G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II. by Barbara Brooks Tomblin, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., , $Though scarcely more than 57, nurses strong at the time of Japan’s surrender, the U.S. Army Nurse Corps performed in every theater of operations in World War II. This book contains a fount of information about how nurses were Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. · Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the US Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over sixty thousand army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches Brand: University Press of Kentucky. Barbara Brooks Tomblin taught military history at Rutgers University and is the author of several articles and books. Start reading G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle?Cited by: 5.
Tomblin, Barbara Brooks. G.I. Nightingales: the Army Nurse Corps in World War II. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, (A wonderful history, including all theaters, full of personal stories). 2 Responses to "Army Nursing in World War II - Training and Rank. Army Nurses in World War II. James Odrowski March 8, am. March 8, The U.S. Army Nurse Corps (ANC) was established in as a permanent corps within the U.S. Army Medical Department. Although, prior to the formal recognition of nurses, women had been providing care to sick and wounded soldiers as early as the American Revolution. G. I. Nightingales-Barbara Brooks Tomblin Recounts the history of the Army Nurse Corps, whose members served with but not in the armed forces, and describes the experiences of nurses in every theater of World War II, including the special situation faced by African American nurses.
"Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60, army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches of Alaska and Iceland, the mud of Italy and northern Europe, or the heat and dust of the Middle East. More than 59, American nurses served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Nurses worked closer to the front lines than they ever had before. Within the "chain of evacuation" established by the Army Medical Department during the war, nurses served under fire in field hospitals and evacuation hospitals, on hospital trains and hospital ships, and as flight nurses on medical transport planes. Barbara Brooks Tomblin taught military history at Rutgers University and is the author of several articles and books. Start reading G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle?.
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