Documents Mattie Donnell Hicks's early life, service in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966, and post-war life in Greensboro, N.C. Hicks provides a brief description of her basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, in an integrated unit as well as complications at the hospital at Camp San Luis Obispo due to being in a segregated black unit. Toward the end of the interview she comments on the sense of family in the military and her adjustment to civilian work after more than twenty years of military service. Hicks also discusses traveling with the army and her many transfers to new bases. Subjects include Korea during the war and the damage done to the country; the type of work she provided in Korea and Japan while tending to military and civilian patients;and her social activities when stationed in Germany; and the different types of uniforms that she wore at various duty stations. Interviewed by Hermann J. Trojanowski on February 25, 1999.