She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Nurse Draft

  • Army Nursing

    Source: Aynes, Edith A. “Army Nursing.” The American Journal of Nursing, May 1940, pp. 539”“542. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415295?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • NEWSREEL: 9.6.1940

    President Franklin Roosevelt enacted the Selective Training and Service Act, establishing the country’s first peacetime draft and formally instituting the Selective Service System as an independent Federal agency. Age was originally set to 21-35; later it was expanded to 18-64. As the year progressed, it became apparent that the United States would likely become involved…

  • 100 Young Women Attend Camp Bowie Sick; So Pretty You Wonder About Draft

    Source: Stephenson, Bess. “100 Young Women Attend Camp Bowie Sick; So Pretty You Wonder About Draft.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 1941, p. 18. https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram/127947111/

  • Medicine: Need for Nurses

    In Manhattan, several wards of the vast new Triboro Hospital for tuberculosis have been standing empty since January””there are not enough nurses to run them. In the Midwest some hospitals have closed entire wings, although patients are clamoring for admittance””they have not enough nurses. In Washington, D.C., doctors urged pregnant women to have their babies…

  • ARMY: She-Soldiers

    Though they will carry no guns, take no part in combat, U.S. women will soon be in the war as professional soldiers. They will wear Army uniforms, get Army pay, be subject to Army discipline. Their jobs: cooks, waitresses, mechanics, gardeners, chauffeurs, clerks, secretaries ”” all the behind-scenes tasks which now occupy soldiers more needed…

  • Nurses Wanted: A Career Boom

    Source: Stern, Edith M. “Nurses Wanted: A Career Boom.” Survey Graphic, Feb. 1942, pp. 79”“81.

  • Speeding Up Production of Nurses

    Source: Tracy, Margaret A. “Speeding Up Production of Nurses.” The American Journal of Nursing, Feb. 1942, pp. 193”“195. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416176

  • Nursing Schools and National Defense

    Source: Wheeler, Claribel A. “Nursing Schools and National Defense.” The American Journal of Nursing, Feb. 1942, pp. 182”“191. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416174?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • Letters from Readers: The Honor Column

    Source: “Letters from Readers: The Honor Column.” The American Journal of Nursing, Apr. 1942, pp. 425”“426. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415486