Roosevelt authorized the enlistment of Black aviators in the Army Air Corps ... As the U.S. war machine churned to life during World War II, the need for manpower began to push the limits of ...
The life of Carmen Vazquez Rivera – a World War II and Korean War veteran who died recently at 103 – could be the makings of ...
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - World War II nurse and pilar of the Bryan community, Hazel Von Roeder passed away this week at the age of 102. “A nurse in the army in World War II. She was in the reserves ...
The following texts are excerpts from Diane Burke Fessler's No Time For Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II (1996). The Fifty-Sixth General - Viola Molloy, U.S. Army In July ...
becoming the first Black nurse to be accepted, commissioned and integrated into the regular Army Air Corps, her family said. She treated wounded soldiers in World War II and served as an elite ...
“Today, it would be nothing without [women like Wolff].” According to Steyer, Wolff served as a Union Army nurse in military hospitals, including Cincinnati, Louisville and Nashville ...
Courtesy of the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage. As a German plane buzzed overhead, nurse Helen Dore Boylston dropped face down in the mud. Boylston, an American nurse ...