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PhM3 Maude Angeline Powers Oral History
Publication date: 13 August 2024
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title:
PhM3 Maude Angeline Powers Oral History
creator:
Powers, Maude Angeline (Gibson) (1924 September 29 - )
subject:
Navy WAVES
description:
Maude G. Powers (formerly Gibson) was born on September 29, 1924 in New York City, New York and grew up in Verona, New Jersey. After high school, she worked at an insurance company until she enlisted in the Navy WAVES in December 1944. She went to Hunter College for basic training at the start of 1945 and remained there for six weeks. After basic, she was sent to the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland to train as a nurse’s aid. From there, she was stationed at the Bainbridge Naval Hospital in Maryland as a pharmacist’s mate, mostly doing lab work and working at the blood bank. She remained there for the rest of her service, receiving her discharge in June 1946. When she left the service Powers had reached the rank of pharmacist’s mate 3rd class, and for her service she was awarded an American Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Scott, Kate M.
date:
2004-02-13
type:
Moving Image
format:
Hi-8
identifier:
752; 2004.752
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
073530
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1944-46
rights:
Unrestricted