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1LT Marcia Allene Dake Oral History
Publication date: 18 July 2024
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title:
1LT Marcia Allene Dake Oral History
creator:
Dake, Marcia Allene (1923 May 22 - )
subject:
Army Nurse Corps
description:
The second of two interviews recorded with Marcia Allene Dake. Marcia A. Dake was born on May 22, 1923 in Bemus Point, New York. In 1944, she graduated from nursing school in the Cadet Nurse Corps and joined the Army Nurse Corps. She went to Fort Dix in New Jersey for boot camp in February 1945, then was assigned to Rhoads General Hospital in New York. From there, she was very quickly sent over to Seattle, Washington to ship out with the 317th General Hospital to Hawaii. Women with the 317th were put on detached service, so she went from Hawaii to Okinawa, Japan to build a hospital. Later in 1945, she was sent to Yokohama, Japan. She was on a ship in the harbor of Yokohama on V-J Day, and after that the 317th was broken up so she was sent to the 151st Station Hospital until February of 1946. While stationed there her brother, an Air Transport Command Pilot, was able to visit her. She was sent by troop train to Hokkaido, Japan to bring back wounded soldiers. She then returned to the states
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Driver, Wanda
date:
2008-06-17
type:
Moving Image
format:
MiniDV
identifier:
207.02; 2008.207
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
205675
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1945-46
rights:
Unrestricted