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Weaving along information from standard sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin provides first full-length account of the united states Military Nurse Corps in the next World Battle. She explains how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, looked after ill and wounded American soldiers in every theatre of the war, providing in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the iced gets to of Alaska and Iceland, the mud of Italy and northern Europe, or heat and particles of the center East. Many of the ladies in the Military Nurse Corps offered in dangerous nursing homes near the entry lines. 201 nurses were wiped out by accident or opponent action, and another 1,600 gained decor for meritorious service. These nurses address the extreme challenges of dealing with combat and its effects in World Battle II, and their reviews are all the more valuable to women's and armed service historians because they describe the war from an extremely different point of view than that of male officials. Although these were struggling to achieve full equality for American ladies in the armed service during World Battle II, army nurses performed secure equal pay allowances and full armed service rank, plus they proved beyond a doubt their capacity and willingness to serve and maintain excellent criteria of nursing care under difficult and often dangerous conditions.
