More than 59,000 Army nurses and 14,000 Navy nurses had volunteered to serve by the end of World War II. They received more than 1,500 medals, citations and commendations during the war ...

Scholberg is delighted to at last bring her mother's telling of her experience in a group of World War II nurses to ...

Within the U.S. military, World War II made the nurse an indispensable ... In late April 1942, 20 nurses left Corregidor on two Navy planes. One reached Australia, but the second had to land ...

Voris, who died in 2005 at the age of 85, arrived at this history-making assignment with impeccable credentials after thriving as an ace fighter pilot during World War II. "I got shot down once ...

working as longshoremen to load ammunition and bombs onto boats to be sent overseas during World War II. A subsequent Navy investigation found that safety on the piers and in the warehouses of ...

HIS NURSES SAY HE WAS ALWAYS ... enlisted in the Navy at 18 years old and served as a fireman second class during World War II. He was honorably discharged and later awarded multiple medals ...

It could be said that a navy sails on its stomach. And during World War II the United States Navy wanted to make sure its cooks knew how to feed thousands of sailors. “The Cook Book of the ...

Eighty-four years after the Pearl Harbor attack, the remains of one of the last victims to be identified from the battleship USS West Virginia have come home to North Carolina. Mess Attendant 3rd ...

Civil rights leaders and families of World War II veterans celebrated the long-awaited ... 258 Black sailors refused to handle munitions, the U.S. Navy said. After threats of disciplinary action ...

A World War II veteran and current Jacksonville resident celebrated his 100th birthday on Fourth of July Thursday. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5968 in Orange Park hosted a special celebration ...