Pearl A. Domma Interview (2007)
World War II Oral Histories
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Interview
Place Covered: Cheddar, England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 2007-11-01
Duration: 00:56:56
Subjects: Domma, Pearl A. | World War II | Military | Veterans | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives | United States. Army | Military nursing | NURSES | Women | Camp Shelby (Miss.) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe | Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944 | Prisoner of war | Taylor, Maxwell D. (Maxwell Davenport), 1901-1987
Contributors:
- Lefebvre, Marian Interviewer
- Domma, Pearl A. Interviewee
Description
An oral history interview conducted on November 1, 2007, with Pearl A. Domma, an Army Nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital during World War II. She discusses: training and working at Camp Shelby in Mississippi for 17 months; living with an English family for 4 ½ months while training in Cheddar, England; arriving in Normandy six days after the D-Day invasion; following the troops of the 1st and 9th Armies through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany; serving the British 2nd Army during Operation Market Garden in Holland; caring for General Maxwell Taylor after he sustained a leg injury; treating German prisoners of war; meeting an American prisoner of war from Louisiana while in Germany; her promotion to First Lieutenant; going home at the end of the war; experiencing an air raid during a trip to London; and the primitive living conditions of the doctors and nurses at the hospital. She also shares photographs and her medals from World War II.