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Interview primarily focuses on Betty Berry Godin's service as an Army Air Force Evacuation Nurse. Pre-service topics include Godin's nursing education and employment; being reject for a job as a flight attendant; and the death of a boyfriend in a pilot training accident. She then provides many details of her service with the Army Air Force Evacuation Corps, including training for overseas and flight conditions; traveling across the Pacific to India; organization of flight evacuations; picking up patients in Pakistan, India, and Burma; her co-workers, including Dr. Seagrove and Major Morris Kaplan; her duties as mess officer; flight nurse duties, including monitoring reactions to altitude and administering medicine; evacuating Merrill's Marauders; precautions against malaria, mosquitoes, and snakes; killing a python in a trench and having shoes and a purse made from its skin; and her pet hog, Pennsylvania. " Topics related to her stateside and post-war service include " V-E Day and V-J Day; her desire to fly; her frequent trans-Pacific flights while stationed in Hawaii, and her long-distance relationship with Gene Godin, which continued after their marriage. Other topics include Gene Godin's career with the Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Air Force overseas and abroad, their four month journey to Alaska; admiration of Charles Lindbergh; and her opinion of women in combat positions.

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