Annis Glendon Weir Collection
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Annis Glendon Weir
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Annis Glendon Weir poses outside on a lounge chair in her Navy Nurse Corps white service dress with a 1944 white service hat in 1945.
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Oral history interview with Annis Weir
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Primarily documents Annis Glendon Weir's early life and nurses' training; her experiences in the Navy Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1946; and her life after World War II. Weir discusses nurses' training at St. Francis Hospital in New Jersey, including her classes, ward duty; and living quarters. She also describes hearing about Pearl Harbor, the hospital being taken over for the Cadet Nurse Corps program, and her work at Mercer Hospital." Topics related Weir's Navy Nurse Corps service include her mother's reaction when she joined; living arrangements at St. Albans Hospital in New York; her shock at the number of patients in St. Albans; grotesque war wounds; treating former American prisoners of war; celebrating V-J Day in New York City; free products provided for service women, including cosmetics and nylon hose; social life, including a party at the British Consulate, theater shows, and the Café Rouge; touring the USS Missouri; being turned down for a GI loan because she "might get pregnant" the positive attitude of the country during the war; her opinions of President Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt; memorable songs; and the benefits of her military service, including greater confidence." Weir also talks about meeting her husband Earle Weir; his experiences in the Merchant Marines and being denied veteran status; her involvement with WAVES National; the dedication of the Women in Military Service to America Memorial; her daughter's interest in joining the navy; and her opinion of women's current roles in the military.
