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Title	[Earl Mountbatten in India, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--AAF Nurse Corps
Item description	Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Theatre and later Viceroy of India, rides in a jeep with three men in uniform in India, circa 1944.
Veteran's name	Godin, Betty Berry
Veteran's biography	Elizabeth "Betty" Berry Godin (1919-2006) of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, served as a U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF) evacuation nurse from 1943 until January 1948 . Betty Berry Godin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. She graduated from high school in 1937 and did nursing training at West Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh until 1940. She then worked in obstetrics at Women’s McGee Hospital in Pittsburgh until joining the Army Air Evacuation Nurses in spring 1943." Godin attended the School of Air Evacuation at Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated two months later as a member of the 349th Air Evacuation Group. She was then sent briefly to Camp McCall, North Carolina, and then Camp Anza, California, for overseas debarkation. In summer 1943, she sailed on the George Washington, stopping briefly in Hobart, Australia, before going to Bombay, India. From Bombay, a British ship took her to Calcutta, India, and then Godin was flown to the staging area of the 803rd Air Evacuation Squadron in Chabua, India, in the Assam province. She remained there over a year, ferrying soldiers to hospitals, until returning stateside at the end of 1944. From the Miami Beach Replacement Training Center, Godin was next assigned to the orthopedic ward at Buckley Field in Denver, Colorado, where she met her future husband. She later moved to Lowry Field, also in Denver, when Buckley closed. After VJ Day, she volunteered to return to flying status and was sent to Hickam Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she flew all over the Pacific. In 1947, she flew to San Francisco, California, to marry Gene Godin, then returned to her duties in Hawaii, while her husband worked in Denver and later Korea and Japan. Godin left the military in January 1948 and moved to Japan to be near her husband . The Godins had many residences as a result of Gene Godin's twenty-one year career with the Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Air Force, including Tucson, Arizona; Madrid, Spain; Santa Barbara, California; and Westover, Massachusetts. He left the military in 1964 and went to work at a hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts, before the Godins retired to Florida. They later settled in Etowah, North Carolina. Godin died in November 2006.
Place	India
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0096 Betty Berry Godin Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0096.6.007
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900811215

[Earl Mountbatten in India, circa 1944]

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