More than 59,000 American nurses served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Nurses worked closer to the front lines than they ever had before. They served under fire in field hospitals and evacuation hospitals, on hospital trains and hospital ships, and as flight nurses on medical transport planes. The skill and dedication of these nurses contributed to the extremely low post-injury mortality rate among American military forces in every theater of the war. Overall, fewer than 4 percent of the American soldiers who received medical care in the field or underwent evacuation died from wounds or disease.
Photos of Army Nurses during World War II:
Army Nurses Arrive in Greenock, Scotland
Mail Call For Army Nurses in Southwest Pacific
Army Nurses in New Guinea Surgical Ward
WWII Army Nurses Attend Classroom Lecture
Field Hospital Army Nurses Arrive in France
Army Nurses Doing Early Morning Workout
Student Flight Nurses Learn How to Handle Patients
Army Flight Nurse Checks a Patient on Flight Over India
Portrait of WWII Army Flight Nurse Reba Whittle
Army Flight Nurse Brings Poppies and Wounded to England
Army Nurse First Woman to Receive Air Medal
Army Flight Nurse Tends to Patients in CG-4A Glider
WWII Army Flight Nurse Aleda E. Lutz
Army Flight Nurse Mary Louise Hawkins
USAAF Flight Nurse Ruth M. Gardiner
Sarah Brody of Army Nurse Corps
Portrait of Army Nurse Ida Fieldman
Army Nurse Doing Laundry in a Helmet
Army Nurses Rescued From Santo Tomas
Former POW Army Nurses Receive Orders
