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Barbara Pathe Oral History Tape 1, Side B - Edited
Publication date: 13 August 2024
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title:
Barbara Pathe Oral History Tape 1, Side B - Edited
creator:
Pathe, Barbara (1918 August 13 - )
subject:
American Red Cross
description:
Tape 1 of 2, side 2 of 2. This is the edited interview audio. Barbara Pathe was born on August 13, 1918 in Cincinnati, Ohio. During World War II she wanted to enlist, but had bad eyes and wasn’t allowed to. Instead, she volunteered rolling bandages. She worked at a travel agency too, but was fired in December 1941 and saw the Red Cross as a good option. In May 1944, she was sent to American University and Georgetown University for 2-4 weeks of training. She was sent to St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York before she was shipped to Europe in a 54-ship convoy that also included the Canadian Air Force. London, England was being attacked with buzzbombs by the time they arrived, and because she wanted to be with the Clubmobile, she was assigned to Scotland to help deliver donuts and coffee to arriving troops. In England, she was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and 8th Airforce in Suffolk. From there, she was shipped off to France with the 7th Army, arriving in Le Havre in November and traveling to Paris. She worked in the 7th Army Communications Zone with several different groups, and was in France during the Battle of the Bulge. She moved into Germany with the 7th Army and traveled to Mannheim, Ludwighaffen, and Heidelberg. These travels included working with survivors of a prison camp that held 3,000 prisoners. She spent two years overseas, returning to the United States in 1946. After the war, she was a volunteer Archives Manager with the Red Cross, and in 1986 she was chairman of adult volunteers. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Driver, Wanda
date:
2003-05-23
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
724.01; 2004.724
source:
We Also Served | CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
627985
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1944
rights:
Unrestricted