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1918: Jane Arminda Delano worked as an Army nurse during the Spanish–American War, and continued her work with the Red Cross after that time. During World War I, Jane stayed on the home front and organized nurses to go overseas and work with wounded soldiers. She was in charge of over 20,000 nurses, who all worked in vital roles overseas in ...
Nurse at the Russian Front: A Diary 1914–18 First published by Constable (UK) in 1974. ISBN 009459970X. (The US edition of this book has the title With the Armies of the Tsar: A Nurse at the Russian Front 1914–1918, and was published by Stein & Day, Briarcliff Manor, New York, 1975. ISBN 0812817931)
The first African-American woman sworn into the Navy Nurse Corps was Phyllis Mae Dailey, a Columbia University student from New York, on March 8, 1945. She was the first of only four African-American women to serve as a Navy nurse during World War II. [26] The first five African-American women entered the Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARs).
American women never served in combat roles (as did some Russians), but many were eager to serve as nurses and support personnel in uniform. [69] During the course of the war, 21,498 U.S. Army nurses (American military nurses were all women then) served in military hospitals in the United States and overseas.
The role of public health nurse began in Los Angeles in 1898, and by 1924, there were 12,000 public health nurses, half of them in America's 100 largest cities. Their average annual salary of public health nurses in larger cities was $1390.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:World War I nurses. It includes World War I nurses that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
However, political pressures stalled attempts to create more roles for women in the American Armed Forces. Women saw combat during World War II, first as nurses in the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941. The Woman's Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Women's Reserve were also created during this conflict. In July 1943 a bill was signed ...
Army Heritage Foundation Center – Army Nurses of World War One: Service Beyond Expectations; Army Nurse Corps history and WWII women's uniforms in color (WAC, WAVES, ANC, NNC, USMCWR, PHS, SPARS, ARC and WASP) WW2 U.S. Medical Research Centre; US Army Nurse Corps Collection US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania