1945

Buelah Mancl

Lieutenant Buelah Mancl from Appleton worked as a nurse at the 118 and 102 Army evacuation hospitals in Europe in 1945. The hospitals moved across France and Germany by truck convoy. She administered plasma, gave medications, changed dressings, and started blood transfusions for soldiers injured in combat. The Army sent some 4,000 nurses to Europe to serve in 80 different medical units.

Buelah Mancl, circa 1945

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Buelah Mancl at the headquarters of the 102 evacuation hospital in
Warburg, Germany,
April 21, 1945
Courtesy of Rosann Milius