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  2. Ruby Bradley - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Ruth M. Gardiner - Wikipedia

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    Gardiner General Hospital was dedicated 9 July 1944 to the memory of 2nd Lt. Ruth M. Gardiner, the first Army nurse to be killed in a theater of operations during World War II. Lieutenant Gardiner, a flight nurse, was killed in a plane crash near Naknek, Alaska, on 27 July 1943, while on an air evacuation mission. Society, Chicago Medical (1944).

  4. American women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Rosie the Riveter (Westinghouse poster, 1942). The image became iconic in the 1980s. American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.

  5. List of hospitals in Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Maury Regional Medical Center, Columbia; Maury Regional Medical Center (Spring Hill) McNairy Regional Hospital (Selmer, Tennessee) Memphis Mental Health Institute; Memphis VA Medical Center (Tennessee) Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, operated by Covenant Health; Methodist North Hospital (Memphis) Methodist South Hospital (Memphis)

  6. Women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The Soviet Union integrated women directly into their army units; approximately one million served in the Red Army, including about at least 50,000 on the frontlines; Bob Moore noted that "the Soviet Union was the only major power to use women in front-line roles," [2]: 358, 485 The United States, by ...

  7. Voluntary Aid Detachment - Wikipedia

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    Of the 74,000 VAD members in 1914, two-thirds were women and girls. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In August 1914, just after the outbreak of war in Europe, the British Red Cross and the Order of St John proposed to form a Joint War Organisation with the intention of working with common aims, reducing duplication of effort and providing St John personnel with the ...

  8. Mariya Tsukanova - Wikipedia

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    Mariya Nikitichna Tsukanova (Russian: Мария Никитична Цуканова; 14 September 1924 – 14 August 1945) was a medical orderly in the 355th Independent Guards Naval Infantry Battalion of the Pacific Fleet during World War II.

  9. Bristol Commercial Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The First National Bank of Bristol (1905), US Post Office-Shelby Street Station (1900), and Paramount Theatre and Office Building (1929-1930) are separately listed. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and was slightly increased in size in 2017. [1]