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CPT Dorothy E. Pecora Oral History Part 1
Publication date: 13 August 2024
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title:
CPT Dorothy E. Pecora Oral History Part 1
creator:
Pecora, Dorothy "Dotty" E. (Beavers) (1920 March 22 - )
subject:
Army Nurse Corps
description:
Part 1 of 3. Dorothy “Dotty” E. Pecora (formerly Beavers) was born on March 22, 1920 in Orient, Ohio. After finishing high school and nurse’s training, she enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps in February 1943. Her first assignments were in military hospitals in Ohio and Indiana, where she was stationed for just under a year. She was then assigned to the 30th Field Hospital and was sent overseas, landing in Belfast, Ireland and going to England to prepare to ship out to France. She married her husband on July 22, and then landed in France on July 23. Her unit provided support for General Patton’s 3rd Army, and she served primarily as a surgical and triage nurse. They first set up near Chartres, France. They took heavy shelling before the hospital was even complete, and once treated a man who had been hit only 300 yards away from the hospital. The 30th Filed Hospital traveled with the 3rd Army around Europe, including serving during the Battle of the Bulge, caring for people liberated from the concentration camps in Ebensee, Austria and Penig, Germany. She was in Europe for the rest of the war, returned to the United States, and received her discharge in January 1946. When she left the service Pecora had reached the rank of captain, and for her service she had been awarded a Bronze Star Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-Africa-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 5 battle stars, and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Reborchick, Marcy
date:
2008-08-28
type:
Moving Image
format:
Mini-DV
identifier:
1135.01; 2005.1135
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
202457
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1943-46
rights:
Unrestricted