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G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II.(Book review)

By Ashcroft, Bruce
Publication: Air Power History
Date: Thursday, March 22 2007

G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II. By Barbara Brooks Tomblin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Notes. Map. Bibliography. Index. Pp. viii, 254. $26.95 Paperback ISBN: 0-8131-9071-1

The battle-scarred soldiers, seamen, and airmen of the "greatest generation" have been feted and honored and had their stories told large in recent years. This book tells the story of the nearly 60,000 nurses who comforted the wounded in their time of greatest need and fought valiantly to save their lives. The women of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) were surrog

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