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CPT Merilys E. Brown
Publication date: 17 July 2024
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title:
CPT Merilys E. Brown
creator:
Brown, Merilys E. (Porter) (1918 May 25 - )
subject:
Army Nurse Corps
description:
Merilys E. Brown (formerly Porter) was born on May 25, 1918 in Wilmot, South Dakota. She enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps in 1943, and after training was sent to England as an Air Nurse. This included serving as an Air Nurse on D-Day and during the Battle of the Bulge. She remembers wait for C-47s to return to Royal Air Force Greenham Common from Normandy. A few days later, she was one of the nurses making flights to Omaha Beach to evacuate the wounded. In December 1944, she flew back and forth during the Battle of the Bulge, dropping off American men who were new to the European front lines and evacuating those who had been wounded, and she remembers Buzz Bombs being dropped around them while loading and unloading the planes. She was discharged in 1945 having reached the rank of captain. For her service, she was awarded an Air Medal, Women’s Army Corps Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Unknown
date:
2008-05-30
type:
Moving Image
format:
DVD-R
identifier:
1217; 2008.1217
source:
SAFN | CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
012522
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1943-45
rights:
Unrestricted