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As the United States' involvement in WWII began, the need for nurses was at an all-time high; at an attempt to exhaust all recruitment efforts, LIFE magazine published this cover in January 1942, in hopes of reaching a more expansive audience in a…

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…