Within the U.S. military, World War II made the nurse an indispensable aspect of battlefield medical care. One of the infrequently recognized sacrifices of Army nurses was the time spent as ...

“I was up for doing what I could,” she said about the decision to enlist in the United States Cadet Nurses Corps in 1943. World War II was raging, the country faced a shortage of nurses on the ...

A Virginia woman who worked as a nurse during World War II celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by family."They just told me they would pick me up around 1:00 and I didn't know why or where or ...

“The general conception of cool, clean hospital corridors and nurses in starched white uniforms was considerably altered,” World War II correspondent Helen Kirkpatrick wrote in the ...

(WJHL) — Norma Nelson had plans to teach Spanish, but like many other young adults in the 1940s, World War II changed that trajectory ... six of the nurses got on board this old hospital ...

On Dec. 20, World War II Army nurse veteran Regina Benson celebrated her 105th birthday, according to a Friends of the National World War II Memorial press release. Born on Dec. 20, 1919 in ...

A Virginia woman who worked as a nurse during World War II celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by family."They just told me they would pick me up around 1:00 and I didn't know why or where or ...

Gertrude Leblanc is humble, good gracious. I didn't know all this was going to be happening. And the Manassas woman will tell you that today is overwhelming as she's in the spotlight, family ...