MF144 Women in the Military
Document Type
Oral History
Interviewer
Angela Nickerson
Interview date
5-17-2002
Interview location
Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine
Time
00:30:52
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Abstract
Luise (Trost) Cirillo, interviewed by Angela Nickerson, March 17, 2002, Pittsfield, Maine. Cirillo (b. 1912) talks about being growing up in Germany; working as a cook; coming to the U. S. in 1936 to escape Hitler’s Germany; meeting the Von Trapp family; first impressions of America; training to be a nurse; treating patients with malaria; difficulty joining the Navy as a German; her leisure time; working in a military hospital; secret marriage; hearing about the end of WWII; her military leave; living in Boston with her husband; private duty nurse at Deaconess Hospital in Boston; public health nurse in Springfield, MA; husband studied to be a lawyer; his job offer in Pittsfield, Maine in 1950; husband served as District Attorney for 3 terms in Skowhegan, ME; meeting Galen Cole; experiences of her parents in Germany during and after the war; how life in Europe was different after the war. Text: 36 pp. transcript. Time: 00:01:36. Photographs: p14535, p14536.
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Disciplines
Military History | Oral History | United States History | Women's History
Birth date
December 30, 1912
Location
Geseke, Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Death date
March 29, 2001
Location
Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine
Nation of origin
Germany
Gender
Female
Ethnicity
German
Occupation
Surgical Nurse
Branch of service
U.S. Army
Service Unit
United States Army Nurse Corps
Dates of service
1944-1945
Date of entry
1944
Location of Service
Camp McCoy, Wisconsin
Wars & Conflicts
World War II
Entry Rank
O-1 2nd Lieutenant
Highest Rank
O-1 2nd Lieutenant
Exit Rank
O-1 2nd Lieutenant
Names
Hitler; Baroness Von Trapp; Baron Von Trapp; Johannes Von Trapp; Bob Hope; Joe DeMaggio; MacArthur; Chief Nellie McGovern; Corporal [Anthony] Cirillo; President Truman; Governor Tobin; Joe Kennedy; Hiram Walker; Arthur Fiedler; Joe [Cirillo]; Jimmy [Cirillo]; David Cook; Red McMichael; Florence Corson; Galen Cole
Locations
Germany; Breman, Germany; Chicago; Evanston, Illinois; Waterville; Peoria; Stowe, Vermont; Lewiston, Maine; Green Mountains, Vermont; La Crosse, Wisconsin; Sparta, Wisconsin; Great Britain; Timbuktu; Aleutian Islands; California; Springfield, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; Boston; Springfield, Massachusetts; Pittsfield, Maine; Canada; Skowhegan, Maine; Detroit, Michigan
Headings
Women in the Military; Von Trapp Family; Prisoners of War
Collection name
Women in the Military
Collection number
MF144
Item number
NA3225
Recommended Citation
Trost Cirillo, Luise, "Luise Trost Cirillo, interviewed by Angela Nickerson, Part 1" (2023). MF144 Women in the Military. 45.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf144/45
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