"A month later, Peggy Nash began Navy nurse training at the Norfolk Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia — she was 25 years old. After completing six months of on-the-job training, she qualified as ...
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US Navy celebrates the Navy Nurse Corps
Today marks the 118th birthday of the Navy Nurse Corps, created by President Theodore Roosevelt and first staffed by a group ...
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 ...
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. Naval ...
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