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After working so hard to find a place in the US Army Corps, African American nurses were either confined to serving in segregated hospitals, or were forced to provide treatment at home and overseas to German prisoners of war. This photo is of Lt.…

Serving as a nurse in World War II was exhausting, as is shown by the image here of this navy flight nurse, Lt. Mae Hanson, taking a quick nap on board an evacuation craft. This plane was transporting wounded troops from Okinawa to a Marianas Base…

These women have just arrived in France in 1944, after serving the army for three years as war nurses. The typical image of what a World War II nurse would have looked like, especially post-service, is not what is shown in this picture. The image…

Many people are unaware of the daily activities of World War II army nurses. The women pictured here, training in Australia before being sent to work in the Pacific, are participating in an early morning workout to stretch and exercise their muscles.…

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…

This is a photograph of Lt. Aleda E. Lutz, a flight nurse, tending to a patient on board a C-47 in North Africa in 1943. Lutz was a member of the 802nd Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and was killed in a plane crash in France in 1944. The stakes…

US Army Nurse Dorothy Managan, whose story can be found in the "Nurse Profiles" collection of this website, worked with her fellow nurses at Fort Lewis, to train nursing recruits for the army during the war. However, she also served as the head of a…

Here is an example of one of the things nurses had to learn and understand in training before they could serve in the field, especially overseas; geography. Nurses were trained to read maps of the various areas of the front where they would be…

This image shows US Navy Flight Nurse Ensign Miriam R. Serrick, from North Carolina, giving a patient a penicillin injection during an evacuation flight in 1945.

Penicillin, discovered by bacteriologist Alexander Fleming in 1928, was used…

The group of women shown here, while looking relatively pleased and smiling, are standing in what is clearly a cold and unforgiving climate in Adak, Alaska in 1943. These US Navy Nurse Corps members are serving at the US Naval Hospital in Adak, and…