MF144 Women in the Military

Document Type

Oral History

Interviewee name

Louine Lunt Connor Peck

Interviewer

Carol Toner, Mazie Hough

Interview date

8-16-2000

Interview location

Northeast Harbor, Maine

Time

00:40:09

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Abstract

Louine Lunt Peck, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, August 16, 2000, at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Peck talks about serving as a Second Lieutenant as a nurse in the Navy Nurses Corps from 1938 to 1941; serving in the Army Nurses Corps from 1943 to 1945; serving on the USAHS Acadia, which sailed to the Bay of Naples and Normandy. Text: 53 pp. transcript. Time: 01:34:39.

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Disciplines

Military History | Oral History | United States History | Women's History

Birth date

February 22, 1908

Location

Pembroke, Washington County, Maine

Death date

May 28, 2001

Location

Northeast Harbor, Hancock County, Maine

Nation of origin

United States

Home state/Territory

Maine

Gender

Female

Ethnicity

European-American

Occupation

Registered Nurse

Civic groups

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Branch of service

U.S. Army

Service Unit

USAHS John J. Meany, July 27, 1944-February 3, 1945; USAHS Acadia, March 15, 1945-July 25, 1945

Dates of service

Navy Nurse Corps, January 1, 1938-June 26, 1941; Army Nurse Corps, November 13, 1943-October 17, 1945

Date of entry

January 1, 1938

Service entry

Commissioned

Location of Service

Africa; Mediterranean; Adriatic; Sicily; Italy; France; Apennines; Rhineland

Awards & Ribbons

Army Meritorious Unit Commendation at Casablanca; European African Middle East Campaign Medal

Wars & Conflicts

World War II

Entry Rank

O-1 2nd Lieutenant

Highest Rank

O-2 1st Lieutenant

Exit Rank

O-2 1st Lieutenant

Locations

Kathi Jackson; Mary Rockefeller; General Ross T. MacIntyre; President Roosevelt; Evelyn Lunt; Second Lieutenant Meese; General Scott; Helen Flanagan [friend]; Evelyn Maynard [friend]; Truman; Nathaniel Benchly

Headings

Africa; Mediterranean; Adriatic; Sicily; Italy; France; Apennines; Rhineland; Pembroke, Maine; Mount Desert Island, Maine; Calais, Maine; Pearl Harbor; Hershey, Pennsylvania; Fort Mead, Maryland; Ellsworth, Maine; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Staten Island; STraits of Gibraltar; Hiroshima; Palermo; Orangeburg, New York; New Jersey; Newark; Bloomfield; Long Island; Syracuse, New York

Collection name

Women in the Military

Collection number

MF144

Item number

NA3221

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Louine Lunt Peck, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, Part 2

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