In it, she found dog tags, letters, tour books, and her Red Cross uniform. It still fits. Foster's letters are a portal into the 1940s. They are conversational, casual and detailed.

Sally and I were attached to the Army. Other Red Cross nurses would be attached to the Navy and the Air Force. We had to buy our own uniform (unlike the ATS).

SALT LAKE CITY — A new exhibit at a Utah museum helps to tell the story of women in World War II, particularly those who served as nurses. The American Red Cross has donated dozens of old ...

Today the American Red Cross has 7,500,000 paying members and 3,714 chapters — in every U.S. county but two. Of these the New York chapter is the biggest, the most active.

Thank you to Doris Phinney for sending in these photos from 1942 of American Red Cross nurses’ aides from St. John’s Hospital. Doris is 95 years young and has lived in Lowell for more t… ...

One of the things that has always struck me about the cluster of American Red Cross buildings off 17th Street NW, across from the Ellipse, is their sheer whiteness.

Mary H. “Marika” Kosti, 93, a Greek Red Cross nurse in World War II, died Friday (Sept. 26, 2003) in her home after a lengthy illness. She was born Mary ...

From May 1941 to December 1942, I used to work as a Red Cross nurse at the Base Hospital at Horsham. One night when there had been bombing locally, an injured German airman was brought in.