Author : Barbara Brooks Tomblin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2003-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813190792
Recounts the history of the Army Nurse Corps, whose members served with but not in the armed forces, and describes the experiences of nurses in every theater of World War II, including the special situation faced by African American nurses.
Author : Kara Dixon Vuic
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0801893917
Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Vuic allows the nurses to tell their own captivating stories, from their reasons for joining the military to the physical and emotional demands of a horrific war and postwar debates about how to commemorate their service. Vuic also explores the gender issues that arose when a male-dominated army actively recruited and employed the services of 5,000 women nurses in the midst of a growing feminist movement and a changing nursing profession. Women drawn to the army's patriotic promise faced disturbing realities in the virtually all-male hospitals of South Vietnam. Men who joined the nurse corps ran headlong into the army's belief that women should nurse and men should fight.
Author : Helen Wells
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0826175430
In Army Nurse, Cherry has made the difficult decision facing all her classmates - should she enlist in the military or practice nursing on the homefront? She's graduated from Spencer and earned the right to put "RN" after her name, and as an Army nurse, she is now "Lieutenant Ames." The Army nurses are also soldiers, and endure a grueling basic training under the harsh Sergeant Deake (whom Cherry nicknames "Lovey," much to his chagrin). No one knows where the Spencer unit will be deployed until they are shipped off without warning - to Panama City. Who is the mysterious old Indian whom Cherry and her corpsman Bunce find collapsed in an abandoned house? He is obviously very ill, but with what? Can Dr. Joe's newly developed serum help?
Author : Mary T. Sarnecky
Publisher : Department of the Army
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : History
ISBN :
This book focuses on an organization, the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, which the author has been privileged to be affiliated with – in one way or another – for the greatest part of her adult life. As an active duty officer, the author had first-hand knowledge about the Army Nurse Corps inner workings and spent the last years of her Army career (from 1992) researching and writing the Corps history. One of her goals in researching and writing this history was to intrigue and provide a sense of gratification for the reader. After the conclusion of the Vietnam War, several wide-ranging and significant changes exerted myriad effects on the Army Nurse Corps. The most influential of these phenomena included the dismantling of the Selective Service System, the reorganization of the Army, the launch of the Health Services Command (HSC), the opening of the Academy of Health Sciences, the transformation of the Office of the Army Surgeon General, the inauguration of improvements in the Army Reserve and National Guard, and the evolution in the roles and status of women.
Author : Charissa J. Threat
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0252097246
In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter. Each conducted separate integration campaigns to end the discrimination they suffered. Yet their stories defy the narrative that civil rights struggles inevitably arced toward social justice. Threat tells how progressive elements in the campaigns did indeed break down barriers in both military and civilian nursing. At the same time, she follows conservative threads to portray how some of the women who succeeded as agents of change became defenders of exclusionary practices when men sought military nursing careers. The ironic result was a struggle that simultaneously confronted and reaffirmed the social hierarchies that nurtured discrimination.
Author : U. S. Army U.S. Army Center of Military H i s t o ry
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781505617191
A series of 40 illustrated books that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during World War II. Each book describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Author : Lisa M. Budreau
Publisher : Department of the Army
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2008-11-10
Category : History
ISBN :
Contains a carefully chosen collection that depicts the rich and varied experiences of Army nurses during the First World War as recorded by the U.S. Army Signal Corps photographers.
Author : Judith Bellafaire
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN :
Author : Betsy Kuhn
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 1999-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Relates the experiences of World War II Army nurses, who brought medical skills, courage, and cheer to hospitals throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific.
Author : Evelyn Monahan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307424782
In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the Italian front as bombs fell all around them. For more than half a century these women’s experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of reasearch and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war. From the North African and Italian Campaigns to the Liberation of France and the Conquest of Germany, U.S. Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the frontlines with grit, humor, and great heroism. A long overdue work of history, And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy.
