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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Powell was one of only 300 nurses allowed to join the Army Nurse Corps under strict quotas. [2] Powell worked as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps based at POW Camp Florence, Arizona, where she was required to help German soldiers, including Nazis captured in Europe and Northern Africa, as black nurses were prohibited from ...
Female United States Navy nurses in World War II (16 P) K. Nurses killed in World War II (10 P) Pages in category "World War II nurses"
Colonel Ruby Bradley (December 19, 1907 – May 28, 2002) was a United States Army Nurse Corps officer, a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II, and one of the most decorated women in the United States military. [1] She was a native of Spencer, West Virginia but lived in Falls Church, Virginia, for over 50 years.
Josephine May Davis (née} Nesbit; December 23, 1894 – August 16, 1993) was an American nurse who served in the United States Army Nurse Corps. [2] She was second-in-command of the Angels of Bataan, army nurses stationed in the Philippine Islands during World War II, [2] who were the largest group of American women taken as prisoners of war. [3]