Marion Anna Steinhilber's guest appearances

Marion Anna Steinhilber

Veterans History Project

Gary Sinise

Chuck Hagel

Peter Young

Paul Alexander

Roger Dean

Rhonda Cornum

Julia M. Grabner Haskell

Arthur Guerrero

James Dorris

Donald Patrick Finn

Cookie Avvampato

Norman Ikari

Max Cleland

Bertran Wallace

Larry Schwab

OwlTail

Working in Buffalo, New York's Mercy Hospital in the fall of 1943, Marion Stenhilber was persuaded by a friend to visit the local Red Cross office one night after their shift concluded. Steinhilber wound up volunteering, while her friend decided against it. She was assigned to the women's ward of a hospital in Brooklyn, but she craved something stronger. Again, a friend intervened, signing them up for overseas duty. That put them in Calcutta, India, and from there she was off to several duty stations in the China-Burma-India Theater. She treated malaria patients, worked with soldiers who had been badly burned, and found she liked working in the operating room best of all. Most of the GIs were, if anything, overly solicitous of her needs for a touch of comfort and home.