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COL Agnes Esther Flaherty, USA NC Ret. Oral History
Publication date: 18 July 2024
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title:
COL Agnes Esther Flaherty, USA NC Ret. Oral History
creator:
Flaherty, Agnes Esther (1919 November 21 - 2008 September 20)
subject:
Army Nurse Corps Air Forces
description:
Agnes E. Flaherty was born on November 21, 1919 in Portland, Maine. She joined the Army Nurse Corps during World War II and was stationed at the Station Hospital at Grenier Field, New Hampshire. From there, she was assigned to serve throughout the Pacific theater as a flight nurse with the Army Air Forces. In this role, she cared for returning prisoners of war from the Philippines and saw firsthand the effects of starvation. She also remembers Marines who had figured out how many battles he would fight in before getting injured or killed. She was also apart of the first group of flight nurses to be decorated in the Pacific theater in 1945. After the war ended, she served a the 1125th Arm Hospital in Auburn, Maine for over two decades, and she was Chief Nurse there from 1968-1979. For her service, she was awarded an Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Army Overseas Service Ribbon, and Philippine Liberation Ribbon. Flaherty passed away in September 2008. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Unknown
date:
2013-02-06
type:
Moving Image
format:
DVD-R
identifier:
1221; 2013.1221
source:
SAFN | CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
030508
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945)
rights:
Unrestricted