...II, when he met his wife, Marie Helminger, on the island of Saipan. Marie, born and raised in Wisconsin, was an Army nurse with the 75th Field Hospital. After their discharge, Robert and Marie traveled to Houston, Texas, to be married on...
...graduated from the University of Georgia, University Hospital School of Nursing, Augusta, in 1942. She served as an Army nurse during WWII and was stationed at Station Hospital, Camp Gordon in Augusta, Georgia. After military service, she worked...
...Busbee and her six brothers and two sisters. She was a veteran of WWII where she served in the Pacific Theater in the Army Nurse Corps. Following the war, she was instrumental in the establishment of a Licensed Practical Nursing program at the...
...planned to be a professional journalist. He was one month shy of graduation when he died; Kathy Miklas, a retired Army nurse, believes he died of a pulmonary embolism.A closed-casket funeral was held in mid-November in New Jersey, where...
...Anna Taylor; and great-grandchildren, Jeffrey, Katie, Allison, Jack and Regan. Lola served her country as a US Army nurse in WW II. She is a former POW held by the Germans in April 1945 before her medical unit was liberated by American Soldiers...
...for laughs in the 1959 Cary Grant comedy Operation Petticoat , in which a World War II sub rescues a group of stranded Army nurses. The Associated Press sought permission to interview sailors at Kings Bay about the potential policy shift, but after...
...forget that first. -- Dave and Ruby Bolyard In 1969, at the time of the moon landing, I was a second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps at Fort Benning working the night shift -- so I was asleep during the day. Thank goodness on that day, a friend...
...program director of the second phase of training for nurse anesthetists at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center. Army nurse anesthetists recently received news that should keep them happy. Last month, U.S. News and World Report magazine...
...added assistance this holiday season from Christmas House, organizers said. Christmas House began 40 years ago with Army nurses giving teddy bears to children whose fathers were deployed to Vietnam. Jack Frost and the Flakes, a group of carolers...
...memory of preparing the body of fellow Army nurse Ellen Ainsworth for burial after...Steve did not return. She joined the Army Nurses Corps in November 1941 - a month...wrapping up three years of service as an Army nurse anesthetist in 1945. She'd spent...
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