The United States Navy Nurse Corps was officially established by Congress in 1908; however, unofficially, women had been working as nurses aboard Navy ships and in Navy hospitals for nearly 100 years.
Group photograph of the first twenty Navy nurses, appointed in 1908
USS Red Rover by F. Muller
Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee
Nurse Hazel Herringshaw and two Marine Corps patients, 1918
The United States Army Nurse Corps was formally established by the U.S. Congress in 1901. It is one of the six medical special branches of officers which – along with medical enlisted soldiers – compr
United States Navy Nurse Corps
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World War II Army Nurse Corps recruiting poster
Five American Civil War nurses at 1916 Massachusetts encampment; Helen E. Smith, Susan C. Mills, Margaret Hamilton, Mary E. Smith, and Lovisa Tyson.
Nurses during the American Civil War
1917 Army Nurse Corps Uniform Coat