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Description
Color photograph of Helen Burns in her home on November 9, 2000. Helen Mae (Saurman) Burns was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on December 30, 1922, the daughter of Frank and Hellen (Mick) Saurman. She joined Army Nurse Corps, May 1945, and was deployed to the South Pacific aboard the U.S. Army Hospital ship Comfort, 1944-1945, earning two battle stars for her service in the Pacific Theatre. She married Warren T. Burns in 1952. Her nursing career included 10 years of service at the University of Maine's Cutler Health Center. She died June 15, 2005, in Bangor, Maine. Detail of p14533.
Topic
Women in the Military
Collection
MF144
Series Number
NA3202
Identifier
p14534
Recommended Citation
"Helen Mae (Saurman) Burns" (2000). Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Image Gallery. 279.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/nafoh_gallery/279
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Existence and Location of Originals
Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.
Keywords
World War II, Women in the Military, Female soldiers
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