Ms. Romaine first talks about being graduated from the St. Joseph School of Nursing in June 1941. She describes her first job at the St. Francis Hospital in Superior, Wisconsin where she worked for six months, during which time she heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She talks of entering the service as a nurse on August 26, 1943 and being sent to training at Camp McCoy. She then describes being transferred to Camp Grant, Illinois, a station camp, which was her last stop before going overseas to Taunton, England. Ms. Romaine describes her work in the amputation wards and the use of penicillin and other drugs just coming into widespread use. She talks of being transferred to the orthopedic wards and taking General Omar Bradley on a tour. She also describes the visits of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope and other social aspects of her stay in England. She then describes being loaned out to various French hospitals until her move to Berlin. She worked in the men's medical and surgical wards and gave Marlene Dietrich a tour. She talks of the comfortable living conditions the nurses had in Germany and her interactions with the German people. She also describes her work as the interpreter for the displaced Croatian people at a nearby hospital. She talks about the discrimination she had faced as a result of knowing the Croatian language as a child. She goes on to describe the celebrations of V-E Day in Berlin and how nurses were seen as heroes. She also describes the lack of social activity in the bombed out areas of Berlin and of bicycles being the only mode of transportation. She then talks about her reactions to the dropping of the atomic bombs. She describes her family as a military one and talks about what she learned from the war. She discusses her move to Santa Barbara, California after the war. She ended by talking about her volunteer work for the developmentally disabled that she has continued throughout the years and about her illnesses she experienced while stationed in England.
