Dorothy M. Harrison talks about the life of Mildred Stutzenberger including her service in the American Red Cross during WWII
Dorothy M. Harrison describes the efforts of the Louisville Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League to collect and persevere the histories of its members and then talks about the life of Mildred Stutzenberger who served in the American Red Cross during World War II. Reading from local documents and an interview with Stutzenberger, Harrison talks about Stutzenberger first working in hospitals in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations and then transferring to club work at the Bengal Air Depot in India. According to Harrison, Stutzenberger also served in Guam and Saipan and with the occupation forces in Japan. Harrison also recounts Stutzenberger's retirement and later death from lung cancer.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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1983
- Contributors
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University of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries
- Subjects
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Stutzenberger, Mildred, 1918-1978
American National Red Cross
Women's Overseas Service League. Louisville Unit
World War (1939-1945)
Hospitals
Military participation--Female
Oral history
Retirement
Soldiers--Recreation
War work--Red Cross
Burma
India--Kolkata
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Speeches (compositions)
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:11:30
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 35103
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11872634
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