Marcella Ryan Le Beau |
Marcella Le Beau [2004] | World War, 1939-1945
Army Nurse Corps
76th General Hospital
United States; England and Wales, United Kingdom; France; Belgium
First Lieutenant
SD
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In 1943 Marcella Le Beau had just finished her nurses training in her native South Dakota and was working at a hospital in Pontiac, Michigan, when she heard about the Armys need for nurses. A year later, she was camped out in a cow pasture in Normandy, in the wake of the D-Day invasion, on her way to Paris. That December she was in Liege, Belgium, where she and her comrades were told to open their Christmas presents ten days early, as the Battle of the Bulge had just begun and they might have to evacuate. She never encountered discrimination because of her background; in fact, when colleagues learned that her great-grandfather was a chief, they assumed she must be an Indian princess.
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