Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977 Page: 39
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Murphy
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Cincinnati, Ohio, to visit my husband's sister Billie. Then
I went back to Boise and spent Christmas with my mother. I
had to report back to Fort Douglas, Utah, on New Year's Eve.
Then I had to . . . then they gave me my orders there,
and I passed through Boise on the train, because I remember
telephoning my mother and telling her I was passing through
Boise. She met me at the . . . she was up at the station,
and she saw me for a few minutes. I went up to Fort Lewis
. . . pardon me. I went to Fort Lawton in Seattle and was
there for about a week.
Then I got orders. . . of course, there was a group of
nurses; there must have been about twenty of us. We went
back on a liberty ship out of Seattle back to Hawaii.
Then when I got to Hawaii, I . . . because my husband
had gone to the Marianas, so I applied to the Marianas. So
I tried to go anywhere, and finally I got orders to go to Iwo
Jima. Really, I didn't particularly want to go to low Jima,
because he was on Guam. But I said, "Well, I'm going to Iwo
Jima," and then all of a sudden my orders were changed, and
they sent me to Saipan. By the time I got to Saipan, they
told me I was going to be stationed on Guam. So I don't know
who worked it out, but somebody arranged it so I'd be on the
same island as my husband.
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Murphy, Elizabeth. Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977, book, May 30, 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc98989/m1/41/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.