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1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-237) and index. |
| Summary |
"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 theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches of Alaska and Iceland, the mud of Italy and northern Europe, or the heat and dust of the Middle East. Many of the women in the Army Nurse Corps served in dangerous hospitals near the front lines-201 nurses were killed by accident or enemy action, and another 1,600 won decorations for meritorious service. These nurses address the extreme difficulties of dealing with combat and its effects in World War II, and their stories are all the more valuable to women's and military historians because they tell of the war from a very different viewpoint than that of male officers. Although they were unable to achieve full equality for American women in the military during World War II, army nurses did secure equal pay allowances and full military rank, and they proved beyond a doubt their ability and willingness to serve and maintain excellent standards of nursing care under difficult and often dangerous conditions. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Army Nurse Corps -- History.
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United States. Army Nurse Corps. |
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History. |
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United States. Army Nurse Corps.
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United States. Army Nurse Corps -- History. |
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USA -- Nurse Corps. |
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Military Nursing -- history. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1941-1945 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
GI nightingales |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Tomblin, Barbara. G.I. nightingales. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996 0813119510 (DLC) 96001018 (OCoLC)34151132 |
| ISBN |
0813170206 (electronic book) |
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9780813170206 (electronic book) |
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9780813137896 (electronic book) |
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0813137896 (electronic book) |
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0813119510 (alkaline paper) |
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9780813119519 (alkaline paper) |
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