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This recording shows the upbeat spirit evident in the music of the Army Nurse Corps, but also of the other branches of military service women. These songs were meant to inspire loyalty, patriotism, and courage in the women marching to its beat as…

The brown packets shown in one of the pictures in this set are individual sulfadiazine tablet packages. These drugs were given to each soldier in his first aid kit. These tablets, shown unpackaged in the second photograph, came in packs of eight. A…

These large and small packets of sulfa drugs, specifically crystalline sulfanilamide, were meant to be applied directly to open wounds. Individual soldiers had the small packets issued to them in their first aid kits, and were trained in how to use…

This water canteen was used by one of the nurses who served in the Pacific theater on the island of Bataan. It is unclear whether or not the woman who used it was one of the prisoners of war held by the Japanese on Bataan, but this canteen is…

The food you see in these photographs represents the kind of "chow" that all military personnel, including nurses, had to eat in the field during World War II. Some nurses' most prominent memories of everyday life during their service involved…

The pills pictured are the drug quinacrine, more commonly know by its brand name of atabrine. This drug was the next best thing to quinine, which was not readily available during the war due to the Japanese capture of the Dutch East Indies. Atabrine…

The colorful image shown here, of paper and cardboard packets, are packages containing dried human blood plasma donated by the American Red Cross for the war effort. These packets have a bottle of plasma in them, along with a bottle of distilled…

This picture is valuable for the simple reason that it represents one of the bright spots that nurses serving in World War II encountered on the job that could make everything worth it. The patient pictured is having a navy nurse sign his arm cast,…

This photograph from 1945 is one of the few that shows the full everyday realities involved in serving as a nurse, especially overseas, during World War II. While it is unclear whether or not the donor of these images, US Army nurse Joy Lillie, is…

In this photo, 2nd Lt. Ann Ruth Orrick, an army nurse in the Ninth US Air Force, is fixing her hair in a strangely random outdoor vanity. Orrick, stationed in the Middle East, specifically Bengasi, Cirenaica, Libya, was lucky to have access to a…