Mildred J. Warner
Army Nurse Corps
Mildred Warner finally receives medals she did not know she was eligible for at age 92. Warner, a Pennsylvania native, graduated from the McKeesport School of Nursing in the fall of 1940. She couldn’t take her state boards to get her RN license until the following year because you had to be 21 and she was just 20 at the time. The following year on Dec. 7 came the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and she decided to join the Army Nurse Corps very much against her father’s wishes.
Warner was initially assigned to Fort Eustis, Virginia for two months before being transferred to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. After four months there she volunteered for overseas duty, assigned to the South Pacific. After traveling to San Francisco by train, she boarded the S.S. Lurline, a converted troop ship, for the eight-day trip across the Pacific. She arrived in Brisbane, Australia in July 1943 where she was assigned to work at the 13th Station Hospital in Townville, Australia.
About 10 months into her military service, Warner — an only child — was recalled to the United States because her father was terminally ill. She was reassigned to the Deshon General Hospital in Butler, Penn. where she served for the remainder of the war as operating room supervisor, where she stayed very busy with the sick and wounded from the Battle of the Bulge.
Mildred received the following awards, the:
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal
WWII Victory Medal
Women’s Army Corps Service Medal
Edenton, N. Carolina (2012)
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