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Oral History
"A Century of Service; A Century of Sacrifice" – USA Excerpts
Cazenove Lamar Miller Helm, Army Nurse Corps, May 1918-Nov. 1918, Massachusetts General Hospital Unit, Bordeaux, France. “You had to stay three years and graduate or you would never get to France. I did graduate in January of 1918 and I applied for an orthopedic unit … we first went to Walter Reed in Washington, then we were ordered for a unit to go to New York and wait for a ship for France. We arrived at Sandezar; then we went to Bordeaux to a base hospital. While I was there, the Chateau Thierry push came through northern France. And, they were flooded with wounded in Paris so they sent for ten casual nurses to be detached and go to Paris, and I was one of the ten sent. We arrived in a tent hospital in the Bois de Boulogne. … I never saw so much blood in my life. It was just terrible, and it needed cleaning up terribly, which they had us do. After a week, we finally got to another tent hospital and we were really as close as nurses get to the front, and all the front line dressings came to our tent hospital.”
Interview: Cazenove Lamar Miller Helm, interviewed by Mrs. John D. Capers, Augusta, GA, 20 April 1981, NSCD Collection, tape and transcript deposited at the Women’s Memorial Foundation, Inc., Arlington, VA.
MAJ Ladda "Tammy" Duckworth, USAR. Women’s Memorial Veterans Day Observance, Nov. 11, 2005. Photograph by Donna Parry. “I was just headed back home … and we happened to fly over a nest of insurgents. … And, they shot everything they had into the air … with small arms fire and RPGs … we were flying along and I heard the tap, tap, tap on the fuselage. I knew we had taken some small arms fire hits. I turned [to] the pilot in command. Of course, I swore and cursed. … I essentially said that we’d been hit. I was reaching forward with my right arm to hit the GPS to locate the exact grid coordinates of where we were hit so we could make the report to higher headquarters … and, as soon as I said those words, there was a giant fireball in front of my face. It was an RPG going off. The RPG punched up through the chin bubble (the Plexiglas window beneath my feet) and exploded between my legs. It amputated my right leg immediately and crushed my left below the knee. Well, it was not completely amputated, it was just hanging on by some skin. And, it almost took off my right arm. I did not know I was injured.”
