Agnes E. Flaherty, interviewed by Melissa Piselli, Part 1

Agnes E. Flaherty, interviewed by Melissa Piselli, February 22 and April 26, 2005, South Portland, Maine. Flaherty, born in Portland, Maine, talks about her parents, Anna and Mark Flaherty; her family’s involvement in nursing; enlisting in the military during WWII as a nurse in the Army Air Core; working out of Grenier Field in Manchester, New Hampshire; her experiences and favorite memories as a flight nurse; early medications; experiences with the Women’s Army Core (WAC); patriotism during WWII; serving in the Pacific as a flight nurse; working out of Hickam Air Field in Oahu, Hawaii; relationship between nurses and doctors then and now; G.I.’s teasing the nurses; transporting psychiatric patients; landings at Tarawa and Canto; experiences with patients suffering from head trauma; Elaine McCarty, a nurse during the Vietnam War; working at Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital; serving as president of the Maine State Nurses Assoc.; how nursing has changed since. Also included: WWII Flight Nurses Association Pamphlet; reservation request form for World War II Flight Nurses Association; mailed article “No Time for Fear”; pamphlet. Text: 33 pp. transcript, 3 pp. index, summary for interview #2, 38 pp. supplemental content. Time: 01:04:38 Listen: Part 1: mfc_na3327_cd0949_01Part 2: mfc_na3327_cd0949_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf144/1077/thumbnail.jp