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Artifacts, National Sword of Burma with wooden scabbard and attached cane cord

 File — Textile box: 1, Item: 2
Identifier: WV 0096- File Item 2

Content Description

From the Collection:

19 June 1999 oral history transcript; Newspaper article photocopies: San Diego Union Tribune article from December, 1995 titled about her service as a WWII Army Air Force Evacuation Nurse; November 1995 titled "Flight nurses saved 40,000 in remote World War II theater" and The Bomber Newspaper from Bowman Field, KY, May 1943 article on Betty's Air Nurse Evacuation School Graduation with a copy of photograph of the graduating class ; copy of Book cover "No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War by Diane Burke Fessler; copy of "The Story of Air Evacuation 1942-1989"; various photographs of Betty during her services with the 803rd Air Evacuation Squadron in Chabua, India, 1943-1944; Dha (national sword of Burma)with a single edged- wide blade, with wooden scabbard and attached cane cord.

Dates

  • circa 1943-1999

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 3.21 Linear Feet (4 folders, textile box, artifact box )

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository

Contact:
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Greensboro NC 27402-6170 US
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