No Time for Fear summons the voices of more than 100 women who served as nurses overseas during World War II, letting them tell their story as no one else can. Fessler has meticulously compiled and transcribed more than 200 interviews with American military nurses of the Army, Army Air Force, and Navy who were present in all theaters of WWII. Their stories bring to life horrific tales of illness and hardship, blinding blizzards, and near starvation—all faced with courage, tenacity, and even good humor. This unique oral-history collection makes available to readers an important counterpoint to the seemingly endless discussions of strategy, planning, and troop movement that often characterize discussions of the Second World War.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Senator Daniel K. Inouye
- Foreword by Colonel M. Irene Clark Woodman
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Chapter 1. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: “Like rats in a trap.”
- Chapter 2. Pacific Theater of War: “You can see what men are made of when you get them freshly wounded.”
- Chapter 3. Japanese Internment Camps, Philippines: “You don’t know what freedom is until you lose it.”
- Chapter 4. China, Burma, and India: “Culture Shock”
- Chapter 5. North Africa, Sicily, and Italy: “90 mm shells would zoom right over the hospital.”
- Chapter 6. England: “Buzz bombs, blackouts, and barrage balloons”
- Chapter 7. France: “Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge”
- Chapter 8. Germany: “V-E Day”
- Chapter 9. Russia: “The Eastern Command”
- Chapter 10. The 166th General Hospital: “Raining again”
- Chapter 11. Snap Shots: “You never know what will happen when you join the service.”
- Chapter 12. The War Ends: “I can’t express how I felt when I heard it was over.”
- About the Author
- Further Reading
- Index
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