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CDR Owedia Marie Searcy, NC USN Ret. Oral History
Publication date: 13 August 2024
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title:
CDR Owedia Marie Searcy, NC USN Ret. Oral History
creator:
Searcy, Owedia "Tweety" Marie (1923 June 6 - )
subject:
Navy Nurse Corps
description:
Owedia M. “Tweety” Searcy was born on June 6, 1923 in Venus, Texas. She enlisted in the Navy Nurse Corps in 1948 and served at various stateside stations until 1963, when she became the first Navy nurse anesthetist to serve in Vietnam. She was then sent to Saigon, Vietnam with five other nurses to commission a new Navy hospital in September 1963. She worked in the operating room and emergency room at this newly-commissioned 100-bed hospital until she returned to the United States in 1964 after a year overseas. She retired from the Navy Nurse Corps in 1968 after 20 years of service. When she left the service Searcy had reached the rank of commander, and for her service she was awarded a Navy Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Reborchick, Marcy
date:
2007-10-18
type:
Moving Image
format:
MiniDV
identifier:
1054; 2007.1054
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
081731
coverage:
Vietnam War (1964-1975) | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1948-68
rights:
Unrestricted