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Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Donna Loring
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Donna Loring
MF144 Women in the Military
Donna Loring, interviewed by Mazie Hough and Carol Toner, June 19, 2001, in Augusta, Maine. Loring, age 53, talks about enlisting in the Army in the Vietnam War; her experiences of discrimination as a Native American in Maine; boarding school; taking an aptitude test after enlisting; basic training; her role as a member of the Signal Corps; the dangers of the job; rising through the ranks; the detachment of the Women’s Army Corps from the rest of the Army; women soldiers and weapons; leaving the base against orders; racism in the military; diversity within the W.A.C.; the psychological effects; leisure …
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Part 1, Donna Loring
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Part 1, Donna Loring
MF144 Women in the Military
Donna Loring, interviewed by Mazie Hough and Carol Toner, June 19, 2001, at the CATS Library in Augusta, Maine. Donna talks about enlisting in 1966; training in California and going to Vietnam; serving in the Military Occupational Specialty Signals Corps and as a soldier of the Women’s Army Corps. Text: 9 pp. transcript. Time: 01:20:59. Restrictions: None. Approval to release provided by James Francis of the Penobscot Historic Preservation Committee, 2024-02-23.
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Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Part 2, Donna Loring
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Part 2, Donna Loring
MF144 Women in the Military
Donna Loring, interviewed by Mazie Hough and Carol Toner, June 19, 2001, at the CATS Library in Augusta, Maine. Donna talks about enlisting in 1966; training in California and going to Vietnam; serving in the Military Occupational Specialty Signals Corps and as a soldier of the Women’s Army Corps. Text: 9 pp. transcript. Time: 01:20:59. Restrictions: None. Approval to release provided by James Francis of the Penobscot Historic Preservation Committee, 2024-02-23.
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Guide To The Davidson Family Papers, Mary Davidson Wagner
Guide To The Davidson Family Papers, Mary Davidson Wagner
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The Davidson Family papers include photographs taken and correspondence written during Ethel Helena Davidson's time as an American Expeditionary Force nurse in France during World War I and Frederick Arthur Davidson's time in the United States Army between the 1920s and 1950s. Also includes a scrapbook of Ethel's war experience and army records for each of them.
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