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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.
The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire. The most important periods of operation for these units were during World War I and World War II.
First American recipient of the Legion of Merit and member of the "Angels of Bataan" – World War II. 1944 CAPT Sue S. Dauser: First woman in the Navy to be promoted to the rank of Captain O-6 – World War II. 1945 ENS Jane Kendeigh: First Navy flight nurse in an active combat zone, serving at Iwo Jima. [19]
A Women's War Too: U.S. Women in the Military in World War II. United States: National Archives Trust Fund Board. ISBN 1-880875-098. Robinson, Thelma M., (RN) (2005). Nisei Cadet Nurse of World War II: Patriotism in Spite of Prejudice. San Francisco, CA: Black Swan Mill Press.
QUINCY – Shirley Caswell Harrow, a nurse who, in her 70s, started a campaign to honor the nation's cadet nurses from World War II, died peacefully at her home at age 91 on Feb. 4. “The cadet ...
Comparative military ranks of World War II; List of equipment used in World War II; Imperial Japanese Army Uniforms; United States Army Uniform in World War II; Ranks and insignia of the Red Army and Navy 1940–1943; Ranks and insignia of the Soviet Armed Forces 1943–1955
Female United States Army nurses in World War II (29 P) Female United States Navy nurses in World War II (16 P) K. Nurses killed in World War II (10 P)
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.