Elsie Yuen Seetoo stands beside a banner that idenitifies the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps headquarters in the summer of 1942.

Primarily documents Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo's early life and education in China; her service in the Chinese Red Cross from 1942 to 1944; her service in the U.S. Army Nurse[...]

Elsie Yuen Seetoo and a another soldier kneel on one knee while holding a rifle, demonstrating a basic training drill in Fall of 1942. This was part of her indoctrination[...]

Elsie Yuen Seetoo, in nurse's uniform, stands by the nurse's quarters at Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong where she received her training.

Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo, wearing her U.S. Army uniform, poses in Shanghai in January 1946.

U.S. Army nurses (left to right) "Muzzy," Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo, Wolverton, and Lymas pose in garden outside the temporary nurses quarters in Chengdu, China, in the spri[...]

Nurse Elsie Yuen Seetoo (left) with Wolverton (right) and another nurse in Chengdu, China, in 1945.

Elsie Yuen Seetoo, in nurses uniform, climbs the fire escape stairs that serve as the stretcher ramp for a hospital with no elevator, May 1945.

Four of the five Sisters of Charity stand outside at the 95th Station Hospital after being evacuated from their hospital in eastern China, which was threatened by Japanes[...]

Elsie Yuen Seetoo (left) with the base dentist (center) and nurse Josephine Wong (right, holding dog) pose at Chengkung Airbase, outside Kunming, China, in Spring 1944.