The 107-year-old album also sheds light on the character and sense of humour of the heroes sent into a war that cost the lives of around 40 million people, both military and civilian.

Army Nurses from Bataan and Corregidor, freed after three years imprisonment in Santo Tomas Interment Compound, climb into trucks on Feb. 12, 1945, as they leave Manila, Luzon, headed home.

Little-Upah followed in her mother’s footsteps, becoming an Army nurse herself in 1966. She was deployed to Vietnam in 1968, and later served during Desert Storm in 1991 – a war she thinks ...

When Army nurse Mildred Bianchi landed on the tiny island of Pantelleria in June 1943, conditions in its tent hospital were primitive at best. There was no running water or electricity in the ...

Auclair, who served as an army nurse during the Vietnam War, is currently much in demand by local book groups whose members have read and enjoyed Kristan Hannah’s best-seller, “The Women.” ...

With the rescue team now on site at the island, the marooned Army nurses could finally breathe easy, their day of excitement winding down. Except for nurse Ruth Ann Tonry, that is. Her heart was ...

She also instructed nursing assistants and worked with the criminally insane. She retired from nursing in June 1973. Description World War II Victory Medal and ribbon bar owned by Lt. Louise Lomax, ...

More than 59,000 Army nurses and 14,000 Navy nurses had volunteered to serve by the end of World War II. They received more than 1,500 medals, citations and commendations during the war, ...