They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II PDF

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With the insight and intimacy of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the brave women who used any and all resources to save as many lives as possible. Although military nurses could have made more money as civilians, thousands chose to leave the security of home to care for the young men who went off to war. They were not saints but vibrant women whose performance changed both military and civilian nursing. Kathi Jackson's account follows army and navy nurses from the time they joined the military, through their active service, to their lives today.

They Called Them Angels presents the stories of women who lived under extraordinary circumstances in an extraordinary time, women who even today bear emotional scars along with lasting pride.

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• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Bison Books; 1 edition (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803276273
• ISBN-13: 978-0803276277
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 6.1 x 8.9 inches
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They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II PDF

In this well-organized book, Dallas native, Kathi Jackson taps a rich vein of diaries, letters, memoirs, period magazine and newspaper articles to spotlight the story of the 77,000 American military nurses who served in World War II.

These nurses witnessed many of the same horrors as a combat solder. They came under bombardment at Anzio, were taken prisoner at Bataan, battled the williwaw winds on Attu, were torpedoed in the North Atlantic, and crash-landed in the mountains of China. They worked in mobile units and clearing stations near the front lines administering plasma, controlling hemorrhage, and closing sucking chest wounds, often under fire.

In an armed forces outfitted strictly for men, they dealt with a lack of latrines, privacy, and feminine supplies. As one nurse at an evacuation hospital in Africa described it: "We live in tents ... we don't take baths, wash our hair, shave, or wash clothes -- just one big, dirty, happy family." And an Army flight nurse remembered a 90-minute fight that lasted seven hours because of fog: "The worst part of it was that we had no place to go to the little girls' room."

But despite the long hours and the hardships, a little fun did creep in now and then. Some of the nurses recalled dances onboard troop ships, or just on spread-out pieces of canvas with Jeep headlights for illumination. Wherever they were stationed, the nurses were always outnumbered by the men. A couple of nurses in the South Pacific wondered why there was so much air traffic over their sunbathing spot. And nurses at Gibraltar were terrified by the American gun turrets that followed them everywhere they went, until they were told the gunners were simply admiring them through their telescopic sites.

Jackson has done her homework and it shows.