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  2. The Army Nurse - Wikipedia

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    The Army Nurse is a short documentary propaganda film commissioned by the US military to highlight the role and contributions of Army Nurses. The film opens with a combat scene in the summer of 1945, when the war becomes a million men old (presumably the Battle of Okinawa ) one of the soldiers is shown getting wounded and the scene goes woozy.

  3. United States Army uniforms in World War II - Wikipedia

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    During World War II the first flight nurses uniform consisted of a blue wool battle dress jacket, blue wool trousers and a blue wool men's style maroon piped garrison cap. The uniform was worn with either the ANC light blue or white shirt and black tie. After 1943 the ANC adopted olive drab service uniforms similar to the newly formed WAC.

  4. So Proudly We Hail! - Wikipedia

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    The nurses evacuate, and not long afterward the Japanese take the island. The flashback ends, with the officer saying he knows how to wake Davey up. He goes to her, and reads a heartfelt letter from John. John informs her he is still alive, still fighting, and still loves her. Davey wakes up and simply says, "John" and the movie ends.

  5. Angels of Bataan - Wikipedia

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    At the outset of World War II, US Army and US Navy nurses were stationed at Sternberg General Hospital in Manila, and other military hospitals around Manila. During the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942), 88 US Army nurses escaped, in the last week of December 1941, to Corregidor and Bataan. [6] Sternberg General Hospital, Manila, 1940.

  6. Uniforms of the United States Army - Wikipedia

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    Uniforms for the War of 1812 were made in Philadelphia.. The design of early army uniforms was influenced by both British and French traditions. One of the first Army-wide regulations, adopted in 1789, prescribed blue coats with colored facings to identify a unit's region of origin: New England units wore white facings, southern units wore blue facings, and units from Mid-Atlantic states wore ...

  7. List of Allied propaganda films of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Concerns women's Army auxiliary WACS: Liberation of Rome: APS; OWI; WACMPI; British Service Units Land and Live in the Jungle: USAAF Memo for Joe: Richard Fleischer: WACMPI Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress: William Wyler: First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces Motion Pictures on the Fighting Front: Movies at War ...

  8. History of nursing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Army hired female civilian nurses to help with the wounded. Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee was put in charge of selecting contract nurses to work as civilians with the U.S. Army. In all, more than 1,500 women nurses worked as contract nurses during the Spanish—American War. 1917 Army Nurse Corps Uniform Coat

  9. Ruby Bradley - Wikipedia

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    Colonel Ruby Bradley (December 19, 1907 – May 28, 2002) was a United States Army Nurse Corps officer, a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II, and one of the most decorated women in the United States military. [1] She was a native of Spencer, West Virginia but lived in Falls Church, Virginia, for over 50 years.