Source: “Wartime Confusions and a Draft.” The American Journal of Nursing, Mar. 1945, pp. 169”“170. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416858

Congress, which has backed away from the idea of drafting male labor, moved last week towards the drafting of women nurses. Few Congressmen liked the idea. But the Army says that its Nurse Corps should number at least 60,000 to be adequate; present enrollment is only some 47,500. The Army is convinced that the only…