G.I. nightingales : the Army Nurse Corps in World War II /
"Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky
©1996.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jctds |
Mục lục:
- Mobilizing for war
- War comes to the Pacific: U.S. Army nurses at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines
- Across the Pacific: nursing in the central Pacific and southwest Pacific area
- The torch is lit: Army nurses support the invasions of North Africa and Sicily
- Fifth Army first: nursing in the Italian campaign
- To the Rhine and beyond: Army nurses in the European theater of operations
- The end of the line: nursing in the China-Burma-India theater of operations
- They also served: the Army Nurse Corps at home and in the minor theaters of war
- Peace at last!: demobilizing the corps.