At first US Army operational hospital in Australia, Orderlies Cicerello and Reynolds carry Murray, an Australian soldier from Libya.
This tells the story of a ship that snuck out of Pearl Harbor only to sink in the Battle of the Coral Sea. The nurses treated the only two survivors of 68 men on rafts, including William “Lil Will”, Seaman Second Class.Pearl Harbo
Missing information on Neosho book photo caption
Sailor's name is William A. Smith. Also, I meant to delete "Pearl Harbor" at end of sentence.)
Neosho Survivor's Final Resting Place
William Amos "Bud" Smith, Seaman Second Class
9/1/1922-8-29-2011
Lakeview Memorial Park
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Memorial ID: 193992804
www.findagrave.com
(You can visit his gravesite online and leave photos or comments or flowers by simply typing in the memorial id numbers and leaving everything else blank.)
William’s hometown paper reporting him missing in action. Thankfully he was found and rescued on May 17, two days after this report was pilublished!
USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor
This is the ship that brought the 18 nurses from New York City to Brisbane, Australia—U.S.A.T James Porter.
“A Woman’s War” is useful as a research tool to know where to ask for military records, etc. Not a good read like “Combat Nurses in World War II”. “War in the Pacific” is even more technical, useful to mean only for its section on McArthur.
This book has Major Edith Vowell, Army Nurse Corps, on 7 pages, including a description of her time in New Guinea, in her own words.
WW2 flag holder