Rose Bayuk reflects on being a nurse at sea during WWII
Rose Bayuk graduated from the Khaler School of Nursing in Rochester, Minnesota in 1938. She moved to California to begin her career. Then Pearl Harbor was attacked.
Bayuk and her sister — also a nurse — decided to join the Army Nurse Corps. Bayuk served on the RMS Queen Elizabeth, an English ocean liner used during the war to transport American troops to Europe, and a hospital ship.
This is the second in a series of conversations with veterans as part of Minnesota's Veterans' Voices Month. Listen to the first conversation here.
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