Lieutenant Marion Dubbs, a U.S. Army Nurse, was presented with an Air Medal in Oahu for her work in a medical air evacuation squadron. She was awarded for her efforts in retrieving casualties from the battlefield and safely bringing them to area…
A Hawaiian woman pays welcome to three Toledo Red Cross women who recently arrived to provide service. Those women are Suzanne Schroeder, Emily Mocek, Lilian Greenberg.
Katherine Seares, a recreation worker for the Red Cross Association, recounts the morale of the wounded after spending two years in three combat zones of the European Theater.
Shirley Chapman is the only known Toledo woman who entertained with her own USO troupe overseas. She and her husband and manager, Arthur Angel, traveled with the Army to North Africa, Sicily, and Italy to entertain troops.
Lois M. Thompson, widow to Lieutenant Jay R. Thompson, who died in a plane crash, entered the Army Ferry Command Service to follow in her husband's footsteps.
When the United States entered into World War II, the Toledo Chapter of the Red Cross Association brought the Gray Lady Corps into Mercy Hospital. Led by Margaret Waite, the Gray Lady Corps provided non-medical services to patients as volunteers…
Margaret Hickey, a women's advocate and President of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs from 1944-1946, delivered a speech at a conference with a call to action: that women become more politically active and create a…
In 1943, the Business and Professional's Women's Clubs chose "Living on the Home Front" as the theme for National Women's Business Week, claiming that "war and peace must be won on the home front before they can be won in the world at large."