Wwii nurse

A World War I nurse and soldier. I like their facial expressions and the way they are sitting.

Four nurses in standard issue Army uniform carry all their gear during disembarkation onto Cape Gloucester, New Britain in August 1944 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

Ensign Jane Kendeigh, flight nurse serving in the Pacific from the battle front to Marianas, Hawaii and Mainland with Naval Air Transport Service Pacific Wing Air Evacuation Squadron (VRE-1). She was the first flight nurse to arrive at Okinawa and first at Iwo Jima. Photo size: 2422 × 3000 Pho

This exhibit from the National Library of Medicine presents a selection of historic postcards that span a century of nursing imagery and investigates the hold these images exert on the public imagination—then and now.

They witnessed the full horror of the front line while saving thousands of lives in World War II, but the Queen Alexandra nurses still found time for romance.

WWI nurse