Iowa Nurse On Duty In Africa
Allied Headquarters in North Africa -- First Lieut. Ethel E. Larsen of Kimballton, Ia., one of the first contingent of U.S. nurses that arrived here recently, had this to say for American soldiers at Oran, where the nurses stopped en route here.
"The boys were perfectly marvelous to us, and don't think we haven't appreciated it."
The women, all graduate nurse and commissioned officers, are members of the army nurses corps.
Nurse Larsen was the only Iowan in the first group to arrive here.
Source: Muscatine Journal News-Tribune, December 26, 1942
Kimballton Girl Made Captain in Nursing Corps
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS -- Ethel E. Larsen, of Kimballton, Ia., has become the first captain in the nursing corps in the North Africa theater under new war department orders opening the higher ranks to army nurses.
Capt. Larsen has been in the Corps for two and a half years following study at the Iowa State Teacher's college and Drake university. She has been overseas for 15 months.
Source: Council Bluffs Nonpareil, January 5, 1944
