Deliverance: Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander, Seventh Fleet, poses with the liberated nurses on Leyte on 23 February 1945. Lieutenant Nash is in the front row, second from right. Lieutenant ...
World War II Navy Nurse Alice Darrow’s voyage to Hawaii on a Holland America cruise was more than a trip of lifetime, but a ...
DANVILLE, Calif. - Alice Darrow has been honored as one of the last living links to Pearl Harbor as a Navy nurse during World War II. Saturday, she was celebrated by family, friends, and community ...
Nurse Alice Beck Darrow, a former longtime Lake County resident, met the Navy sailor who would become her husband when he ...
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Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Hear 98-year-old Potosi native and St. Louis County resident Mary Ruth Lenny recall her days as a Navy nurse ...
When Army nurse Mildred Bianchi landed on the tiny island of Pantelleria in June 1943, conditions in its tent hospital were primitive at best. There was no running water or electricity in the hospital ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X When Army nurse Mildred Bianchi landed on the tiny island of Pantelleria in June 1943, conditions ...
“The nurses could not do enough for us. We knew they truly cared about us. They gave us the best treatment possible, and I saw them cry when a patient died.” This is one of many powerful comments from ...
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Tribune News Service) — In March of 1945, there was a parade honoring the homecoming of Lt. Margaret “Peggy” Nash, a U.S. Navy nurse who had served in the Philippines, where she was ...