feelings about the WOSL. Bachmeyer 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
- 1986-04-21
- Interviewees
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Bachmeyer, Janet A.
- Interviewers
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Brown, Marjorie
- Subjects
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Bachmeyer, Janet A.
United States. Army Nurse Corps
United States. Army
Women's Overseas Service League
V-E Day (1945)
World War (1939-1945)
Armed Forces--Barracks and quarters
Armed Forces--Foreign service
Armed Forces--Military life
Military participation--Female
Nurses
Veterans
Women veterans
Asia
Europe
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:06:52
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 33939
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11794356
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