Las Sabinas, Volume 21, Number 2, April 1995 Page: 3
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WW II REMEMBERED
by Frances P eveto Reid
In 1946 I was a new graduate from Hotel Dieu Nursing School in New Or-
leans, Louisiana. My first job was in surgery. Every day at the hospital there was
talk about the war in Europe and the Germans sinking our merchant ships.
Occasionally, one of our young doctors would come by in military uniform.
After Pearl Harbor was bombed, medical schools around the country started
organizing hospital units for the army. New Orleans had two medical schools,
Tulane and Louisiana State University Medical School.
Several of my classmates and I decided to join the L.S.U. Unit which would
be the 64th General Army Hospital. We were acquainted with most of the doc-
tors and nurses who were joining.
On July 15, 1942, we received orders to report to Fort Jackson, South Caro-
lina for basic training. My sister, Lou Ida, also a nurse, had joined the army July
29, 1941, and was stationed at La Garde General Hospital in New Orleans. She
requested a transfer to the 64th to be with me but did not join us until later.
We travelled first class as a group by train to Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
I mentioned first class because that was the only time we ever travelled first
class. Most of the time you were lucky to have a seat.
Our basic training was the usual drilling, marching and lectures. We were all
assigned duty in the base hospital. Once we were all ordered to report in dress
uniform to the parade grounds. Everybody was there. We were to march in re-
view for President Roosevelt. It was very impressive and we were proud to be
part of it.
Toward the end of the year we were granted leave to go home. We knew this
was to say good-bye to our families before going overseas.
My family had moved back to Orange, which at that time, was bustling with
wartime activities. Most of my family in Orange was involved in some way. My
father had planted a victory garden in the yard. One sister worked at the ration
board, and my baby sister was collecting scrap metal for a school project.3
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