Rose L. Gibbs
Bio
Rose L. Gibbs was born in 1927 in Virginia and graduated from high school in 1946. She then moved to Richmond, and while there, she saw a recruiting sign advertising free food, boarding, clothes, and seventy-five dollar-per-week, so she decided to join the military. She was stationed at the Osaka Military Hospital where they received casualties from Korea. After the Osaka hospital was transferred back to Japanese control, she and her unit went to the 279th General Hospital where she worked as a medical laboratory technician. After getting married and becoming pregnant, she was honorably discharged. Years later, she rejoined the reserves and served an additional twenty years, retiring in 1984.
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Recalling Patients She Helped Treat
Rose Gibbs discusses notable patients she helped treat while stationed at the hospital in Osaka, Japan. She recalls the cold winters which resulted in seeing many frostbite patients being brought in, so many that the Army issued a statement to servicemen that they would be court-martialed if it was found that they were not wearing their wool socks.
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Describing Other Duties as a Medical Technician
Rose Gibbs recalls having to spend time working with the blood bank and in the morgue. She remembers having patients who died of fevers and being issued warnings to make sure to wear gloves as they did not know what caused those deaths. She shares how she had to assist with autopsies from time to time.
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