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As the need for more women in the Army hospitals during WWII increased, and as recruitment levels remained low, the Red Cross was eventually invited to extend its service as nurses' aids to the men on the battlefield.

At the height of the United States' involvement in WWII, the country needed nurses more than ever, calling upon both young women to get a nursing education and fight and retired nurses to re-enter the workforce. This article comes before Frances…

Lois M. Thompson, widow to Lieutenant Jay R. Thompson, who died in a plane crash, entered the Army Ferry Command Service to follow in her husband's footsteps.

Lieutenant Marion Dubbs, a U.S. Army Nurse, was presented with an Air Medal in Oahu for her work in a medical air evacuation squadron. She was awarded for her efforts in retrieving casualties from the battlefield and safely bringing them to area…