Oral history interview with Pauline Rogstad Allison, 2006

• Main Author: Allison, Pauline Rogstad
• Other Authors: Trojanowski, Hermann J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries 2006
• Subjects: World War; 1939-1945;United States. Navy > Women; World War II era (1940-1946); Navy > Navy Nurse Corps; Parris; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/WVHP/id/4313

Primarily documents Pauline Rogstad Allison's service with the Navy Nurse Corps during World War II, particularly her two years on a hospital ship in China; and her life after the war. Allison speaks chiefly about her service with the Navy Nurse Corps in the 1940s. She talks about her decision to join the military in November 1942; working at Parris Island, South Carolina, including nursing on the wards, duty shifts, and social activities; serving in Argentia, Newfoundland; the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois; working at the WAVES dispensary at the Naval Training School in Stillwater, Oklahoma; and a patient who had been seriously injured playing touch football. " Allison also discusses her service on the USS Repose in China from 1946 to 1948. She describes caring for troops and their families; living arrangements on the ship; recreation and social life, including meeting her husband, Bill Allison; outbreaks of meningitis and mumps; and pistol practice. Allison also comments on her uniform, leaving the navy after marriage, her husband's military career, other nursing jobs, and the impact that her navy service had on the rest of her life.