Sending Comfort
Dublin Core
Title
Sending Comfort
Subject
USS Comfort, AH-6
Description
This is a picture taken of the medical crew, including navy nurses, aboard the USS Comfort, AH-6 hospital ship headed to the Pacific Theater in 1944. Built by the US Navy, this ship could hold up to 400 patients at once. Ships like this one were just one of the many ways that medical personnel, including women serving as nurses in the military, were deployed to save lives. The large amount of nurses present on the deck of this ship are proof that American women saw nursing as an opportunity and as a vital way to serve their country and participate in the war effort.
Creator
Unknown
Source
World War II US Medical Research Centre: "WW2 Hospital Ships,"https://www.med-dept.com/articles/ww2-hospital-ships/
Publisher
World War II US Medical Research Centre Website
Date
Accessed April 23, 2020
Relation
Naval Order of the United States Website: "An Overview of US Navy Hospital Ships,"http://www.navalorder.org/articles/2016/8/28/an-overview-of-hospital-ships
Format
photograph (jpg)
Language
English
Type
Photograph
Identifier
US WW2 Navy Hospital Ship, USS Comfort AH-6
Coverage
Navy hospital ships of World War II, navy nurses of World War II
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
black and white photograph
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Sending Comfort,” US Nurses in World War II, accessed April 29, 2024, https://usnursesww2.omeka.net/items/show/23.