Courtesy of the Army Medical Department ... s vivid account of her World War I nursing experience, published in 1927, depicts her work with the first Harvard Unit, a U.S. medical team that treated ...

First, men -- no matter their race -- were unable to join the Army as nurses ... of World War I, but only 18 successfully did before being barred again for the next two decades. As the U.S ...

"Oh, the stories I'll tell when I get home," Army ... nurses from Pennsylvania Hospital Unit #10 who had volunteered to join the American Expeditionary Force after the United States entered World ...

Aurora's Vera Shoemaker -- known by all who love her as "Shoey" -- served 24 years as a nurse anesthetist with the Army ... Shoey saw the cost of war up close, telling us, "You learn how to ...