| Abstract |
Mrs. Moore, a native of Belhaven, N.C., comments on her early career as a U.S. Army nurse, particularly her duty during World War II. Of particular interest are her reminiscences of enlistment shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, arrival at New Zealand, duty in the Fiji Islands, and transfer to Calcutta, India. She comments on living conditions, medical treatment of soldiers, problems with the food in India, reenlistment, and post-war duty in Germany. |
| General note | Interviewer: Zara Anishanslin. Interview date: December 16, 1995. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Sarah Wahab Moore Oral History Interview (#OH0151), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Repository does not own copyright to the oral history collection. Permission to cite, reproduce, or broadcast must be obtained from both the repository and the participants in the oral history, or their heirs. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Sarah Wahab Moore. |
| Biographical note | Sarah Moore (b. 1919), the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Wahab of Belhaven, NC, graduated from Belhaven High School (1936) and attended nursing school at Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD (1938-1941). Moore joined the Army and was assigned to a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit, the 142nd General Hospital in Fiji (June 1942-September 1944) and later in Calcutta, India, where it took over from the 263rd General Hospital (October 1944-April 1945). She served in Augsburg, Germany (1953-1956), at Tripler General Hospital in Hawaii, where she got married [1956?], and retired from active duty at Fort Detrick in Frederick, MD, on January 1, 1965. |
