2018 Genealogy Fair Session 6 - America's Military Made the Call: Hello Nurses!
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Channel: US National Archives · 2018 · Education
During war and peacetime, military nurses tended to the medical needs of the United States Armed Forces stateside, overseas, and on the front lines. This presentation will provide brief histories of the Navy Nurse Corps and Army Nurse Corps, useful finding aids, and how to request records. The Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) of Army and Air Force Nurses may have been lost, burned, or damaged in the 1973 National Personnel Records Center fire. Fortunately, the National Archives at St. Louis houses non-OMPF records that may supplement the deficit the fire caused. The National Archives collection of Navy Nurse Corps and Army Nurse Corps records contain genealogy rich content of place & date of birth, photographs, handwritten letters and typed correspondence to friends and families, awards and citations earned, job duties, facts pertaining to a death in service/killed in action, and beneficiaries. Presented by Anna Csar, Expert Archives Technician at the National Personnel Records Center ⇒ Handouts: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair ⇒ Event Evaluation Form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KYREventEval ⇒ Transcript taken from the captioning is available after the event and upon request to [email protected].
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