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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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.