Through many conflicts, the women who lived in Peru supported those who left home to serve. These women wrote letters to soldiers and kept their homes maintained. Some even worked in local factories. However, many women who lived in Peru also left home to serve. This page honors those who either left Peru to serve or who served and later moved to the area and either lived or worked in Peru.
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Margaret Stout O’Donnell: From a Wartime Field Hospital to Peru’s Hospitals
Margaret Catherine Stout O’Donnell served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1943 to 1945. After completing her nursing education in West Virginia, she entered the Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. Her wartime service took her from Northern Ireland and England to field hospitals in France, Luxembourg, Germany, and Austria. As a…