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000003187 02470 $$2Collection name$$aOHSU Oral History Program
000003187 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.6083/M4WS8S0C
000003187 02470 $$2Collection number$$a2018-001
000003187 037__ $$aDA
000003187 041__ $$aeng
000003187 245__ $$aInterview with Ruby Hills, Katherine Fisher Hilterbrant, and Edith Moore Richards
000003187 260__ $$bOregon Health & Science University$$c1998 April 11$$010958
000003187 269__ $$a1998-04-11
000003187 336__ $$aInterview
000003187 520__ $$aThree nurses share their memories of the years they spent in military service with the 46th General Hospital during World War II. Ruby Hills, Kay Fisher Hilterbrant, and Edith Moore Richards were all working at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Portland when Col. J. Guy Strohm, urologist at the University of Oregon Medical School (UOMS) and WWI veteran, received orders to assemble a volunteer unit in 1940. For two years before they were called up, the unit attended lectures and classes at UOMS to learn about the various conditions and diseases they might encounter in battle, and to become familiar with Army procedures. In July of 1942, the unit was sent to Fort Riley, Kansas, to begin preparations for a possible mobilization overseas. The call came in August 1943, when the unit left Kansas for Oran, Algiers. Thirteen months later, the unit was moved to Besan_紀n, France for the remainder of the war. The women together describe the long trip home on the liner Vulcania, and their return to civilian life. Finally, they share their impressions of Col. Strohm and explain the importance of the unit flag, which was subsequently donated to OHSU Historical Collections & Archives.
000003187 540__ $$fCC BY-NC
000003187 542__ $$fIn Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
000003187 610__ $$aUnited States. Army. General Hospital, 46th$$010890
000003187 650__ $$aHospitals, Military$$020347
000003187 650__ $$aMilitary Medicine$$022314
000003187 650__ $$aMilitary Nursing$$022315
000003187 691__ $$aOregon Health & Science University. School of Nursing$$010640
000003187 7102_ $$aOregon Health & Science University$$010958
000003187 720__ $$7Personal$$aHills, Ruby$$eInterviewee$$010422
000003187 720__ $$7Personal$$aHilterbrant, Kathryn (Kathryn D. Fisher)$$eInterviewee$$010423
000003187 720__ $$7Personal$$aRichards, Edith Moore$$eInterviewee$$010738
000003187 720__ $$7Personal$$aWeimer, Linda$$eInterviewer$$041838
000003187 8564_ $$9f9264ad2-f688-4c89-9335-a57b2cb950ca$$s160451$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3187/files/oralhist_18.pdf
000003187 901__ $$aOral histories are considered historical materials. They are the personal recollections and opinions of the individuals involved and, therefore, may contain offensive language, ideas or negative stereotypes reflecting the culture or language of a person, period or place. Oral histories should not serve as the sole source of information about an institution or particular historical events. These narratives should in no way be interpreted as the official history of Oregon Health & Science University, nor do they necessarily represent the views of the institution.
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000003187 980__ $$aOral History Collection