Maribeth Snyder Peters Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Most of this collection has been digitized. Some items have not beed digitized due to copyright or other logistical issues.
What's in the full collection?: March 2012 oral history transcript and scanned photographs.
Full biography: Maribeth Snyder Peters (b. 1947) served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1968-1971. She was stationed at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam. Maribeth Snyder Peters was born in 1947 in Troy, New York, where she was also raised. While in college, she signed up to enter the United States Army Nurse Corps upon graduating, and after completing her bachelor's degree in nursing in 1969, she entered the service. Peters went to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas for basic training, and was then assigned to Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina. She spent September of 1969 through January of 1970 at Fort Bragg, before getting orders to Vietnam. During that time, she also met and then married her husband. In Vietnam, Peters was assigned to the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, and spent approximately fourteen months there. Upon returning to the United States, she was assigned to Fort Polk, and soon chose to have children and leave the service in 1971.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Schools and Colleges
Branch of service: Army -- Army Nurse Corps
Conflict: Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Subject headings: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
United States. Army--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Landscape; Landscape photo possibly taken in Vietnam.

: Maribeth Snyder Peters leaning against car; Maribeth Snyder Peters leans against a blue convertible, next to an unnamed individual. Peters is on the left and is attired in a light blue Army Nurse Corps with various insignia.

: Maribeth Snyder Peters with unnamed colleague; Maribeth Snyder Peters practices making sutures, while an unnamed colleague sneaks up behind her.

: Maribeth Snyder Peters writing; Photograph of Maribeth Snyder Peters writing, with indiscernible patch on her arm.

: Oral history interview with Maribeth Snyder Peters; Maribeth Snyder Peters tells of her early life, education, United States Army Corps service including a fourteen month tour in Vietnam, and life after service. Peters discusses the culture of the armed forces during her service, challenges of being deployed to Vietnam, including relating an incident involving removing a grenade from a wounded soldier for which she and others earned a Bronze Star.

: Two unnamed individuals; Two unnamed individuals in a market in Vietnam.

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