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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…

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 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 image captures nurses at the 5th General Hospital in France preparing plaster bandages, an important tool used by military nurses and other medical personnel every day during the war.

This is a snapshot of a group of army nurses coming ashore in Normandy, circa 1944. They are dressed almost exactly like the men in combat, and clearly their helmets, bags of gear, and determined faces relay the challenge ahead of them.

Here are two photographs, one of RN Virginia Sneed Dixon during her service in the US Army Nurse Corps in World War II, and the other of her during her interview in 2012. Dixon also served in the Korean War. Dixon was born in 1919, the seventh of ten…

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 group of Navy nurses is working to organize and distribute mail at Pearl Harbor in 1944. They wear the traditional spotless white uniforms of Navy nurses. These women had multiple duties they had to perform, and some of their daily tasks were…

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…

Contrary to popular belief, American nurses in World War II had to deal with imminent danger not only for troops, but for themselves as well. These women were trained in keeping themselves safe, and had to use methods such as the one shown in the…