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Helen Louise Colony Oral History
Publication date: 17 July 2024
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title:
Helen Louise Colony Oral History
creator:
Colony, Helen Louise (Thompson) (1916 March 4 - )
subject:
American Red Cross
description:
Helen L. Colony (formerly Thompson) was born on March 4, 1916 in Cincinnati, Ohio. While apart of the Red Cross during and after World War II, she served overseas in the China-Burma-India Theater. She left that theater on The Randolph, a Coast Guard ship, which had Polish adults and children who were exchanged POWs. The Randolph brought these people to Wellington, New Zealand. While on the way, many of them got sick while at sea, and she and the other Red Cross-ers helped doctors care for them the rest of the way to New Zealand. Once they got there, the ship was cleaned and took on War Brides and 100 small babies, along their way to San Diego, California, they also picked up ambulatory and psychic patients from Guadalcanal and the Pacific Islands. They continued to care for sick patients on the way to San Diego. Her final assignment was ten trips on the Queen Mary to bring over around 20,000 War Brides and their children from around the British Isles. She remembers one of the children passing away while they were enroute to the United States. She left overseas Red Cross duty in 1946. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Reborchick, Marcy | Knaff, Donna
date:
2007-11-11
type:
Moving Image
format:
Mini-DV
identifier:
1092; 2007.1092
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
094665
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1946
rights:
Unrestricted