Download or read book American Red Cross Overseas Club Operations in World War II written by American National Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At His Side written by George Gershon Korson and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doughnut Dollies written by Helen Airy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American service men in England during World War II called American Red Cross girls "Doughnut Dollies." It was a warm and affectionate term designed to show the soldiers' appreciation for the morale-building efforts of the American Red Cross. The Red Cross girls operated "clubmobiles" which were driven to air bases where the girls served fresh doughnuts, hot coffee, and broadcast Big Band music over loud-speakers to welcome airmen as they returned from missions overseas. Red Cross girls also helped establish and operate recreation clubs wherever American service men were stationed. In London, fourteen American Red Cross clubs furnished entertainment, meals, snacks and maintained dormitories for soldiers on leave. This novel is the story of two Red Cross Aero Club directors stationed on air fields where they were instructed to establish recreation clubs. It is a story of their accomplishments, frustrations, romances, and the tragedies they witnessed and experienced. Helen Airy was raised on a cattle ranch in Northern California. After graduation from the University of California at Berkeley, she was employed for several years as a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. At the outbreak of World War II, her restless ways led her to join the American Red Cross personnel in war-time England. Airy served in England in various capacities where she gained an understanding of the tragedy of war. She saw courageous young men lose their lives and witnessed the grief their loss left behind. She came to admire and appreciate the stiff upper-lip courage and the generosity of the English people who opened their doors and their hearts, and shared their meagre provisions with the American and other forces that flooded their country. Airy has always been proud to be called a "Doughnut Dolly."
Download or read book At His Side The Story Of The American Red Cross Overseas In World War II written by George Korson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a gripping account of the American Red Cross's crucial role in World War II, told from the perspective of one of its key officers. George Korson paints a vivid picture of the challenges and triumphs that faced the organization as it worked tirelessly to provide aid and support to millions of people caught up in one of the darkest periods of human history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys written by James H. Madison and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Richardson was a Red Cross volunteer who worked as a Clubmobile hostess during World War II. Handing out free doughnuts, coffee, cigarettes, and gum to American soldiers in England and France, she and her colleagues provided a touch of home.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Between the Lines written by Elizabeth Phenix Wiesner and published by Posterity Press (MD). This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanitarians at War written by Gerald Steinacher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War, this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis during the Second World War. The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial assistance to Jews trapped in Nazi camps across Europe, the ICRC desperately needed to salvage its reputation in order to remain relevant in the post-war world. Indeed, the whole future of Switzerland's humanitarian flagship looked to hang in the balance at this time. Torn between defending Swiss neutrality and battling Communist critics in the early Cold War, the Red Cross leadership in Geneva emerged from the world war with a new commitment to protecting civilians caught in the crossfire of conflict. But they did so while defending former Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials and issuing travel papers to many of Hitler's former henchmen. These actions did little to silence the ICRC's critics, who unfavourably compared the 'shabby' neutrality of the Swiss with the 'good' neutrality of the Swedes, their eager rivals for leadership in international humanitarian initiatives. In spite of all this, by the end of the decade, the ICRC had emerged triumphant from its moment of existential crisis, navigating the new global order to reaffirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs against the challenge of the Swedes, and playing a formative role in rewriting the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions of 1949. This uncompromising new history tells the remarkable and intriguing story of how the ICRC achieved this - successfully escaping the shadow of its ambiguous wartime record to forge a new role and a new identity in the post-1945 world.
Download or read book The American Red Cross with the Armed Forces written by American National Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Relief Abroad written by American National Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Induction Training for Red Cross Overseas Club Workers in World War II a Report of an Employee Training Project written by Barbara Elizabeth Phinney and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dancing with GIs written by Libby Chitwood Appel and published by Warren Publishing (NC). This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libby Appel brings to life the adventures of being a Red Cross worker during World War 2. From Washington DC to field stations in the jungles of India and a city club in Karachi, this is a fascinating tale.
Download or read book The Work of the American Red Cross During the War written by American National Red Cross. War Council and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Girls Next Door written by Kara Dixon Vuic and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To boost soldiers’ morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women, along with famous entertainers, overseas. This history of the women who talked and listened, danced and sang, adds an intimate chapter to the story of war and its ties to life in peacetime.
Download or read book Directory of All Persons who Served Overseas During World War II with the American Red Cross written by American Overseas Association and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Red Cross written by Foster Rhea Dulles and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Its Activities During the Second World War September 1 1939 June 30 1947 Relief activities written by International Committee of the Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
