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Hospital tents in Alabama.
Rose M. Heavren Collection, Gift of Mary H. Budds, Women's Memorial Foundation Collection.
  Nurses were assigned to military hospitals in Florida, Minnesota, Texas, New York, California, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and other areas. A few Army nurses served at the Naval Hospital in Norfolk, VA. Women also nursed on board the Army's transports and hospital ships.

One nurse recalled sitting calmly on the deck of a hospital ship, sewing on buttons as a battle raged around her.

Esther Hasson who later became the Chief of the Navy Nurse Corps served aboard the Relief. She described the hospital ship's operating room:


Nurses aboard hospital ship Relief.
US Naval Historical Center.

Taking tea in Cuba.
Army Nurse Corps Collection, Office of Medical History, Offic of the Surgeon General.
 
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