I have been learning about some of the amazing people who served during the wars. Elaine A. Roe, and her story made me pause and really think about the courage of the people who served behind the front lines.
She was born in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and joined the United States Army in 1942, during the height of the World War II. She would have known that that she would be working dangerously close to combat.
By 1944, she was serving in Italy during Operation Shingle. On the 10th of February, her field hospital came under intense enemy shelling. In th darkness and chaos, with power cut and explosions all around her, she and another nurse began to evacuate the patients by torchlight. It must have been frightening, but she stayed calm, and guided and reassured the wounded.
She was awarded the Silver Star, becoming one of the first women to receive it.
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