Irma Boulet Darphin Interview (2008)
World War II Oral Histories
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Interview
Place Covered: England, France
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 2008-05-15
Duration: 00:38:53
Subjects: Prisoner of war | World War II | Military | Veterans | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives | United States. Army | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy | Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945 | Military nursing | NURSES | D-DAY | Darphin, Irma Boulet
Contributors:
- Yancey, Allegra Nevils Interviewer
- Darphin, Irma Boulet Interviewee
Description
An oral history interview conducted on May 15, 2008, with Irma Boulet Darphin, an Army Nurse with the 127th General Hospital during World War II. She discusses: joining the Army; her voyage to England on the USS Mauritania; waiting for the D-Day invasion; crossing the English Channel to France; treating patients in France, including soldiers from the Battle of the Bulge and American Prisoners of War; her positive interactions with German Prisoners of War; a typical day during the war; visiting with her brother in France; and her return home. She also shares her photographs from World War II.