World war 2 nurse biography of america documentary

Who is better suited to tell history than the people who experienced it? Read firsthand accounts from soldiers who spent the terrible winter of on the front lines in Europe. Browse the faces of some who were at the Bulge. One of the hard things about working in a tent hospital was that cots were so low we had to kneel by each one to keep from bending over all the time.

Famous nurses in world war 2

Liege, Belgium was our next destination, and we were glad it was a building instead of tents. During the Battle of the Bulge, in December we were so close to the fighting the patients had to be evacuated. They were just about to evacuate us nurses when the Germans retreated, and we stayed. The casualties came in so fast, nurses had to start blood transfusions, which only doctors had done before.

Whatever needed to be done was done by everyone. There was no limit. I'll never forget those young patients, hurt so badly. I felt worse when I saw they were wearing a wedding ring. Crossing the English Channel in August was an experience I'll never forget. One hundred five nurses waited and waited on the dock, finally being told that all the cabins on the British ship were given out and we would sleep in the crews' mess hall, in the very bottom of the ship.

With the cheery words, "We know what jolly good sports the American nurses are," they hustled us aboard and down several wall-mounted ladders to E deck. We slept in three layers, "Upper" was hammock, "Middle" was on the crude wooden mess tables, and "Lower" was on the floor.