Brave Women in WWII

When Japan bombed pearl harbor they had less than 1,000 nurses then over 59,000 women joined the US army nurse corps in WWII. That was the first war and the first years women were getting out of their homes to go to work. The women went to make money when their husbands were gone, and some even did it just for fun. That is the turning point in history, that is when women started working.

Patients and their conditions
Around 22,000,000 to 30,000,000 soldiers died because of various reasons, such as disease, killed in action, missing in action and held captive and killed. The nurses would do there part to try and save the soldiers if they could but not all that they tried to help lived. They once treated 4,577 patients …show more content…
The battalion aid stations were near the back of war. In the aid stations they did not have as medical equipment as they needed which made their work limited. In the aid stations they only had emergency medicine blankets and few other equipment. Aid station is where soldiers go who are wounded but the station is still on the battlefield. Light trucks and even trailers were sometimes patient cars. Cars or transportation vehicles always covered by some sort of drape when parked.

Nurses had all of the jobs from taking care of people to cover things and blocking roads.Nurses always had to black off roads leading to base nurse and if need to evacuate aid station they were to go into regular tents painted the color of the surroundings.
Nurses had to avoid taking patients near popular landmarks or tourist sites. No shiny objects around while trying to camouflage they would have to paint over. Change camps at darkest of night to blend into surroundings. All stations had a red cross symbol to be identified unless they needed to camoflauge or blend in. If the red cross did need to be covered for some emergency reason the nurses were not to paint over it they were to put a tarpaulin over it.

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