United States. Navy Nurse Corps

Oral history of Alita Marks, twenty year career in the Navy Nurse Corps

Job, Florence, CDR, USN, NNC, 1922-. Reminiscences of career in Navy Nurse Corps, 1944-1947; Includes youth in Schenectady, N .Y.; Graduated from Mt. Sinai Nursing School, XY.in l943; Joined the Red Cross, then the Navy Nurse Corps; Indoctrination, Portsmouth, Va.; Orders to St. Albans NH; Navy nurses teach corps­ men and do little hands-on nursing; Recreation; Orders to San Diego NH, 1944-1946; Recreation and Housing; Camaraderie of NNC; V:J Day; Left NNC; Graduated from Catholic University with B. S. in 1949; Public Health Nursing; Recalled to Navy During Korean War; Assigned to Newport NH and taught corpsmen, Bainbridge, Md.; Assigned to San Diego NH and taught corpsmen; Re­ceived MA from San Diego State University; Orders to Guam where headed in-service education program; Social life; Assigned toJapan as nurse in Dependants School; Travel inJapan; Orders to San Diego; Great Lakes service education and corpsmen detailer; Orders to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as Chief Nurse; Charleston S.C., Chief Nurse; USS REPOSE, Vietnam; Life aboard ship; Recreation; Received South Vietnam Medal of Honor; Assigned to Great Lakes Corps School; Head, Nursing Education Department; Retired in 1974; Moved to Newport, RI.; Patient Care Co­ordinator, Newport Hospital, 1974-1982; Member, Navy Nurses Association and New England Division.

Captain Maria Carroll, USN (Ret.) joined the Navy Nurse Corps in 1963 and remained on active duty until 1991. She served in USS Mercy during the Gulf War in 1991. She was Director of Nursing Services in Newport, RI, Long Beach, CA, Oakland, CA and aboard USS Mercy.

Smith, Norma Hall, 1922-. Reminiscences of service in the Navy Nurse Corps, 1944-1945; Includes youth in R.I., gradua­ tion from High School in 1939; Graduation from Pawtucket Memorial Hospital Nurses Training; Joined NNC in 1944; Indoctrination, Norlolk NH; Assigned to Newport NH and duties there; As­ signed to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii NH; V:J Day in Hawaii; Assigned to Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; Primitive living and working conditions; Met husband there; Discharged in 1946;Maniage, Nov. 1946; Part-time nursing; Various moves; Settled in Lincoln, RI.; Impact of service on life and posi­ tive comments on NNC.

Photograph album of VJ Day Parade in Honolulu, Hawaii, September 3, 1945 and other photographs of Hawaii; Two photographs of nurses and patients at Newport Naval Hospital, 1945; Imprints of Base Eight Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii, second Anniversary Edition, 1945, and Aloha booklet for those who served in Hawaii, 1941–1945; Resume of service in Navy Nurse Corps, 1944–1946.