Gwatkin, Mary Ann, “Gwatkin, Mary Ann (Interview outline and video), 2004,” Digital Collections, accessed April 9, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28950.
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Gwatkin, Mary Ann (Interview outline and video), 2004
Mary Ann Gwatkin was born in 1920 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She trained as a nurse, and enlisted in the Army after Pearl Harbor. She worked initially in Gulfport, Mississippi, and was then sent to Europe, where she worked at several assignments in Wales and England, and eventually transferred to France, ending up at the American base at Mourmelon. Along the way, she helped to treat casualties from the battles in France from Normandy to the end of the war.