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Mary Ann Koontz

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Army nurse Mary Ann Koontz worked in the psychiatric ward and when a new hospital was being built in Myitkyina, she designed her ward with an eye towards security. Many of the men she cared for were truck drivers who were stressed out by their long treks on the Burma Road. (2:39)

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When it came time to leave Burma, Army nurse Mary Ann Koontz had a rough jeep ride across way too much of India. She flew out of Karachi and got stuck for a week in Cairo, which was OK because of the sightseeing. When she got home, she married a soldier she had met in New Caledonia, a career military man. (3:17)

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Although she was never in danger from enemy fire, it was still a difficult life in Burma for Army nurse Mary Ann Koontz. The details of daily life became a problem in the jungle hospital where she worked. One day she saw Merrill's Marauders on their march out of Burma toward India. (2:08)

Mary Ann McMinn

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She thought it wasn't fair that the men had to go to Vietnam and the women did not, so Mary Ann McMinn joined the training program for Army nurses. That was a big help for her family struggling to pay for her university education. When the time came at the end of her training, she volunteered to go. (5:10)

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When Army nurse Mary Ann McMinn got to the 95th Evacuation Hospital in Da Nang, she found a close knit team of doctors, nurses and Navy Corpsmen. She was well trained but had never seen an amputee so, naturally, she was assigned to an orthopedic ward full of amputees. One of her main tasks was weening the patients off the addictive painkillers. (5:59)

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Mary Ann McMinn and her fellow nurses did some service in Vietnamese orphanages but they also used their down time to throw a party now and then. It was a close knit team and she still is in touch with some of them. (2:27)

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Coming home, there was the good, cars and stores full of goods, and then there was the bad. No one wanted to hear about Vietnam. Staying in the service helped Army nurse Mary Ann McMinn to keep an even keel when she returned from her tour. (3:55)

Mary D'Amico

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Mary D'Amico discusses the changing attitudes of the German soldiers in Cassino, Italy once the Americans seized control of the region over the Germans. She explains how they had to escape to the hills and build their own shelter to survive. (6:50)

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Civilian Mary D'Amico talks about what the town of Cassino, Italy was like after the bombing was over and the Americans had successfully cut off the German supply road between Rome and Naples. (1:19)

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Even after the Battle of Monte Cassino was over, the town was still a very dangerous place to live. Mary D'Amico was a young teenager at the time but remembers all of the post-war horrors and dangers of living in a recent combat zone. (1:19)