[Landscape]
Title |
[Landscape] |
Date |
Undated |
Subject headings |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States. Army--Women |
Era |
Vietnam Era (1964-1974) |
Service branch |
Army--Army Nurse Corps |
Item description |
Landscape photo possibly taken in Vietnam. |
Veteran's name |
Peters, Maribeth Snyder |
Veteran's biography |
Maribeth Snyder Peters (b. 1947) served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1968-1971. She was stationed at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam .
Maribeth Snyder Peters was born in 1947 in Troy, New York, where she was also raised. While in college, she signed up to enter the United States Army Nurse Corps upon graduating, and after completing her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1969, she entered the service. Peters went to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas for basic training, and was then assigned to Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina. She spent September of 1969 through January of 1970 at Fort Bragg, before getting orders to Vietnam. During that time, she also met and then married her husband. In Vietnam, Peters was assigned to the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, and spent approximately fourteen months there. Upon returning to the United States, she was assigned to Fort Polk, and soon chose to have children and leave the service in 1971. |
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 |
WV0530 Maribeth Snyder Peters Oral History |
Collection summary |
March 2012 oral history interview. |
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 |
WV0530.6.002 |
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 |
900815954 |
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