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Monday, February 8, 2016

US Army Nurses


The United States Army Nurse Corps was formally established by the U.S. Congress on February 2, 1901. It is one of the six medical special branches (or "corps") of officers which – along with medical enlisted soldiers – comprise the Army Medical Department.

According to this War Department film, 57,000 women served as Army nurses during World War II.

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