Author: Margie Bedell-Burke

Red Cross 

Red Cross Nurses Await Arrival of Survivors

November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments intelligence officers, Naval Ordnance Base, Norfolk, Red Cross, ship, survivors, Virginia

Red Cross Nurses and intelligence officers await the arrival of survivors at Naval Ordnance Base, Norfolk, Virginia. Photo size: 2940

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Navy WAVES 

Former Nurse Dolores Czarnecki of the WAVES

November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Navy WAVES, Norman, oklahoma, training center

WAVE Dolores Czarnecki, shown here in February 1943 at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Norman, Oklahoma, was a

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Nurses Model Uniform Stockings

November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments dress uniforms, Navy Nurse Corps, Navy nurses, stockings

For the first time, beige stockings became “regulation” for members of the Navy Nurse Corps to wear with street uniforms

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Navy Nurses 

LCDR Mary M. Neck Receives Bronze Star Award

November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Admiral Harold R. Stark, Bronze Star, england, europe, france, hospital, invasion, Mary M. Neck, Navy nurses, nursing

Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN, presents the U.S. Navy’s Bronze Star award to Lieutenant Commander Mary M. Neck, NC, USN,

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Navy Nurses 

Ensign Models Navy Nurse’s Blue Dress Uniform

November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Daisy Mary Giron, dress uniform, Navy Hospital, Navy nurses, new york, uniforms

At the US Navy Hospital in St Albans, New York, Ensign Daisy Mary Giron, MC, USNR, models the official Navy

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Navy Nurses 

Ensign Models Navy Nurse’s White Duty Uniform

November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Daisy Mary Giron, hospital, Navy Hospital, Navy nurses, new york, surgical cap, uniforms

At the US Navy Hospital in St Albans, New York, Ensign Daisy Mary Giron, MC, USNR, models official Navy Nurses

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Nurses from USS Haven Await POW Arrivals

November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments hospital ship, Japan, Nagasaki, Navy nurses, POW, USS Haven

U.S. Navy Nurses from USS Haven (AH-12) wait at the railroad station Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan, for the first liberated Prisoners

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Nurse Treats Injured Marine in Okinawa

November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments field hospital, front lines, injured marine, marine, mine field, navy nurse, Okinawa, patient

Marine Second Lieutenant John F. Larkin, who was shot in the stomach while clearing a mine field in the front

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Navy Nurses Navy WAVES 

First Hospital Corps School Opens in Bethesda, Maryland

November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Bethesda, chief nurse, Hospital Corps School, Maryland, Mildred H. McAfee, Naval Medical Center, Sue Dauser, WAVES Director

First hospital corps school for the Navy’s Women’s Reserve at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, opened 12 January 1944,

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Nurses Bicycling in Key West

November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments bicycle, bicycling, Florida, Key West, naval air station, Navy nurses, ocean, recreation, seawall, waterfront

Navy nurses enjoying a bicycle ride along the seawall near the Naval Air Station in Key West, Florida, 28 August

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