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Author Fessler, Diane Burke, author

Title No time for fear : voices of American military nurses in World War II / Diane Burke Fessler
Published East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 1996
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Contents Foreword (Senator Daniel K. Inouye); Foreword (Colonel M. Irene Clark Woodman); Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; 1. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: ""Like rats in a trap.""; 2. Pacific Theater of War: ""You can see what men are made of when you get them freshly wounded.""; 3. Japanese Internment Camps, Philippines: ""You don't know what freedom is until you lose it."" ; 4. China, Burma, and India: ""Culture Shock"" ; 5. North Africa, Sicily, and Italy: ""90 mm shells would zoom right over the hospital."" ; 6. England: ""Buzz bombs, blackouts, and barrage balloons""
7. France: ""Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge""8. Germany: ""V-E Day"" ; 9. Russia: ""The Eastern Command""; 10. The 166th General Hospital: ""Raining again""; 11. Snap Shots: ""You never know what will happen when you join the service."" ; 12. The War Ends: ""I can't express how I felt when I heard it was over."" ; Further Reading; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
Nurses -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY -- General.
Armed Forces -- Nurses
Medical care
Nurses
SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Nurses -- Biography
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781609170271
160917027X