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The Army Nurse Corps stopped being all-female in 1955; [27] that year Edward L.T. Lyon was the first man to receive a commission in the Army Nurse Corps. [28] During the Vietnam War many Army nurses would see deployment to South East Asia. Army nurses would staff all major Army hospitals in the theater, including Cam Ranh Bay, Da Nang, and ...
In January 1945 she was allowed to join the United States Army Nurse Corps as a Second Lieutenant reservist and was initially assigned to Lowell Hospital in Massachusetts. In 1946 she was promoted and assigned to 332nd Station Medical Group in Ohio on Lockbourne Army Air Base. One notable incident was when the local hospital would not treat a ...
Julia Otteson Flikke (March 16, 1879 in Viroqua, Wisconsin – February 23, 1965 [1]) was an American nurse.Her service to the United States Army Nurse Corps spanned both world wars and included overseas assignments in the Philippines and China.
The Angels of Bataan (also known as the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor" and "The Battling Belles of Bataan" [1]) were the members of the United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurse Corps who were stationed in the Philippines at the outset of the Pacific War and served during the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942 ...
Lillian Dunlap (January 20, 1922 – April 3, 2003) [1] [2] was an officer and military nurse in the United States Army.She served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, later rising to the rank of brigadier general and being made chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps.
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The 25th Station Hospital was the first United States Army medical unit of African American service members to deploy overseas during World War II. [1] These nurses from the Army Nurse Corps were sent to Liberia in March 1943. [1] [2] There were 30 nurses in the unit and they were there to support United States troops on airfields and rubber ...
The Army General Hospital, a former Chicago hotel, [1] was named in honor of Gardiner who was the first Army Nurse Corps' flight nurse killed while serving in World War II. [2] It was the first Army hospital named for a woman or nurse. [3] Gardiner was killed in July 1943 and the hospital was dedicated in July 1944. [3]