I was in the Medical. Oh, in Denver! No, I worked in an optical shop where they made glasses. Then when I went into the Navy I went into Medical Corps in ’44 or ’45. towards the end of the war.

A year and a half before the war ended and I ended up in Kansas (Laughs), in the Navy in Kansas. There was a naval air station there and it was where they would bring the wounded in from the Pacific and they triage them in the triagery in San Francisco, then they’d fly them to the closest Veteran’s Hospital that they could get them to their homes, and that was a stopover.

I worked as a nurse, but not like the RNs are now but we got everything that the nurses did except sign the papers. We’re the one’s who gave medications, took out stitches and all that and took care of the patients.

We did have patients at the naval air station in Kansas (Laughs), and that was interesting.

One time, somebody asked me about going into the Navy. I liked it and they kind of questioned that and I said, “Well the difference between the guys and the girls is that the girls went because they wanted to, the guys went because they had to,” and it made a lot of difference.

And we weren’t like where they are now where they put women on ships. There were only certain places. Women couldn’t go places where there was any war.

And I was in Great Lakes for a while at the hospital there, and then I got married when I got out of the service.