She is my aunt and I love her. She and my father served in the same theater. I was always so proud of both of them

Amazing video story - her vivid memory and "close to the surface" emotion give you a sense of what it was like to be there in that post-op tent.

What a wonderful reminder of the role women have played in our military over the years. This USNI oral history archive is incredibly important. I wish I had asked my own mother, a U.S. Navy nurse in Australia in WW II, for her stories.