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3rd Infantry Division, 228 98th General Hospital, 224 7th Army, 33, 41 101st Airborne Division, 42 7th Service Command, 97 109th General Hospital, 32 11th Field Hospital, 52 120th General Hospital, 94 20th Infantry Division, 269 125th Combat Support Hospital, 248 22nd General Hospital, 50 144th Evacuation Hospital, 200, 205, 235, 237, 241 27th Evacuation Hospital, 41 148th General Hospital, 100, 102 27th Field Hospital, 62, 67 181st General Hospital, 72 30th Medical Brigade, 229 220th General Hospital, 51 31st General Hospital, 17 227th General Hospital, 51 38th Infantry, 79 233rd General Hospital, 62 38th parallel, 155, 156, 158 235th General Hospital, 43 43rd General Hospital, 43 303rd General Hospital, 94, 95 50th General Hospital, 248 320th Expeditionary Medical Support Group, 281 54th Field Hospital, 35, 42 325th General Hospital Army Reserve Unit, 247 67th Combat Support Hospital, 248 328th General Hospital, 223, 225, 235 67th Evacuation Hospital, 164 376th Hospital Unit, 64 71st Evacuation Hospital, 164 376th Station Hospital, 60, 62 71st Station Hospital, 156 507th Main Force Company, 228 81st Field Hospital, 31, 35, 37, 39, 43, 44 566th Area Support Medical Company 83rd General Hospital, 112 (ASMC), 229 85th Station Hospital, 81 807th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, 111 95th Army Hospital, 187 934th Forward Surgical Team, 225, 233

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Abegglen, JoAnn Coursey, 168–73 Bennett, Wallace F., 153 Ade, Wylma Jane Callahan, 16–20 Benson, Eva, 146 Admiral Capps, 61 Bethesda Naval Hospital, 80 Air Force Reserves, 169 Betensen, Druce, 148 medevac unit, 169 Bickerdyke, Mary Jane, 2, 3, 162 Alley, Laura Ellen, 20–22 Bilibid Prison, 49 Allied forces, 60, 64, 139 Bird, Dorothy, 148 American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, 14 Birmingham General Hospital, 21, 31, 43 American Civil War, 3, 4, 9, 162 Birrell, Lynn, 238 American Red Cross, 4, 115 Blackwell, Elizabeth, 195 symbol during the Gulf War, 264 Blad, Kent Dean, 200–204, 208, 245 workers, 96 Blad, Paul Levi, 204–9 Andersen, Rayola Hodgkinson, 116–21 Bolton Act, 146 Andes, 50 Bolton, Frances Payne, 136 Andrus, Alice Lofgren, 22–27 Bond, A. Elaine, 271–78 Anzio Beach, 15, 53 Bowman Field, 111 Arlington Hospital, 273, 276 Branch Agricultural College (BAC), 142 Armstrong, Virginia Scherbel, 27, 28 Brazil, 97 Army Air Corps (ANC), 110 Brigham Young University (BYU), 157 Army-Air Force Nurse Corps, 46 Brim, Katherine, 146 Army and Navy Nurse Corps, 14 Britannica, 112 Army National Guard, 205, 223 British Nurses Registration Act, 11 Army Navy General Hospital, 105 Britton, Alt, 187 Army Nurse Corps (U.S.), 92 Brooke Army Medical Center, 154 application and entrance to, 9, 27, 45, 50, 51, Brooks Air Force Base, 169, 171 55, 59, 62, 102, 159 Brown, Bobby, 148 commission in, 38, 93, 250 Brown, Hugh B., 36, 44 discharge from, 97 Brown, Sherry, 197 service during Vietnam, 162 Burns, Cecil Josephine, 75 service during WWII, 36, 54, 70, 79, 105, 145 Bush, George, 199 Army Reserves, 223 Bush, George W., 271, 279 Army Student Nurse program, 164 Bush, Laura, 277 Association of Military Surgeons, 222 Bushnell Army Hospital, 121 Austin, Ken, 181 service at, 93, 145, 149 training at, 59, 69, 78, 142 Banks, Gerald, 39, 43 Burton, Estelle Morrison, 28, 29 Barnes General Hospital, 27, 94 Barton, Clara, 1–4, 162 C-141, 169 Bataan Death March, 63 Cadet Nurse Corps (Army), 116, 122, 128, 145, Battle of the Bulge, 40, 53, 68, 86, 126 147, 149, 150 Battle of Normandy, 70 enlistment in, 126, 129 Battle of the Somme, 10 induction pledge, 136 Battle of the Wilderness, 3 program, 127, 141, 142, 144, 154 Bauer, Arvilla, 148 Callister, Cyril A., 135 Bennett, Archibald, 117 Callister, Dale, 96

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Camp Adair, 94 D-Day, 51, 55, 86 Camp Beale, 36, 44, 71, 73, 97, 98 Dare, Doug, 37 Camp Breckenridge, 55 Dare, Ruth Udy, 30–39 Camp Carson, 17 Davis, Blanch, 79 Camp Clairborne, 51 Davis, Jerry, 181 Camp Dogwood, 229 Dean’s Hospital in Ogden, Utah, 93 Camp Kilmer, 39, 50 Desert Shield, 249 Camp Lee, 31, 39 Desert Storm, 205, 217 Camp Lockett, 80 DeWitt General Hospital, 60 Camp Patrick Henry, 36, 44 Dibble General Hospital, 77, 78, 149, 150, 154 Camp Roberts, 89 Dix, Dorothea, 1, 162 Camp Sibert, 36, 44 Dobrieske, 32 Camp Spartan, 228 Doerig, Idonna L. Davis, 37 Camp Stoneman, 17, 67, 94 Donnelly, Eileen, 31, 39, 43, 44 Camp Unity, 277 Doxford, Phyllis C., 174 Camp White, 30, 38, 80, 93 Duke, Mary Jane, 146 Campbell, Leona Berg, 29 Durban Castle, 52 Captain Corey (Corley), 40 Captain Corley (Corey), 33 Edvalson, Beth Smith, 121–23 Carling, Ann, 5 Edwards, Bertha Pearson, 126 Carter, Aubrey, 95 Edwards, David Samuel, 126 CCC Program, 79 Edwards, Paul, 156 Chamberlain, Olin B., 76 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 161 Chandler, James J., 45 Elliott, Larue Haynie, 30, 33–37 Chandler, Samuel C., 46 Elliott, Ted, 33, 37, 41, 45 Chelsea Naval Hospital, 29 Erickson, Edith, 146 China-Burma-India theatre (CBI), 43, 44, 72, 81 European theatre, 7, 94 Christensen, Mary, 148 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The, F-15 Eagle fighters, 199 1, 20, 26, 50, 127, 147, 154, 167, 194, 195, 195 Fairmont Army Air Force Base, 46, 110 Climie, Agnes, 11 Falconer, Nellie, 78 Cole, Fenwick, 145 Farquah, Laverne, 53 Collins, 71 Fife, Dove Chandler, 45–47, 110 Columbia University, 149 Fife, Leland J., 46 Comfort, 15, 231 Finehauer, Leslie, 169 Consolation, 6, 24, 25, 27, 156 First Cavalry Division, 180 Cornell University-New York Hospital School of First and Twelfth Division Cavalry, 180 Nursing, 164 Fitzsimmons Army Hospital, 158 Cottonwood Maternity Hospital, 119 Fitzsimmons General Hospital, 27, 73 County Hospital School of Nursing, 157 Fitzsimons, Lillie Jacobs, 47–50 Coyte, Alice, 158 Fort Bliss, 11, 241 Crimean War, 2, 9, 191 Fort Bragg, 159, 160 Critical Care Air Transport (CCAT), 221 Fort Carson, 201, 206, 224, 235, 244 Crystal Night, 55 Fort Des Moines, 51 Cunningham, Jason, 230 Fort Dix, 81

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Fort Douglas, 38, 79, 93 Herron, Susan, 209–23 Fort George Wright, 45, 110 Hessions, Margaret, 77 Fort Hood, 58, 233 Higgins, Jeannie Fort Huachuca, 55 Hill Air Force Base, 169, 227, 231 Fort Leavenworth, 247, 256 Hinckley, Gordon B., 46 Fort Leonard Wood, 16, 17, 180 Hiroshima, 36, 44, 63, 76, 139 Fort Lewis Holy Cross Hospital, 141 during Desert Storm, 227, 248 Ho Chi Minh, 161 during Vietnam conflict, 180 Holy Cross Hospital School of Nursing, 75 during WWII, 20, 46, 59, 75, 89 Hubbard, Bonnie Jean Hughes, 157, 158 Fort Ord, 50 Hughes, Mary F., 129 Fort Pope, 226 Hunt, Delila Olague, 146 Fort Sam Houston, 11, 158, 180, 241, 247 Hunt, Mary, 39 Fort Sheridan, 19, 65 Hussein, Saddam, 199, 260, 263, 279 Fort Sill, 247 Hyatt, Lieutenant (Ora Mae’s husband), 60 Fort Stevens, 27 Hyatt, Ora Mae Sorensen, 58–65 French Hospital School of Nursing, 73 Fullmer, LaRee Williams, 124–26 Idaho Falls School of Nursing, 46 Indiana University, 190 Garff, Wayne B., 96 International Red Cross symbol, 264 Garrard, Edith Maurine Edwards, 126 Iraq, 196, 199 Garret, Lina Jane Stratton, 51–54 Gates, Crawford, 78 Jacksonville Naval Air Station, 28 General George O. Squire, 36, 44 Jacobson, Grace, 237 Godfrey, Walt, 189 Jacques, Vienna, 5 Gorzitze, Mike, 238 Jenkins, Howard, 150 Gottfredson, David B., 134 Jensen, Venna, 148 Groberg, Delbert, 46 Johns, Mary Jane Neville, 65, 66 Grove’s (Dr. D. H.) LDS Hospital Nursing Johnsen, Joyce Gottfredson, 134, 135 School, 29, 37, 122, 126 Johnson, La Rue Tucker, 66–68 Guadalcanal, 90 Johnson, Maria, 37, 125, 137, 142, 149, 150, 153 Gulf War, 199 Johnson, Ruth L., 116 Gulf War II (Iraqi Freedom), 260 Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), 226 Gunnell, Emma Bailey, 54, 55 Jorgensen, Evelyn Plewe, 117, 135–139

Hamilton Air Force Base, 37, 172 Kauffroth, Olive Eloise Crouse, 69–74 Hammond, Shannon Shumway, 135 Kennedy, Ted, 277 Hardy, Ralph, 153 Kerr, Barbara, 158 Harms, Rosemary Clara, 55–58 Kerry, Paul, 2 Harris, Margaret Maurine, 127–29 Klemp, Irene, 95 Harvard Unit, 13, 14 Klipfontein, 17 Harwood, Mike, 240 Korean-Chinese border, 15 Haun’s Mill, 4 Korean conflict, 54 Haven, 156 Korean War, 9, 27, 155–60, 186 Hendricks, Zelta Walker, 45, 46, 110, 111 veterans, 156

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Kremlin, 155 MASH unit, 158, 160 Kress, Kathy, 195 Mayland, Elizabeth Anna Gleason, 81–84 Kungsholm, 81 McColley, Steven, 223 Kuwait, 196, 199 McCord Air Force Base, 172 McGee, M. K., 76 Lakenheath Air Force Base, 280 McKay, David O., 73, 150 Lambert, Edith, 146 Medical Administrative Corps, 89 Lamoreaux, Lola Prestwich, 74–79 Medical Service Corps, 250 Landstuhl Hospital, 209 Mercy College of Nursing, 65 Langley Air Force Base, 199 Mercy (hospital ship), 196 Larkin, Thelma, 74 Monterey, 90, 94 LDS Hospital, 141, 142 Moring, John B., 44 training at, 54, 92, 116, 124, 128, 136, Morris, Alexander M., 84–87 137, 146 Mother Teresa, 7 working at, 36, 45 Mountain Home Air Force Base, 176 LDS Hospital Idaho Falls, 47, 50, 54 MUST unit, 190 LDS Hospital Nurses’ Home, 116, 126, 136, 146, 147, 148, 149, 152 Nagasaki, 63, 76, 96, 139 National Army Medical Department’s Augmen- LDS Hospital School of Nursing, 149 tation Detachment (NAAD), 224 graduation from, 20, 70, 146 National Guard, 200 student nurses at, 69, 87, 106 Naval Ammunitions Depot Station Hospital, 80 Leader, Charlotta, 279–82 Naval Hospital Camp LeJeune, 81 Leader, Nathan, 280 Naval Regional Medical Center, 248, 282 Letterman General Hospital, 78, 79, 112, 149, Navy Enlisted Nursing Education Program 152, 153 (NENEP), 186 Liberty ships, 98 Navy Medical Reserve Unit Fort Douglas, 186 Lilley, Lawrence W., 75 Navy Nurse Corps (U.S.), 14, 66, 81 Lindley, Mildred Jane Barker, 139–41 Navy Reserve, 195, 197 Long Beach Naval Hospital, 66 Nehenta Bay, 46 Los Angeles County General Hospital, 22 New Kent, 91 Love, Blanche Whiting Love, 79, 80 Nielsen, Adrienne, 239 Lowery, Fern Maurine Gore, 141, 142 Nielsen, Deanna, 235–40 Nielsen, Jay, 235 MacArthur, Douglas T., 18, 155 Nielsen, Lindsie, 239 Macaw General Hospital, 21 Nielsen, Nathan, 239 Mace, Barbara Jean Bowman, 142–144 Nightingale, Florence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 146, 162 Madigan Army Hospital, 158 Ninth Service Command, 59, 76 Madigan General Hospital, 75 Nix Memorial Hospital, 154 Madley, Gertrude, 13, 14 Norman, Elizabeth M., 163 Madsen, Gladys, 80, 81 Normandy Beach, 86 Maiben, Dora, 11, 12 invasion, 138 Marigold, 64 North Korea, 155 Marine Corps Recruiting Depot (MCRD), 282 North Vietnamese, 183 Marsh, Nina Maughan, 144 Nurse Cadet Corps, 69, 92 Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, 28 Nurse Corps Candidate Program, 162

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Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, 22, 23, 196 Redd, Maude, 79 Oakland Naval Hospital, 80 Reiser, Betty Jo Carter, 146–54 Office of War Information, 144 Reiser, Hamer, 148, 149, 152 Officer Training School, 192 Repose (hospital ship), 156, 186 Ogden Regional Medical Center, 223 Rhein-Main Air Force Base, 224 Olsen, Roy, 84 Rich, Elna, 93 Olson, Ernest L. (Roy), 89 Richards, LeGrand, 150, 153 Olson, Mary Harris, 87–89 Richards, J. Morris, 96 Operation Desert Shield, 199 Richardson, LaVerne, 60, 62, 74 Operation Desert Storm (the Gulf War), 7, 9, Roosevelt, Eleanor, 92 27, 280 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 28, 144, 145 Operation Enduring Freedom, 197, 279 Rumsfeld, Donald, 229 Operation Iraqi Freedom, 209 Rushton, Patricia, 191–97 Operation Restore Hope, 211, 217 Rutter, Rex P., 75 Operation Sea Signal, 280 Ryder Trauma Training Center, 227 Orr, Margaret Ann, 90 Salt Lake Veterans’ Hospital, 80 Pacific Air Command (PAC), 176 Salt Lake General Hospital (County), 68, Pacific theatre, 6, 8, 50 130, 137 Pack, VaLaine, 185–91 employment at, 65, 122, 185 Patrick, 71 training at, 66, 80, 128, 129, 150, 153 Pearl Harbor, 25, 89 Salvadore, Ann, 36, 39 bombing of, 13, 19, 22, 28, 65, 136, 144 Sanctuary (hospital ship), 186 Peay, Dorothy Carbis, 145 San Francisco General Hospital, 159 Persian Gulf, 196, 199 San Leandro Naval Hospital, 80 war, 201 Sarnecky, Mary T., 156 Peterson, Eula Louise “Hedy” Welker, 90–92 Sawtelle Station Hospital, 30, 38 Philadelphia Naval Hospital, 186, 192, 193 Schofield Barracks Hospital, 105 Plewe, Annie, 136 Schwartz, Joseph L., 90 Plewe, Merrold, 136 Scott, Jared, 282, 283 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 163 Second World War, 55 September 11, 2001, 271 Rabou, Erma J., 45 Ramstein Air Force, 239 Sessions, Patty, 5 Ranger, 46 Shaw, Artie, 67 Rawley, Ed, 93 Sheldon, Eleanor, 146 Rawley, Virginia Kay, 92, 93 Sherman, William T., 3 Red Cross, 9, 84 Shields, Tommy, 118 General Headquarters, 65, 271, 277 Sinatra, Frank, 71 Nurse Association, 27 Skinner, Evelyn Gunderson, 74 Nursing Corps, 55 Skoog, Alma T., 38 on the Russian front, 7, 55, 56 Smith, Alma, 4, 5 Salt Lake chapter, 272 Smith, Amanda, 4 September 11, 2001, 271, 274–78 Smith, Jamie, 230 WWI, 10, 11 Smith, Joseph, 5 WWII, 17, 25, 32, 77, 85, 89, 98, 149 Smith, Ken, 257

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Smith, Ludona, 257 Uloa, John, 183 Southern Utah University, 142 United Nations, 155, 158 South Korea, 155 Marine Corps Women’s Soviet Union (USSR), 155 Reserve, 37 Spangdahlem Air Force Base, 279 United States Air Force Nurse Corps, 37 Spanish American War, 9, 151 United States Cadet Nurse Corps, 115, 116 Spry, Elaine, 59–63 United States Naval Hospital, 66 St. John’s Hospital, 159 Reserve Nurse Corps, 80 St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing, 97 United States Public Health Service, 115, 158 St. Joseph’s College of Nursing, 159 Division of Nursing Education, 136 St. Mark’s Hospital, 128, 141, 153, 174 University of Michigan School of Public St. Mark’s School of Nursing, 72, 174 Health, 144 St. Olaf, 98 University of Utah State Mental Hospital (Utah), 133 nursing courses at, 128, 142, 146, 154, 169 Staub, Peggy Ann, 150 nursing students, 124, 126, 157, 185, 186, 191 Sterner, Doris M., 156 University of Utah College of Nursing, 205 Strategic Air Command (SAC), 176 University of Utah Medical School, 134, 191 U.S. Army Cadet Nurse Corps, 74, 75 Sumsion, Betty, 148, 149 U.S. Army and Navy Nurse Corps, 156 Swope, Ianthe, 156 U.S. Medical Corps (Army), 95, 152 U.S. Naval Hospital 15, 91 Tate, Martin, 92 Utah National Guard, 134 Taylor, Beth, 237 Utah Valley Hospital, 47 Terry, Edla Johnson, 93–97 Tet (Vietnamese New Year), 167 Vandehei, Jean, 91 offensive, 167, 178 V-E Day, 19, 24, 35, 98 Thomas, Henrietta Oberlander, 97–105 V-J Day, 19, 25, 36, 44, 51 Thomas, Thayne L., 105 Veteran’s Administration Hospital (VA), 179, Thompson, Marilyn, 126 185, 227 Titas, Paul, 190 Vietnamese conflict, 162 Tokyo Rose, 71 Vietnam War, 3, 6, 9, 27, 161–97, 240 Tonne, Mary Anne, 62 Memorial Wall, 163 Toomer, Barbara, G. Vietnam Women’s Memorial, 163, 190 Topaz Japanese Relocation Camp, 30 Vollendam, 31, 32, 39 Toren, John, 36 Torney General Hospital, 70, 75, 76 Walkowski, Kim, 240–45 , 37, 169 Wall, Clara, 117, 118, 125, 146 Travis Field, 160, 171 Walsh, Elizabeth A., 91 Tripler General Hospital, 55, 73, 105 Walter Reed Army Hospital, 73, 164 Tripp, Karla LaVore Paul, 106–10 September 11, 2001, 273–78 Truman, Harry S., 156 Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing advisers, 155 (WRAIN), 246, 249 administration, 161 Walther, Kathryn Ray Hiersche, 246–71 Truman Medical Center School of Nurse Anes- Warner, Ellen Poelman, 154 thesia, 223 Washington General Hospital, 276 Tuckfield, Ruth, 79 WAVES, 66, 128

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Weber State University, 223 military flight nurses, 15 White, Vivian P., 153 military operations in, 9 Wiehrdt, Charlotte Sherwood, 111 nursing in, 6, 74, 81, 147 Wimmer, Goldwyn, 78 Pacific theatre, 8 Wise, Ruth, 79 patients, 151 Wolff, Luther H., 14 reserve active duty, 37 Woodland, Althea Rawlins, 112, 113 United States Cadet Nurse Corps, 115, World Trade Center, 271 133, 162 World War I, 2, 9, 10, 11, 150 Utah National Guard, 134 World War II, 14, 16, 75, 129, 187 veterans of, 156 beginning of, 22, 136, 144 European theatre, 2, 7 Yontan Airfield, 63

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