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LT Ruth M. Gardiner - first nurse to die in action during World War II, killed in Alaska July 1943. Cornelia Hancock – civilian nurse serving the Union Army during the American Civil War, injured in battle. E. Ann Hoefly - served as a nurse in World War II and was later chief of the US Air Force Nurse Corps. [35]
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.
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 United States (U.S.) Cadet Nurse Corps (CNC) for women was authorized by the U.S. Congress on 15 June 1943 and signed into law by president Franklin D. Roosevelt on 1 July. The purpose of the law was to alleviate the nursing shortage that existed before and during World War II .
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.
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]
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Second Lieutenant Elaine A. Roe, United States Army Nurse Corps, for gallantry in action on 10 February 1944, near Anzio, Italy.