Regina H. Schiffman |
Regina Schiffman, while serving with the 8063 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH), Korea [9/1951] | Korean War, 1950-1955; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Army Nurse Corps
Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, California; Valley Forge General Hospital, Pennsylvania; 8063 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH), Korea; Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland; Walter Reed Medical Center, Washington, DC; Landstuhl and Frankfurt, Germany; Japan; Fort Benning, Georgia
Lieutenant Colonel
Philadelphia, PA
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After three years of neurosurgical nurse work at a New York hospital, 24-year-old Regina Schiffman decided to make a career in the U.S. Army. A year after she enlisted, the U.S. was at war in Korea, and in the summer of 1951 she found herself working in the operating room of a MASH unit. Conditions were primitive in both the O.R. (litters were balanced on saw horses, a pot-bellied stove was the sole source of heat in the frigid winter) and in her tent (she bathed most of the time out of her helmet). But Schiffman drew strength from the selflessness of her mission and the camaraderie of her fellow nurses and the physicians.
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