My mama and daddy were in WWII, both ETO. Mama met Daddy in Ireland when he was severely ill with pneumonia. She was his nurse. He was in the hospital for 30 days, and they got to know each other well. They married several years after the war and had a very happy, long life together. They are also buried together at Ft. Snelling military cemetery. They share a single grave and a single headstone; each has their service information on one side of the headstone. They were a rare breed, and fantastic parents to my sister and me. God rained down blessings on us, giving us Mama and Daddy. They were---and are---just the best.
The nurses today, with their ticktock dancing, politicized flu treatments...how utterly shameless. I know several great nurses who lost their careers by not participating.
My father was in the 82nd airborne at the end of ww2 till the end of the Korean war. Passed away at 90 a few years ago. He was so humble about his service. Im so proud of him. Airborne training alone was impressive to me!!
A great one from the greatest generation! Thank you for doing your duty and treating your patients wether friend or foe with respect. You're a credit to your profession!
What a wonderful interview! My late wife was an RN, and she was exactly the kind of nurse that “Peaches” was. She was wonderfully skilled, and she had the kind of caring personality this lady tells us she had too.
Thank you Nurse Mark for selfless devotion and care to our WW2 GI's and the many other patients you lovingly and compassionately cared for. May Almighty God greatly bless you!
What a lovely woman. What a wonderful nurse. I am so glad those servicemen had her to care for them. She sounds like she would have been a great, calm mum, as well. I would have loved her as a mum. I think she would have been a great friend, too. She was very pretty, too. Reminds me a little of the Queen, at the time of WW2.
Thank you for your service to all the boys during the war! Especially that extra TLC that you gave to them, I’m sure that made a difference in everyone you cared for. The S.S. United States is currently docked here in Philadelphia,PA. Where I live. It’s at a dock In south Philadelphia and it’s in desperate need of restoration.
Thanks for sharing this history- it’s so important that we gather and protect everything we can. It’s a wonderful way to honor these people. My grandmother was from NYS and one of the assistant nurses at Camp Atterbury during WW2. She met my grandfather there, he was an anesthetist, from Ohio. He’d joined the army to “see the world” and instead got ordered next door to Camp Atterbury in Indiana for the duration. 😂 Not exactly the type of adventure he was hoping for, but a lot came from it. 6 children (one died as a newborn) and then I’ve lost count of grandkids, let alone great-grandkids and even a few great great grandkids. Wild to think how life happens.
During the Viet Nam war, my back was broken in three places, and I was always thankful for the ward nurse who would give me a back rub every other day.
My mum trained as a child’s nurse in 1944 in the U.K. she looks after the burn victims of aircrew , after the war, she worked in Dr Barnardos Home. This little boy called Roger kept on crying. His mother had an affair with American when her husband came home. He said that that B goes or I go., she got her foster mother to adopt this little boy. He had a wonderful childhood. he died a few years ago of dementia. his original brothers and sisters got in contact with him. He didn’t want to really, but he did it for there benefit. They had a terrible childhood.
A few thoughts... My mother was an RN for 32 years. She is retired now and just turned 80. The way that this nurse speaks about not being 'GI' sounds similar to what my mother would call a 'sour apple' (The unpleasant things in life we have to do, or the unpleasant things that end up happening to us that we have to deal with, is like eating a sour apple....the difference is, is there someone there to give you a little bit of sugar). I had 12 years in the Canadian Forces and the way it was explained there is 'having to eat a shit sandwich'.... Anyhow, I like their less crass definitions and even more, I like that they are both of the same material. I think they both could teach a course on how to be a nurse. Not necessarily the training of nurses - but teaching nurses how to 'nurse'. I was recently in hospital and although I received modern medical care (and I am grateful) I was very much GI'ed. I concede that a big reason that the staff was 'sour apple' might very well have been tough working conditions and being overworked and understaffed - and I can forgive that, but this interview makes me wonder if there is more to medical care than just the science and manpower - anyhow that is a convo for another time. Raymond, thankyou for what you have done (and, I hope, what you continue to do) Your channel is great! Cheers!
@@raymondmcfalone26 So this whole time, every video that I have watched, every interview of yours that I have seen.....was done by a fellow countryman? I might have known..... I knew you had character, great to meet you!
Joe - we largely focused on the veterans of the 390th. Bob never popped up on their base. But Glenn Miller performed at the base just before his plane went down in the channel.
Thank you for your comment. A little secret: Ruth is part of my wife's family (her father's cousin). Ruth was very kind and intelligent. She was an amazing person to know. Thank you for watching. Raymond
I knew a retired nurse from England, who was a 1st year trainee in 1943. She told of a huge formality. A ridiculous self importance where a trainee nurse would be terrified of senior staff. Each year senior was more and more 'important' As the youngest trainees, they entered last in the mess, who had to stand when senior staff left the mess, who had sat on a dais, to emphasise their importance. They were terrified of 'sisters,' let alone matrons, only one sister was seen as gentle and kind and calm, and if there was a problem, they were terrified if she was not on duty. And even though she was very gentle and kind, they would never have dreamed of speaking to her, casually. The nice sister had married a bomber pilot and and lost him within a month of marriage. She did not marry again, for 5 years, well after the war, but to a man with the same christian name, which must have been odd.
@@Svoboda1234Oh sorry for not replying. 9 out of 10 times I get no indication of like or reply, from useless yt. I don't think she did. She died a good few years ago. Just kept shrinking and curling up, like a dry leaf. She would have been in first year of nursing in late 42/early 43? Sadly, only a handful left, these days.The widow of the pilot had remarried and had 2 sons and knew I was looking for her, but did not want to dwell on her loss. Which really saddened me, because I would have been SO happy that someone wanted to remember my old love. What is really sad, is her husband has 2 photos supposedly him. One, I am sure looks more like an American uniform and he is VERY A or B grade movie star looks, whereas the other has the facial structure that usually goes with jockeys or very thin, very tall men - and I do have a remark that he was surprisingly short, for a bomber pilot, (but very gifted, perhaps why he got through), but I cannot get any expert to give me an answer, to be able to refute the claim of the movie star looking chap. I have only found one relative by marriage to his Australian family, none of whom, alive now, saw him or were alive when he was, and she is so clueless, she thinks it is likely just a photo at a different angle. One looking like a Cary Grant cross and the other looking more like Nicholas Lyndhurst!!! Because the sad thing is, one of the lads is forever misidentified. Not even UNidentified, but forever identified as a totally different man, I suspect not even same air force.
Well you landed is a brilliant city. Liverpool is one of the friendliest .. England had been @ war since 1939 And bombed none stop The greatest generation..
My mama and daddy were in WWII, both ETO. Mama met Daddy in Ireland when he was severely ill with pneumonia. She was his nurse. He was in the hospital for 30 days, and they got to know each other well. They married several years after the war and had a very happy, long life together. They are also buried together at Ft. Snelling military cemetery. They share a single grave and a single headstone; each has their service information on one side of the headstone. They were a rare breed, and fantastic parents to my sister and me. God rained down blessings on us, giving us Mama and Daddy. They were---and are---just the best.
Thank you for sharing your family story and thanks for watching.
Did she keep a journal? I'm doing a PhD dissertation on the Army Nursing Corps in the European Theater :)
I've been an R.N. for almost 33 years, and I'm so proud to share a profession with this woman.
The nurses today, with their ticktock dancing, politicized flu treatments...how utterly shameless. I know several great nurses who lost their careers by not participating.
Army nurses: Angels of mercy and tough as nails.
Nurses.Grit,compassion all wrapped into one person.
What an outstanding human being! The nursing profession will always benefit from having people like Ruth in its ranks.
My father was in the 82nd airborne at the end of ww2 till the end of the Korean war. Passed away at 90 a few years ago. He was so humble about his service. Im so proud of him. Airborne training alone was impressive to me!!
Thank you for your service, Nurse Phelps.
Such a pleasant lady. One of the better interviews I have seen. God bless her for her service.
A great one from the greatest generation! Thank you for doing your duty and treating your patients wether friend or foe with respect. You're a credit to your profession!
This interview is a real gem. Thanks for sharing the stories of the greatest generation.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wise, compassionate and kind person. Wonderful nurse. Thank you for your service.
Thanks for this, my mother was a nurse during the war in what is now the Taledega raceway. She helped gI s and german POWs as well
What a wonderful interview! My late wife was an RN, and she was exactly the kind of nurse that “Peaches” was. She was wonderfully skilled, and she had the kind of caring personality this lady tells us she had too.
Thanks again for priceless history.
Thanks for listening
Thank you Nurse Mark for selfless devotion and care to our WW2 GI's and the many other patients you lovingly and compassionately cared for. May Almighty God greatly bless you!
Please. MORE videos of the wonderful women who did so much in war. Their stories need to be told! Thank You.
Watched the whole video. So interesting! Great interview ❤
I can't wait to watch this. This channel is excellent.
Hope you enjoy it!
What a lovely woman. What a wonderful nurse. I am so glad those servicemen had her to care for them. She sounds like she would have been a great, calm mum, as well.
I would have loved her as a mum. I think she would have been a great friend, too.
She was very pretty, too. Reminds me a little of the Queen, at the time of WW2.
Wow, what a marvelous lady. A life well lived. Thank you for your service madam.
Another outstanding video in the series!! Thanks Ray!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank You for your service Mam
I have had many fantastic nurses in private hospitals. They are real angels of mercy. They are a special breed.
Kudos to all these great Nurses no matter their affiliation! They all deserve medals. Thanks. Dennis
That was a great interview. This is the first one I heard on the nurse corps. It was really interesting to hear what went on. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching. Raymond
Thank you for your service to all the boys during the war! Especially that extra TLC that you gave to them, I’m sure that made a difference in everyone you cared for.
The S.S. United States is currently docked here in Philadelphia,PA. Where I live. It’s at a dock In south Philadelphia and it’s in desperate need of restoration.
a great book to read about this: "A Band of Angels"
missed this one thanks for posting
A true and gifted healer!
Ive only listened for a few minutes, but I can already here my fokes talking! Love these stories.
Thanks for this great interview. I’ve often wondered about those who cared for the injured and what it was like for them.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing this history- it’s so important that we gather and protect everything we can. It’s a wonderful way to honor these people. My grandmother was from NYS and one of the assistant nurses at Camp Atterbury during WW2. She met my grandfather there, he was an anesthetist, from Ohio. He’d joined the army to “see the world” and instead got ordered next door to Camp Atterbury in Indiana for the duration. 😂 Not exactly the type of adventure he was hoping for, but a lot came from it. 6 children (one died as a newborn) and then I’ve lost count of grandkids, let alone great-grandkids and even a few great great grandkids. Wild to think how life happens.
This comes past in my yt 'feed' regularly. Every time I see her photo, I am reminded of the Queen, in uniform, during WW2.
During the Viet Nam war, my back was broken in three places, and I was always thankful for the ward nurse who would give me a back rub every other day.
My mum trained as a child’s nurse in 1944 in the U.K. she looks after the burn victims of aircrew , after the war, she worked in Dr Barnardos Home. This little boy called Roger kept on crying. His mother had an affair with American when her husband came home. He said that that B goes or I go., she got her foster mother to adopt this little boy. He had a wonderful childhood. he died a few years ago of dementia. his original brothers and sisters got in contact with him. He didn’t want to really, but he did it for there benefit. They had a terrible childhood.
God bless her an earthly angle
A few thoughts...
My mother was an RN for 32 years. She is retired now and just turned 80. The way that this nurse speaks about not being 'GI' sounds similar to what my mother would call a 'sour apple' (The unpleasant things in life we have to do, or the unpleasant things that end up happening to us that we have to deal with, is like eating a sour apple....the difference is, is there someone there to give you a little bit of sugar).
I had 12 years in the Canadian Forces and the way it was explained there is 'having to eat a shit sandwich'....
Anyhow, I like their less crass definitions and even more, I like that they are both of the same material.
I think they both could teach a course on how to be a nurse.
Not necessarily the training of nurses - but teaching nurses how to 'nurse'.
I was recently in hospital and although I received modern medical care (and I am grateful) I was very much GI'ed. I concede that a big reason that the staff was 'sour apple' might very well have been tough working conditions and being overworked and understaffed - and I can forgive that, but this interview makes me wonder if there is more to medical care than just the science and manpower - anyhow that is a convo for another time.
Raymond, thankyou for what you have done (and, I hope, what you continue to do)
Your channel is great!
Cheers!
Thanks James. Always great to hear from a fellow Canadian (Born in Toronto but now live near San Francisco).
@@raymondmcfalone26 So this whole time, every video that I have watched, every interview of yours that I have seen.....was done by a fellow countryman?
I might have known.....
I knew you had character, great to meet you!
My grandmother was one of the first African American nurses. God Bless all these heroes 🙏🏽 🙌🏾 ❤️
A Very Wise Woman
well done Ray.
i just now thought of a great question, "Did you ever see Bob Hope perform?"
Joe - we largely focused on the veterans of the 390th. Bob never popped up on their base. But Glenn Miller performed at the base just before his plane went down in the channel.
God bless her ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Was very interesting listening to this lady
Thank you for your comment. A little secret: Ruth is part of my wife's family (her father's cousin). Ruth was very kind and intelligent. She was an amazing person to know. Thank you for watching. Raymond
I love your interviews. I don't care for the funeral music though.
I knew a retired nurse from England, who was a 1st year trainee in 1943.
She told of a huge formality. A ridiculous self importance where a trainee nurse would be terrified of senior staff. Each year senior was more and more 'important' As the youngest trainees, they entered last in the mess, who had to stand when senior staff left the mess, who had sat on a dais, to emphasise their importance.
They were terrified of 'sisters,' let alone matrons, only one sister was seen as gentle and kind and calm, and if there was a problem, they were terrified if she was not on duty.
And even though she was very gentle and kind, they would never have dreamed of speaking to her, casually.
The nice sister had married a bomber pilot and and lost him within a month of marriage. She did not marry again, for 5 years, well after the war, but to a man with the same christian name, which must have been odd.
Did she keep any type of journal? I'm doing a PhD dissertation on the Army Nursing Corps in the European Theater
@@Svoboda1234Oh sorry for not replying. 9 out of 10 times I get no indication of like or reply, from useless yt.
I don't think she did. She died a good few years ago. Just kept shrinking and curling up, like a dry leaf. She would have been in first year of nursing in late 42/early 43?
Sadly, only a handful left, these days.The widow of the pilot had remarried and had 2 sons and knew I was looking for her, but did not want to dwell on her loss. Which really saddened me, because I would have been SO happy that someone wanted to remember my old love.
What is really sad, is her husband has 2 photos supposedly him. One, I am sure looks more like an American uniform and he is VERY A or B grade movie star looks, whereas the other has the facial structure that usually goes with jockeys or very thin, very tall men - and I do have a remark that he was surprisingly short, for a bomber pilot, (but very gifted, perhaps why he got through), but I cannot get any expert to give me an answer, to be able to refute the claim of the movie star looking chap.
I have only found one relative by marriage to his Australian family, none of whom, alive now, saw him or were alive when he was, and she is so clueless, she thinks it is likely just a photo at a different angle.
One looking like a Cary Grant cross and the other looking more like Nicholas Lyndhurst!!!
Because the sad thing is, one of the lads is forever misidentified. Not even UNidentified, but forever identified as a totally different man, I suspect not even same air force.
What a wonderful non GI nurse.Wish you had been miner,but thanks all the Same.A kiss on your forehead.
Well you landed is a brilliant city.
Liverpool is one of the friendliest ..
England had been @ war since 1939
And bombed none stop
The greatest generation..
I wish so much I could have been part of this generation instead of the one I'm part of
Damn shame what became of nursing over the years!
One smart womam