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G.I. Nightingales, The Army Nurse Corps in World War II. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-9071-1. {}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ; U.S. Public Health Service (1950). United States Cadet Nurse Corps [1943–1948] and other Federal nursing programs. PUB. NO. 38.
A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (U of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), the standard scholarly history; Threat, Charissa J. Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Tomblin, Barbara Brooks. G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II (2004) 272 pages excerpt and ...
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 ...
Santo Tomas, Philippines WWII Internment Camp; United States Army Nurse Corps (a brochure describing the experiences of the Corps during WWII) Archived 2009-12-20 at the Wayback Machine; Welcome to Army Nurse Corps History: "Preserving our past to guide our future" Oral Histories - U.S. Navy Nurse Prisoner of War in the Philippines, 1942-1945
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] The Army General ...
First Lieutenant Reba Zitella Whittle (August 19, 1919 – January 26, 1981 [1]) was a member of the United States Army Nurse Corps during World War II.She became the only American military female prisoner of war in the European Theater after her casualty evacuation aircraft was shot down in September 1944.
In April 1941, Raney reported for duty and was the first African American nurse to serve in the Army Nurse Corps in World War II. [1] [5] Raney, commissioned as a second lieutenant, was first stationed at Fort Bragg, where she worked as a nursing supervisor. [5] The next year, she was transferred to the Tuskegee Army Air Field Station Hospital. [5]
Mary Louise Petty (January 4, 1916 – September 14, 2001) was an American army nurse during World War II. Petty was the first Black member of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps to achieve the rank of captain. She supervised a nurse training program at Fort Huachuca, and led the first group of Black nurses sent to serve in Europe in 1945.