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Just saw a couple of folks reblog a post from @trekkiehood about the fact that John Egan's sister, Frances, was in the Army Nurse Corps during World War Two. Since it seems like people might be interested in learning a little more, @shoshiwrites helped me out with her research ninja skills.
We couldn't find a ton of details about Frances' actual service - her obituary only mentions that she trained at Holy Family Hospital in Manitowoc, was in the US Army Nurse Corps as a first lieutenant, and served in the Pacific Theater. An article from the Two Rivers Reporter in 1944 trying to increase interest in the US Cadet Nurse Corps mentions that she was one of several local women already enrolled in the armed services. Her husband's obituary mentions that they were both members of the 44th General Hospital unit in the Philippines. (I'll come back to what this means in a minute.)
Nearly 60,000 women served in as members of the US Army Nurse Corps, and another 11,000 as Navy nurses. I think it's important to remember that prior to the Japanese bombardment of Pearl Harbor, a placement in Hawaii at Tripler General Hospital, at Sternberg General Hospital in Manila, or at the Navy Hospital in Guam, would have been a pretty great job. Nursing was a tremendously underpaid profession in the 1930s - nurses would have completed several years of college before starting a residency program like the one Frances completed at Holy Family, where she would have been working terrible hours for room and board and essentially no pay.
Once she graduated, employment opportunities weren't great, either, since a lot of the labor a hospital would have needed was being supplied by those unpaid trainee nurses. Newspaper announcements let us know that she was elected the head of the Holy Family hospital alumnae group, and in 1942 was listed as a school nurse and health instructor. Joining the Army might have presented a way to get out of Manitowoc and maybe see a little bit of the world. (Army pay still wasn't great, but hey, you would have been in a tropical paradise!)
We often think of the Angels of Bataan, the 66 Army Nurses and 11 Navy nurses who were imprisoned by the Japanese after the fall of Corregidor, when we think about nurses in the Pacific theater, but they were really only a very small portion of a much larger group. Nurses in the Pacific were on general hospital duty in places like Tripler, serving as flight nurses on medical evacuation flights, or (in the case of the Navy) serving on board hospital ships. (For the HBO War crowd, we see some of these nurses in The Pacific when Leckie is evacuated.)
So, what is a 'General' hospital? This type of unit is stationary, operating out of a building or set of buildings that receives patients from a variety of sources, unlike a station hospital, which is attached to a specific military installation, or an evacuation hospital, which is usually mobile - the precursor to the MASH unit we might be familiar with from the TV show. The 44th looks to have been in Australia for a time and also on Leyte, in the Philippines. Her husband Theodore's gravestone indicates he was a Captain, and a member of the Quartermaster Corps, the part of the army responsible for maintaining and moving supplies. As a nurse and a first Lieutenant, Frances could have been disciplined if the person she was dating wasn't a fellow officer.
I wish I could share more details from her actual service, but there's only so much you can learn from digitized documents on the internet on a Tuesday.
If anyone is interested in learning more about Army nursing in general during this period, I always recommend And If I Perish: Frontline Nursing in World War Two, by Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, and GI Nightingales, by Barbara Brooks Tomlin.
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Yes, I haven't finished [Harvard]. So the fuck what?
- All right, Web, breathe a little, Jesus. Fuck. It's just the way you always talked, you know? We all figured that… Hey, you know what? You're right. So the fuck what?
David Webster & Joe Liebgott in
BAND OF BROTHERS (2001)
↳ Part Nine: Why We Fight
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"Major Winters know about this? ... What if this guy's just a soldier?... What if he's innocent?"
"You think he's a soldier like you and me? Fuckin' innocent German officer? Where the hell have you been for the past three years."
JOE LIEBGOTT and DICK WINTERS
Easy Company Dynamics 2/? | Band of Brothers