Within the U.S. military, World War II made the nurse an indispensable aspect of battlefield medical care. One of the infrequently recognized sacrifices of Army nurses was the time spent as ...

“I was up for doing what I could,” she said about the decision to enlist in the United States Cadet Nurses Corps in 1943. World War II was raging, the country faced a shortage of nurses on the ...

(WJHL) — Norma Nelson had plans to teach Spanish, but like many other young adults in the 1940s, World War II changed that trajectory ... So, Nelson went to nursing school and joined the ...

On Dec. 20, World War II Army nurse veteran Regina Benson celebrated her 105th birthday, according to a Friends of the National World War II Memorial press release. Born on Dec. 20, 1919 in ...

A Virginia woman who worked as a nurse during World War II celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by family."They just told me they would pick me up around 1:00 and I didn't know why or where or ...

ELLISVILLE, Mo. — This is an unsung story about a group of World War II nurses. Terry Jacoby, a 100-year-old retired nurse, now lives in Ellisville. She is likely one of the few remaining women ...

It was in 1951, when Rose was a nurse at MacDill Airforce Base in Florida, that she met patient Charles (Chuck or Fred), a World War II and Korean War veteran. Rose and Charles would later wed ...

Okinawa observed the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, one of the deadliest campaigns of the Second ...

Fluent in German and passing as an Aryan, she once crossed into Germany, uncovered Nazi military secrets and nursed a wounded ...