WWII Navy Nurse - Helen Siragusa

Women of the Military - A podcast by Amanda Huffman - Tuesdays

Helen Siragusa shares her story this week as a World War II Navy Nurse. She entered the Navy in January 1945 and left in August of 1952 and stayed in the Reserves for three more years. She had just begun nursing school when Pearl Harbor happened. Her brothers joined the Navy and she walked past a recruiting poster regularly. By the time she graduated she was ready to join the Navy.

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