A festive ward at Camp Hospital №33, in Brest, Finistere, France, December 1918. Courtesy of the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage. As a German plane buzzed overhead, nurse Helen ...

In 1968, Kathy Shore volunteered to serve as an Army nurse at a front-line hospital during the Vietnam War. Back then, she was freshly 21 years old — and wholly unprepared. Having just completed a ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Juanita Chandler’s father thought it was a good idea. And at age 17, she was ready for an adventure. “I was up for doing what I could,” she said about the decision to ...

Muriel Engelman, a veteran Army nurse who served on the front lines of World War II, died June 30, The Washington Post reported July 20. She was 101. As a second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps, ...

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. — The St. Louis Nurse Honor Guard traveled to Belleville on Saturday to celebrate the life of a World War II nurse. LaVern Bollman, 99, recently entered hospice care. Bollman ...

(NEXSTAR) — As we near the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Nexstar is highlighting the veterans and families who were affected by the conflict, and finding out how they feel all these ...

Evelyn Jean Wright (left) of National City and Marian “Myrt” Wells of Coronado were honored at the Military Women’s Memorial. Photo by Chris Stone Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Evelyn Wright believes the ...

The Mother Bickerdyke Memorial in Galesburg, Ill., represents Mary Bickerdyke holding a cup of water for a wounded soldier. This may be the only Civil War memorial dedicated to a woman by sculptor ...

Nancy Haas of the Avon Lake Historical Society spent over 40 years working as a nurse in hospitals around northern Ohio. Now, Haas is helping to spread the word of some of her earliest professional ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Veterans National Memorial Shrine and Museum will hold an event honoring the life of Civil War nurse and Fort Wayne native Eliza E. George Oct. 22. Better known as ...