Odyssey's Wartime Memories

Troopship No.1: A Dutch Nurse's Story

Troopship #4

After we left some rough seas in the ATLANTIC with many girls experiencing becoming sea sick, we landed in...

Sept.17: A Nurse in Occupied Holland

A cloudless Sunday.We ,nurses, were bringing lunches around on a floor for wounded german officers and for...

Snapshot #1

After the Germans invaded Holland they needed hospitalbeds.No problem:they took over parts of our...

Snapshot #2

Before we were liberated by a Welsh regiment we still had Germans in our city.One german tankcommander put...

Snapshot # 3

The British not only dropped parts of Sten-and Brenguns to the undergound people in Holland,but often very...

One never knows: Occupied Holland

I changed from a student in Holland to become a R.N. during the occupation of the Germans.The management of...

Grabbag of Memories: Parallel lives: Life in Occupied Holland-Part 1

My youngest sister and her buddies across the street used to go the area where hothouses were in a...

Grabbag of Memories: Parallel Lives: Life in Occupied Holland-Part 2.

"When the german nun, in charge ,went to chapelI I heard many heroïc stories.One guy who had a...

Grabbag of Memories: Parallel Lives: Life in Occupied Holland-Part 3

That was something one HÀD to get.The farm was across the river Maas.She got her old...

Mobilisation and Evacuation: Childhood Memories of Life in Holland

After The liberation: Life in Holland

From the Cellar into the Snow: Life in Postwar Holland

What Now?? Nursing in Holland

Waiting for our call up.

Measles.

Christmasses past.

From Here....To There #1

From Here....To There #2

From Here....To There #3

From Here....To There #4

Troopship #2

Troopship #3

On a trip to Holland on a freighter with passenger accomodation- a wonderull way to travel as many ports on...

Troopship # 5

The captain introduced himself and then the SECURITY OFFICER talked to me: He wanted me to go to a certain...