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A nurse aboard the USS Comfort looks over the damage caused to the ship when it was struck en route to Okinawa by a kamikaze pilot in 1945. The plane made it through three decks of the ship, exploding in the surgical deck, where it killed…

This poster is simple compared to some of the other recruitment propaganda used during World War II, but it carries a powerful message. Many feel that women who became nurses during the war were not breaking gender barriers, but the fact that they…

Like Dorothy Baggett, a nurse mentioned in the item entitled "Dachau" in this collection, seventy-nine other nurses were present with the 116th and 127th Evacuation Hospital crews to treat the survivors of Dachau Concentration Camp. The photo here is…

This image of US Army Nurse Dorothy Baggett at Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany, is a valuable representative of the darkest parts of World War II, and how even American military nurses experienced these horrors.

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These women, tip-toeing through the muddy slush surrounding the tent they call, "The Powder Room," in their pajamas, are the epitome of some of the more comical struggles World War II nurses faced on the front lines. Serving in the Mediterranean…

In one picture shown here, Lt. Mae Olsen of the United States Army Nurse Corps, is shown writing down the name of the soldier who is being placed by gurney into an US Army Air Force aerial evacuation plane in Guadalcanal on the Solomon Islands.…

This group, part of a contingent of 15 army nurses serving at the segregated all African American 268th Station Hospital in Australia in 1943, is shown joyously opening their first batch of mail from home. One of the most meaningful things a nurse…

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…

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…

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,…