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First Navy Nurse Corps officer to be a Joint Task Force surgeon, at Guantanamo Bay. 2002 RADM Karthleen L. Martin First Navy Nurse Corps officer assigned as Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy. 2002 LT Patricia C. Hasen First Navy Nurse Corps officer to be formally appointed as a flag lieutenant (e.g., aide) to a flag rank unrestricted line officer.
She was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1909. Lenah Higbee became Chief Nurse at Norfolk Naval Hospital in April 1909. [6] In January 1911, Higbee became the second Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. [7] For her achievements in leading the Corps through the First World War, Chief Nurse Higbee was the first woman awarded the Navy Cross.
In contrast, at the time of Japan's surrender in early September 1945, 479 of the 50,000 Army Nurse Corps were Black, and 6,520 African American women had served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. [6] [7] While Turner and Stimley left the service by mid-1946, Dailey stayed in the Navy after the war, rising to Lieutenant Junior Grade on April ...
The Sacred Twenty were a group of nurses who were the first female members to ever formally serve in the United States Navy representing the Nurse Corps. Officially formed in 1908, the Sacred Twenty made broad contributions during wartime, not only including training of field nurses and disease treatment, but also providing education programs ...
Mary Fields Hall (October 14, 1934 – July 21, 2022) was the Director of the Navy Nurse Corps from 1987 to 1991. [2] She was the first U. S. military nurse to command a hospital. She became the commanding officer at Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in July 1983, and later commanded Naval Hospital, Long Beach, California.
Laura Mae Cobb (May 11, 1892 – September 27, 1981) was a member of the United States Navy Nurse Corps who served during World War II.She received numerous decorations for her actions as a POW of the Japanese, during which she continued to serve as chief nurse for eleven other imprisoned Navy nurses—known as the "Twelve Anchors. [1]
Gibson, director of the Navy Nurse Corps, receives the battle flag of the USS Higbee from Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh, Surgeon General of the United States Navy. Named for Lenah Higbee, the USS Higbee was the first U.S. Navy warship to be named for a female member of the U.S. Navy.
Houghton became the Senior nurse corps Officer, Navy Medical Unit, Tripler Army General Hospital in Hawaii in 1950. She subsequently served as Chief Nurse at San Diego Naval Hospital in 1952 and as Chief Nurse, Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1954. She became the first Navy nurse other than the Director to be promoted to the rank of captain in 1957 ...