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LTJG Florence Marie House Oral History
Publication date: 30 July 2024
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title:
LTJG Florence Marie House Oral History
creator:
House, Florence Marie (Freese) (1921 July 20 - )
subject:
Navy Nurse Corps
description:
Side 2 of 2. Florence M. House (formerly Freese) was born on July 20, 1921 in Lowden, Iowa. Her nurse’s training partially led her towards enlisting in the Navy Nurse Corps in October 1943. Her fiancé was in he Long Beach Naval Hospital, which is where she was first assigned. After training, she went home on leave then returned west by train and was assigned as a hospital ward to the Treasure Island Naval Station in San Francisco, California. She served there until her discharge in May 1946 and met her husband afterwards while completing an externship in Chicago, Illinois. When she left the service House had reached the rank of lieutenant junior grade, and for her service she received an American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Honorable Service Pin. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Rosenkotter, Judy
date:
2004-05-21
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
454; 2004.454
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
043432
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1943-46
rights:
Unrestricted