| Title |
Mary Camilla Howe Sims, Midvale, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 22, 2004: Saving the legacy tape no. 650 |
| Alternative Title |
Mary Camilla Howe Sims, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Sims, Mary Camilla Howe, 1921-2010 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-03-22 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
New Guinea; Philippines; Wisconsin, United States |
| Subject |
Sims, Mary Camilla Howe, 1921-2010--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Biography; United States--Army Nurse Corps; World War, 1939-1945--Medical care |
| Keywords |
Nurses; Hospitals |
| Description |
Transcript (26 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Mary Camilla Howe Sims on March 22, 2004. This is from tape number 650 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Sims (b. 1921) was born in Darlington, Wisconsin, and received her nursing education at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. She joined the Army Nurse Corps in October 1943 and boarded the SS Lurline for New Guinea. She served at the 54th General Hospital for the duration of the war with the exception of a few months spent in the Philippines. She describes life on the island, her duties and activities, her post-war marriage, and talks about her children. 26 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
26 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6p28xd0 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Women in war; United States. Army Nurse Corps |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020046 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6p28xd0 |
| Title |
Page 7 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020025 |
| OCR Text |
Show M RY AMILL HOWE IM M R H 22 20 4 th line outside. During the night she partially awoke and saw an intrud r. h cr am d and screamed and screamed and woke the whole camp. Later, it was d termined that th intruder" was the pair of fatigues on the line. So let's see, where was I? We also removed and replaced many patients. Things moved fast. When we were admitting, we'd work at our own ward until we finished and then we'd go to our friend's ward down the hill. If she was still admitting, we would stay there and help for several hours. In order to reimburse us for this, the Army allowed us to have an ambulance and driver so we could go to a lake nearby on our free time. I went there and tried to learn to swim with not much luck. The natives built their thatched huts over the lake. The natives' floors were widely-spaced small sticks of wood, so you can imagine how sanitary that lake was. It was not sanitary, in fact. So, that sort of held off the swimming lessons. We had a lot of social life. All the girls were having a social life, having big dates all the time. We went out on dates, but our guard at our hospital, as we left, had to see that each of our escorts had a gun. He had to be armed. He had to have a pistol. We had that. He showed that and we went out. But when we went on some areas, we would be signing out and signing in. At one point, a friend and I decided we would like to see Manila. We hadn't seen civilization in a couple of years by this time, as you know. It was restricted food and so many things. We wondered how the other half of the world lived. So we snuck out with our friends to Manila. We arri.ved there and the fellows went on their way to their own quarters, to quarters where they had friends in the area. We looked for our own housing. There weren't any empty beds; there didn't seem to be. The beds we found finally were in storage in the basement, but there were no mosquito nets. Of course, during the night we were just practically eaten alive by the mosquitoes. We were 6 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6p28xd0/1020025 |
