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[...]

Elsie Yuen Seetoo looks down at an object in her hand outside Kunming, China, shortly after she was commissioned in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in July 1944.

Elsie Seetoo, in uniform, pauses on a road outinside Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, in July 1944. Back of the photo reads "To Bill-A very Merry Christmas...Elsie, '44"

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.

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

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

Elsie Yuen Seetoo stands in front of a clinic for Chinese soldiers at the Infantry Training Center operated by the U.S. Army outside Kunming, China, in late 1943.

Elsie Yuen Seetoo stands in front of a clinic for Chinese soldiers at the Infantry Training Center operated by the U.S. Army outside Kunming, China, in late 1943.

Elsie Yuen Seetoo, in uniform, sits against a rail outside her dormitory at the Chinese Medical Relief Corps and Emergency Medical Training School in Guiyang, China, in t[...]

Elsie Seetoo kneels outside her tent quarters at Camp Ramgarh, India, in spring of 1943.

Elsie Yuen Seetoo faces backwards as passenger in a B-25 airplane enroute to Calcutta in August 1944. The cockpit is clearly visible behind her, with Capt. James Jackson,[...]

Elsie Yuen Seetoo sits on a charcoal truck outside the headquarters of the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps in summer 1942. The vehicle has a red cross on the side,[...]

Elsie Yuen Seetoo leans against a tree near Hostel Three outside Kunming, China, shortly after she was commissioned by the US Army Nurse Corps in July 1944.

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

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.

The 12 members of the Medical Service Training Unit of the Emergency Medical Service Training School at Guiyang (formerly Kweiyang) prepare to be flown to India. The unit[...]

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 (center) sits with Micky (left) and Pyhllis Rogers (right) at Camp Ramgarh, India, where all three were stationed at the US Army's 22nd Field Hospital i[...]

Quarters for the three nurses and two American Red Cross workers at Chengkung Airbase outside Kunming, China, photographed in 1944.

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 (center) and Chinese Army Capt. Sze (right) read a Chinese-English conversation text for U.S. Army Lt. Marrie (left) in their tent facility at Ramgarh, [...]