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October 24, 2018 Discussion Leader: Larry Arthington A galvanizing narrative of the wartime role played by U.S. Army nurses - from the invasion of North Africa to the bloody Italian campaign to the decisive battles in France and the Rhineland. More than 59,000 nurses volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps alone: 217 lost their lives (16 by enemy action) , and more than 1,600 were decorated for meritorious service and bravery under fire. But their stories have rarely been heard. Now, drawing on never-before-published eyewitness accounts - many heroic, some mundane and comic - Monahan and Neidel-Greenlee take us to the front lines, to the withering fire on the beaches of Anzio and Normandy, and to the field and evacuation hospitals, as well as bombed and burned hospital ships. We witness the nurses - and the doctors with whom they served - coping with the physical and psychological damage done to the soldiers in combat.



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