Primarily documents Helen Bolling Potts' service in the American Red Cross during World War II. Topics from Potts time in the service include: her mother's reaction to her enlistment; reasons for joining the Red Cross; accompanying French sailors on tours of New York City; seeing plays on Broadway; the duties of a Red Cross clubmobile girl; treatment from servicemen; buzz bombs in London, England; entertaining troops; female pilots during WWII; Red Cross clubs; seeing Bob Hope perform; Marlene Dietrich staying with her unit in Germany; serving coffee and donuts to prisoners in a German work camp (possibly Bergen-Belsen) near Hanover, Germany; training at the riffle range at the Big Red I, US First Infantry Division, camp; being impressed by a German preschool; German nationalism; and maintaining contact with a Red Cross friend while stationed in Europe. " Personal Topics include: Potts' reasons for not making the Red Cross a career; adjustment back to civilian life; equal pay for women; what she has gained from her service; never experiencing rationing; barn dances; feelings on women in combat positions; opinions of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mary Channing Coleman; Eleanor Roosevelt, and Robert E. Lee; and memories of teaching in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina.