Answering the Call: Nurses of Post 122
Synopsis
Answering the Call: Nurses of Post 122, allows readers to delve into, and better understand nurses´roles in the Pacific, European, and the China-Burma-India Theaters during World War II, the Korean, and the Vietnam War. Using a combination of nursing skills, compassion, and self-discipline, these brave women saved lives and comforted the dying. Nurses signed for duty wearing their best dresses and stockings. They came forward to serve, as their brothers had. Some enlisted looking for adventure and a paying job, all came to answer the call of their country. Each nurse who served did so voluntarily, and each nurse who joined the military found that her life was forever changed. Nurses found a world of tent hospitals and bombed out buildings. Many slept in rat infested living quarters in the tropics. Some struggled to stay warm in Alaska. Others sweltered in the New Guinea heat. The Nurses of Post 122 traded high heels for combat boots, dresses for uniforms, and learned to hold on tighter to helmets than they ever had to their pocketbooks.
Excerpt
...First we sent patients into surgery to be anesthetized and have burns debrided. Then we covered the burns with Vaseline gauze and covered the area with a plaster of Paris cast. Of course, maggots go into them, because of all the flies. Actually, that’s what the doctors wanted, but we nurses didn’t know that in the beginning. The idea was horrible to think about. Guys complained of itching. They didn’t know what was going on either, but when the cast came off the skin would be all pink and healed.” 1st Lieutenant Frances (Werley) Angermeier, ANC....
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