Deliverance: Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander, Seventh Fleet, poses with the liberated nurses on Leyte on 23 February 1945. Lieutenant Nash is in the front row, second from right. Lieutenant ...

A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses.

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She joined the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps in 1944 while World War II was raging across the globe. After being stationed at Parris Island, S.C., she met a patient, a soon-to-be naval aviator, who would ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X When Army nurse Mildred Bianchi landed on the tiny island of Pantelleria in June 1943, conditions ...

Jean Kennedy Schmidt, 88, one of the last survivors of the "Angels of Bataan," the U.S. military nurses who were Japanese prisoners of war for nearly three years during World War II, died March 3 at ...

When Army nurse Mildred Bianchi landed on the tiny island of Pantelleria in June 1943, conditions in its tent hospital were primitive at best. There was no running water or electricity in the hospital ...

Writing a book is, more often than not, something of a solitary experience. And while it’s not that uncommon for two authors to collaborate, especially in nonfiction, three authors collaborating on a ...

There’s quite a story to the banged-up, old bullet that a World War II nurse with strong ties to Lake and Sonoma counties just donated in person to the national museum at Pearl Harbor. And you can be ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Tribune News Service) — In March of 1945, there was a parade honoring the homecoming of Lt. Margaret “Peggy” Nash, a U.S. Navy nurse who had served in the Philippines, where she was ...