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Somewhere in the Middle East
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…
Making Bandages
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.
Uniforms
This is a page from the October 1943 issue of an Army Quartermaster Catalog, representing different types of uniforms available for nurses. One common material here is wool, which would be absolutely miserable in warm climates like Africa and islands…
"With Faith Undaunted"
This sheet music by Lou Singer and Pvt. HY Zaret is the anthem of the Army Nurse Corps, entitled, "Song of the Army Nurse Corps." The enthusiasm and loyalty to country evident in the song expose the clear effort to get women to support the war…