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Primarily documents Hazel Meeks Jones' service in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) stateside and abroad, from 1942 to 1965. Jones briefly describes her large family and their sharecropping in rural Georgia; her her time in nursing school, focusing on social activities and segregation; and her memory of Pearl Harbor Day. She also discusses joining the ANC; her experiences in basic training; work in surgery; and life at the station hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Discussion of her time stationed in India includes: lack of casualties received; restrictions of the base; entertaining soldiers; monsoons; and VE and VJ Days. " Post-WWII and Korean War-era topics include: her assignment as a reservist in Georgia; Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat (EENT) nursing; joining the regular army; the increase in patients during the Korean War; being stationed in Hawaii; and meeting her husband. Jones also discusses treating Dwight D. Eisenhower at Walter Reed Army Hospital; working on the neurosurgical ward in Germany; night supervisor and recovery room/ICU nursing at Womack hospital in Fayetteville; and changes in uniforms over her time in the service. " Personal topics include: life during the Depression; Jones' seven siblings in the service; explanation of service-time personal photos; and opinion on women in contemporary military service.

Primarily documents Hazel Meeks Jones' service in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) stateside and abroad, from 1942 to 1965. Jones briefly describes her large family and their sharecropping in rural Georgia; her her time in nursing school, focusing on social activities and segregation; and her memory of Pearl Harbor Day. She also discusses joining the ANC; her experiences in basic training; work in surgery; and life at the station hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Discussion of her time stationed in India includes: lack of casualties received; restrictions of the base; entertaining soldiers; monsoons; and VE and V-J Days. " Post-WWII and Korean War-era topics include: her assignment as a reservist in Georgia; Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat (EENT) nursing; joining the regular army; the increase in patients during the Korean War; being stationed in Hawaii; and meeting her husband. Jones also discusses treating Dwight D. Eisenhower at Walter Reed Army Hospital; working on the neurosurgical ward in Germany; night supervisor and recovery room/ICU nursing at Womack hospital in Fayetteville; and changes in uniforms over her time in the service. " Personal topics include: life during the Depression; Jones' seven siblings in the service; explanation of service-time personal photos; and opinion on women in contemporary military service.

Hazel Jones (right, in ANC white hospital uniform) and Dr. Kempe stand behind a table full of cake a cinnamon buns, circa 1950.

Portrait of Hazel Jones, circa 1943, in her ANC olive drab dress uniform and service hat.

Six army nurses on duty at Tripler General Hospital in Oahu, Hawaii pose during their duties as usherettes at the formal opening of the Tripler Post Theater on 14 April 1950. They are (left to right): Veronica J. Eagler, Marie E. Frese, Ellen M. Foley, Anna Duga, Blanche M. Stewart, and Hazel M. Meeks Jones. All the nurses wear the ANC white hospital uniform with leis.