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Pages in category "Female United States Army nurses in World War II" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
More than 60,000 Army nurses (all military nurses were women at the time) served stateside and overseas during World War II. Although most were kept far from combat, 67 were captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942 and were held as POWs for over two and a half years.
Female United States Navy nurses in World War II (16 P) N. Florence Nightingale (2 C, 17 P) V. Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses (36 P) W. Female nurses in World War I ...
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.
During the war, 19 Navy nurses died on active duty, over half of them from influenza. Three of the four Navy Crosses awarded to wartime Navy nurses were given posthumously to women who sacrificed their lives during the 1918 flu pandemic. Among those awarded the Navy Cross posthumously was Lillian Marie “Lillie” Murphy RN USNR (1887 -1918).
Cadet Nurse Stories, The call for and response of women during World War II. Indianapolis, IN: Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau International, Center Nursing Publishing. ISBN 1-930538-03-0. {}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ; Pouls, Paula Nassen, ed. (1996).
1913: U.S. Navy nurses (all women) serve on the transports USS Mayflower and USS Dolphin. [4]World War I:; 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.
1950-1953: (): Women who were in the Reserves were recalled to active duty.More than 500 Army nurses served in various areas and theaters of the war. [1] [2]Captain Lillian Kinkella Keil, USAF, who had already made 250 evacuation flights (23 of which were transatlantic) during World War II, made 175 evacuation flights during the Korean War.