Media Coverage
Mary Louise “Lou” (Jacobs) Ream in front of the hospital she helped set up in a converted school
Nurses in New Guinea
Website Links
https://www.ozatwar.com/
(Here is the section on the hospital the first 18 nurses set up at Gatton, Queensland, Australia:)
https://www.ozatwar.com/locations/153stationhospital.htm
Marie Woodward and Helen Gray mentioned in 1943 newspaper article about the 18 nurses.
Binghamton [New York] Press newspaper article (March 11, 1943).
Here's an article mentioning Marie Woodward and Ruth (Baucher) Blades (Denton [Maryland] Journal, 1-25-52, page 8).
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99377221/major-marie-woodwards-letter-from-new-g/
Marie Woodward visits my former Army nurse colleague, Ruth (Baucher) Blades I'm Maryland.
Photo of four nurses lunching with US Army Captain Dryfess (Great Falls Tribune, -2-27-42)
Photo caption correction
Date of Great Falls Tribune photo should be 12-27-42. Also, the Captain's last name is Dryfoos.
Irene Gabryolek and Helen Gray are among the American and Australian nurses who returned to New Guinea. (The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1942.
Mentions Mary Kravitz as 2nd Lieutenant since about July 1940 and her brother presumed one of two local men and 27 statewide captured by the Japanese on Wake Island in December 1941. (Baucher Times Leader, The Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 2-19-42
Mary Kravitz and her 17 nurse colleagues mentioned, along with confirmation that her brother is a POW.
