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Veterans History Project Service Summary:

  • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945; Korean War, 1950-1953
  • Branch of Service: Navy
  • Location of Service: San Diego, California; Honolulu, Hawaii; Corpus Christi, Texas; Inchon Harbor, Hospital Ship, Korea
  • Highest Rank: Commander
  • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/3572

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"I started thinking, Well, I think it would be interesting to do something different. And I liked the look of that pretty white hospital ship." (Audio interview, 8:40)

Dorothy Tidwell was a small town Texas nursing student during World War II when she saw a recruiting brochure for the Navy. While most of her fellow students were joining the Army, she gravitated toward the idea of some day serving on a hospital ship. During that war, she was landlocked, first in San Diego, then in Hawaii. She went on reserve status after the war, and when she was recalled to serve in Korea, she got her wish. Aboard the USS Repose, anchored off Inchon, she and her colleagues treated the wounded and ill from the final days of the Korean War.

Dorothy Rhoades Collection
Interview / Recording

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About this Item

Title

  • Dorothy Rhoades Collection

Names

  • Cherokee County Historical Commission
  • Rhoades, Dorothy
  • Purtle, Jane

Home State

  • Texas

Headings

  • -  Rhoades, Dorothy
  • -  World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal Narratives
  • -  United States. Navy.
  • -  Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Personal Narratives
  • -  United States. Navy.

Repository

  • Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Gender

  • Female

Status

  • veteran

Service History

  • World War, 1939-1945

    • Branch of Service: Navy
    • Location of Service: San Diego, California; Honolulu, Hawaii; Corpus Christi, Texas; Inchon Harbor, Hospital Ship, Korea
    • Highest Rank: Commander
    • Dates of Service: 1942-1963
    • Military Status: veteran
    • Service History Note: The veteran was a nurse.
  • Korean War, 1950-1953

    • Branch of Service: Navy
    • Location of Service: San Diego, California; Honolulu, Hawaii; Corpus Christi, Texas; Inchon Harbor, Hospital Ship, Korea
    • Highest Rank: Commander
    • Dates of Service: 1951
    • Military Status: veteran

Materials

  • Audio: CD [1 item] -- Reference copy (collected 2009-08-20; 2009-08-20)
  • Manuscript: Transcript [1 item] -- Typewritten document (collected 2010)
  • Audio: Audio Cassette [2 items] -- Oral history interview (collected 1994-04-18)

Collection Number

  • AFC/2001/001/3572

Cite as

  • Dorothy Rhoades Collection (AFC/2001/001/3572), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Online Format

  • audio
  • online text

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

Using VHP Material in Publication or Exhibition

The Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress collects, preserves and makes accessible the firsthand recollections of U.S. military veterans who served from World War I through more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand what they saw, did and felt during their service. The Veterans History Project Collection includes oral histories along with documentary materials such as original letters, diaries, photographs, and memoirs.

Veterans and interviewers contribute these materials to the Library for scholarly and educational purposes, retaining any copyright they may hold. Therefore, permission must be obtained before using the interview or other materials in exhibition or publication. Researchers or others who would like to make further use of these materials should contact the Veterans History Project for assistance.

As a publicly supported institution, the Library generally does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot give or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material in its collections. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item from the Library’s collections and for securing any necessary permissions rests with persons desiring to use the item.

Please contact us with questions.

Obtaining Copies of VHP Materials

In order for VHP materials to be duplicated, we must receive written permission from the interviewee for you to obtain a copy of the recording unless the proposed use is limited to personal use, research, or other uses permissible by copyright law. If the interviewee is deceased, their next-of-kin may grant written permission.

Please contact VHP for assistance if you need to contact a veteran for permission to use their materials in exhibition or publication, or if you have received permission from the veteran and need access to high-resolution copies of VHP collection materials.

Citing VHP Materials

Please use the following formats when citing Veterans History Project materials (substituting the appropriate name and collection ID number).

Materials as a whole:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Manuscript material:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Memoirs (MS02), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Transcript (MS04), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Correspondence (MS01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Recording:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Audio recording (SR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Video recording (MV01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Photograph:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Photographs (PH01), photographer unknown, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Photographs (PH03-PH14), Ralph Williams photographer, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Computer file:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Computer file (CF01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Artifact:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Artifact (AR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Cherokee County Historical Commission, Dorothy Rhoades, and Jane Purtle. Dorothy Rhoades Collection. 1942. Personal Narrative. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.03572/.

APA citation style:

Cherokee County Historical Commission, Rhoades, D. & Purtle, J. (1942) Dorothy Rhoades Collection. [Personal Narrative] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.03572/.

MLA citation style:

Cherokee County Historical Commission, Dorothy Rhoades, and Jane Purtle. Dorothy Rhoades Collection. 1942. Personal Narrative. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.03572/>.