She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: women in the military

ARMY & NAVY: What’s Wrong with the Nurses?

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…

April 9, 1945
The Nurses Have Not Lagged Behind

Source: “The Nurses Have Not Lagged Behind.” Saturday Evening Post, 28 Apr. 1945, p. 108. https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1945-04-28_217_44/page/108/mode/2up?q=Lagged

April 28, 1945
Draft of Nurses Called Unlikely

Source: “Draft of Nurses Called Unlikely.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 23 May 1945, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer/138312779/

May 23, 1945
Nursing – On V-E Day and Beyond

Source: “Nursing – On V-E Day and Beyond.” The American Journal of Nursing, June 1945, pp. 423”“424. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416900?origin=JSTOR-pdf

June 1, 1945
Youâ€™re Staging For The States

Source: You”™re Staging For The States, United States Army in the European Theater of Operations, 1945.

June 1, 1945
Getting Rid of the Women

Source: Mezerik, A. G. “Getting Rid of the Women.” The Atlantic Monthly, June 1945, pp. 79”“83. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/06/getting-rid-of-the-women/656199/

June 1, 1945
The 14th Evac on the Ledo Road

Source: Gress, Agnes D. “The 14th Evac on the Ledo Road.” The American Journal of Nursing, vol. 45, no. 9, Sept. 1945, pp. 704”“706.

September 1, 1945
The Nurses’ Contribution to American Victory: Facts and Figures from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day

Source: “The Nurses”™ Contribution to American Victory: Facts and Figures from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day.” The American Journal of Nursing, Sept. 1945, pp. 683”“686. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416609?origin=JSTOR-pdf

September 1, 1945
GI Nightingale

Source: Hockenberger, Margaret A. “Book Review: GI Nightingale.” The American Journal of Nursing, Oct. 1945, p. 875. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416520?origin=JSTOR-pdf

October 1, 1945