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Louise MacLeod served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II and the Korean War. MacLeod underwent basic training in 1945 at Ft. Devens, MA. By 1946 she was a 1st Lieutenant and certified Army nurse and dispatched on Army transport sea duty on the USAT Adm. W. L. Capps and the USAT Gen. E. T. Collins. From February 1947 through March 1948 she rotated through Korea, Japan, Honolulu, San Francisco, Shanghai, Manila, Seattle, Guam, and Okinawa. In the early 1950s she was assigned to the combined 3rd and 14th Field Hospitals in Pusan, Korea and at the 343rd Army Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.