Oral History Interview with Mary Burkett, April 16, 2005 Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Oral History Interview with Mary Burkett, April 16, 2005

Creator

  • Interviewee: Burkett, Mary
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Interviewer: Tombaugh, John
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Interviewer: Van Meter, Peg
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War
    Place of Publication: Fredericksburg, Texas

Date

  • Creation: 2005-04-16

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Mary Burkett. Burkett completed psychiatry and nurse training at Indianapolis City Hospital in February of 1940. She volunteered and entered the Army in October of 1943. She was assigned to Ashford General Hospital in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. She was assigned to five different wards in the hospital and was assigned to care for the patients. She provides some detail of her experiences working on the neuro-psychiatric floor, and shares stories of some of her patients. She completed additional training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. She traveled on the USS Matsonia (ID-1589) to the South Pacific, and she provides some detail of her travels.
  • Physical Description: 9 p.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: People - Individuals
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Military and War - Wars - World War II
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Interviews
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Oral histories
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Personal narratives
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Autobiographies
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Biographies
  • Keyword: WWII
  • Keyword: United States. Army Nurse Corps
  • Keyword: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
  • Keyword: Military hospitals, American
  • Keyword: USAT Matsonia
  • Keyword: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- South Pacific Ocean

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Collection

  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War Oral History Collection
    Code: NMPW
  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War Digital Archive
    Code: NMPWA

Institution

  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
    Code: NMPW

Rights

  • Rights License: by-nc-nd
  • Rights Statement: Commercial use is prohibited without permission from the National Museum of the Pacific War.

Resource Type

  • Text

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: OH03783
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth1606431
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