A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses ...

On Dec. 20, World War II Army nurse veteran Regina Benson celebrated her 105th birthday, according to a Friends of the National World War II Memorial press release. Born on Dec. 20, 1919 in ...

A medical state of emergency existed after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. There were only 82 Army nurses stationed in Hawaii serving at three Army medical facilities on the day of the ...

This Veterans Day, let's remember the sacrifices made by the Black women who served as nurses in World War II.

Eunice Littley, of Galloway Township, became an Army nurse during World War II, right after graduating as a registered nurse. She remembers training in Texas and meeting her husband, John "Jack" ...

It was a special Veterans Day at The Addison of Cornersburg on Tuesday as several veterans were recognized with a ceremonial pinning event. Resident veterans Ila Grace Emmitt Cochran, Robert Pittman ...

We have received text from S. 2195: WWII Nurses Congressional Gold Medal Act. This bill was received on 2025-06-26, and currently has 3 cosponsors. Here is a short summary of the bill: The WWII Nurses ...

NORFOLK, Neb. (KOLN) - Governor Jim Pillen and the Nebraska Department of Veterans Affairs is honoring living World War II veterans as a part of the state’s WWII Veteran Recognition Program. On May 29 ...

A Mass of Christian Burial for Mary Celine Dupont Sullivan Huth, 88, of Cheektowaga, who served as an Army nurse on many World War II fronts, including the Battle of the Bulge, will be offered at 11 a ...

In 1940, under growing social and political pressure, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the enlistment of Black aviators in the Army Air Corps. From 1941 until 1946, about 1,000 men were ...