World War II Nurse Books Books by and about WWII military nurses, mostly overseas Most of these books are out-of-print but available through the Inter-Library Loan Dept. of local & university libraries, and for purchase from online used-book dealers. Alphabetical by author Compiled by Diane Burke Fessler Abbreviations: ANC=Army Nurse Corps ARC=American Red Cross ASG=Auxiliary Surgical Group CBI=China Burma India EH=Evacuation Hospital ETO=European Theater FH=Field Hospital GH=General Hospital MAES=Military Air Evacuation Squadron NNC=Navy Nurse Corps POW=Prisoner of war SH=Station Hospital VRE=Air Transport Evacuation Squadron Abbott, Lawrence O. Out of Albania – From the Memoirs of Lawrence O. Abbott, “A True Account of a WWII Underground Rescue Mission”. 2010. 807th MAES, (also see Braun, Fessler, Gay, Lineberry, Mangerich, Thruelson) Aggeles, Theodora B. Answering The Call: Nurses of Post 122. 2007. Flight nurses, Army & Navy nurses, African-American nurses, Philippines, Occupied Japan, Australia, Azores, Algeria, France, Germany, New Guinea, Iran, Alaska, hospital ships. Ahrendsen, Frances Wallace. From Survival to Arrival. 1993. Memoir, awarded a Purple Heart. 127th GH, England, France. Allen, Genevieve ‘G. I.’ O’Reilly. Chip On My Shoulder. 2003. North Africa 74th SH. Aquilina, LaVada Bishop. Unsung Heroes, Combat Nurses & Army Wives. 1995. 18th SH, 105th GH, 118th GH, 35th GH, New Guinea, Biak, Philippines. 1 Archard, Theresa. G. I. Nightingale: The Story of an American Army Nurse. 1945. North Africa, Mediterranean. 48th Surg. Hosp/128th EH (merged, see Haskell) Arthur, Mary E. Hill. Rebel Nurse. 1959. 135th GH, England. Astor, Gerald. Crisis in the Pacific: The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them. 1996. Army and Navy nurses referenced throughout. Aye, Lillian. Iran Caboose. 1952. Red Cross workers on Trans-Iranian Railroad. Iran, Egypt, Mentions 19th SH, 30th SH, 113th SH, 38th SH, 21st SH. (also see Korson) Aynes, Edith A. From Nightingale to Eagle, An Army Nurse’s History. 1973. Hawaii, 148th GH, personal experiences and ANC history pre & post WWII. Bach, Pearl Will Haugland Taylor. Pearl’s World, Lifetime Memories of a World War II Army Nurse. 1999. Alaska, Canada, Philippines, 133rd GH. (also see Fessler) Baltzo, D. Celebrating Women In WWII, or When Was The Honeymoon. 1993. Nurse cartoons. Barger, Judith. Beyond The Call Of Duty, Army Flight Nursing In World War II. 2013. Thorough history, many personal stories, worldwide. (also see Fessler) Baxter, Kay Thompson. Make Way For The Lady Ensign, An American Memoir. 2016. Puerto Rico, & stateside during WWII, Navy flight nurse post war. Beaton, Gail M. Colorado Women in World War II. 2020. Army and Navy Nurses, Cadet Nurses, American Red Cross volunteers, overseas and stateside. Berendsen, Dorothy M. The Way It Was: An Air Force Nurse’s Story. 1988. 817th MAES Army flight nurse, Europe. Blasingame, Wyatt. Combat Nurses of World War II. 1967. Youth. USS Solace, USS Samaritan, USS Bountiful, USS Comfort, Philippines, 2nd GH, 48th Surgical, 95th EH, 38th EH, 33rd FH, 153rd SH, 140th GH, VRE-1, 807th MAES, (also see Archard, Peto, Haskell, Harper, Fessler) Bonine, Gladys. Reflections of One Army Nurse in World War II. 1996. England, 67th GH. Very good descriptions of patients’ wounds and care. Bowersock, Melissa. Marcia Gates: Angel of Bataan. 2011. Philippines POW. Braun, Eric. Trapped Behind Nazi Lines, the Story of the U. S. Army Air Force 807th Medical Evacuation Squadron. 2016. Albania. (also see Abbott, Fessler, Mangerich) 2 Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation. 1998. 56th EH, 3rd ASG, Okinawa, Anzio, Africa. The Greatest Generation Speaks, Letters and reflections. 1999. An Album of Memories. 2001. 103rd EH, 159th SH, 181st GH, 75th FH, worldwide. Buchanan, Margaret S. Reminiscing: An Account of the 300th Army General Hospital in WWII. 1988. North Africa, Italy, 66th SH, 15th EH. Burrell, Prudence Burns. Hathaway. 1997. Memoir, African-American nurse in Pacific 268th SH. (also see Fessler, Clark) Busby, Anna Urda. Wherever You Need Me, Pearl Harbor and Beyond. 2002. Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. Wherever You Need Me, The Anna Urda Busby Story. 2012. (Updated) Camp, LaVonne Telshaw. Lingering Fever, A World War II Nurse’s Memoir. 1997. CBI, 14th EH, 20th GH, 142nd GH. (also see Moseley) Campbell, D’Ann. Women At War With America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era. 1984. Worldwide. Includes Army & Navy nurses. Carpenter, Iris. No Woman’s World. 1946. Female war correspondent in Europe, 91st EH, 12th FH, 5th GH. Praises nurses. Caulfield, Gunilla. W. W. II Army Nurse June Houghton Sullivan, A Life Story. 2013. 120th SH, England, France. Clark, Alexis. Enemies in Love, A German POW, A Black Nurse, And An Unlikely Romance. 2018. Army nurse assigned to Arizona POW camp. (also see Burrell) Collins, Fran & Martin. Camp Foxley. 2005. British authors & publisher. England, 99th GH, 156th GH, 123rd GH, ARC. Collins, Lawrence D. The 56th Evac Hospital, Letters of a WWII Army Doctor. 1995. North Africa, Italy. (also see Schorer) Cook, Isabelle. In Times of War, Memoirs of a World War II Nurse. 1999. North Africa, Europe, 3rd GH. Cooper, Page. Navy Nurse. 1988. True stories of NNC worldwide. (also see Fessler) Copeland, Jeffrey. Lt. Elsie Ott’s Top Secret Mission, The WWII Flight Nurse Pioneer of Aeromedical Evacuation MEDEVAC. 2020. First aerial medical flight, from India to U. S. in 1943. (also see Fessler) 3 Cosner, Shaaron. War Nurses. 1988. ANC & NNC, all wars, Worldwide. (also see Fessler) Cowdrey, Albert E. Fighting For Life: American Military Medicine in WW II. 1994. Worldwide. Army and Navy nurses and hospitals. Culpepper, Marilyn M. Never Will We Forget, Oral Histories of World War II. 2008. Includes army & navy nurses, worldwide. Daly, H. C. “Pat”. The U. S. S. Solace Was There. CA, 1991. Navy hospital ship at Pearl Harbor attack & Worldwide. (also see Cooper, Fessler) Danner, Dorothy Still. What A Way To Spend A War, Navy Nurse POWs in the Philippines. 1995. Memoir, Los Banos POW camp. (also see Fessler, Lucchesi) DeWitt, Gill. The First Navy Flight Nurse on a Pacific Battlefield. 1983. Iwo Jima. Difford, Floramund Fellmeth. An Angel’s Illustrated Journal. It has taken sixty years to explain why she was On the Mactan and not a prisoner. 2005. Philippines, Australia, SS Mactan. (also see Korson) Dobie, Kathryn S. Her War, American Women in WWII. 2003. Excerpts of memoirs of military & civilians, 300th GH, 95th EH, 48th SH, 67th EH, 10th FH. Dunlap, Lillian. 33 Years of Army Nursing, An Interview with Brigadier General Lillian Dunlap by Cynthia Gurney. 2001. 59th SH, 363rd SH, New Guinea, Philippines. Engelman, Muriel P. Mission Accomplished: Stop The Clock. 2006. 16th GH. England, France, Belgium (hospital bombed), Battle of the Bulge. Farrell, Mary Cronk. Pure Grit, How American WWII Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific. 2014. Philippines POWs. Feldt, Elizabeth Czizek. So Help Me God, Adventures of a WWII Army Nurse. 2011. France, Germany, 200th GH. Fenton, Peter. Olive Weston, The Heroic Life of a World War II Nurse. 2004. Australia. Fessler, Diane Burke. No Time For Fear, Voices of American Military Nurses in WW II. 1996. Oral histories of Army & Navy nurses, Flight nurses, African American nurses. Pearl Harbor, Pacific islands, Philippines POWs, CBI, North Africa, Europe, Russia, Brazil. 4 Fishpaw, Eli & Bernice. The Shavetail and The Army Nurse, The Bride Wore Olive Drab. 1998. Authors married before going overseas, separately, continues after the war as an Army family. England, 106th GH, France, Germany, 100th Division. Flanagan, E. M. Angels At Dawn, The Los Banos Raid. 1999. Philippines, Navy POW nurses rescued. (also see Henderson, Fessler) Flikke, Julia O. Nurses in Action, The Story of the Army Nurse Corps. 1943. Friedenberg, Zachary B. Hospital at War: The 95th Evacuation Hospital. 2004. North Africa, Italy, France. Bombing of SS Newfoundland, Anzio. Friedl, Vicki L. Women in the United States Military, 1901-1995, A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography. 1996. Garrett, Caroline Morrison. Short Skirts and Snappy Salutes, A Woman’s Memoir of the WWII Years. 2007. Army Dietitian in U. S. Army hospitals. Gay, Timothy M. Assignment to Hell, The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A. J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle. 2012. Includes report of flight nurses behind enemy lines in Albania. Savage Will, The Daring Escape Of Americans Trapped Behind Nazi Lines. 2013. 807th MAES in Albania, (also see Abbot, Mangerich, Barger, Fessler, Lineberry, Thruelson) Giles, Donald T. Jr. Captive of the Rising Sun. 1994. POW memoirs of Rear Admiral Giles, captured on Guam in 1941, and 4 years in Japan POW camp. Includes 5 Navy nurses. Chapter Notes should be read. Glines, Edna Lee. Heads In The Sand, 1990. Navy nurse, USS Benevolence, Pacific. Godson, Susan H. Serving Proudly, A History of Women In The U. S. Navy. 2001. (also see Herman, Sterner) Graves, Clifford L. Front Line Surgeons, A History of the Third Auxiliary Surgical Group. 1950. North Africa, France, Germany, Rosters & hometowns. (also see MacGregor) Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga. They Also Served: American Women In World War II. 1995. Nurses in Hawaii, Philippines, Tinian, Middle East, CBI, Europe, diary of flight nurse as a POW in Germany. Gruning, Barbara Gage. Flight Nurse: From Pearl to Tokyo. 2014. WWII Army flight nurse Pacific, Japan. 5 Hager, Alice Rogers, Wings For the Dragon: The Air War in Asia. 1945. Journalist writes about CBI, 73rd EH, 20th GH, 803rd MAES, includes flight nurse’s parachute jump in China. (also see Mosely) Harper, Dale P. Too Close For Comfort. 2001. USS COMFORT hospital ship deadly hit by kamikaze plane in Pacific (Okinawa) Haskell, Ruth G. Helmets and Lipstick. 1944. North Africa, 48th Surg. Hosp. (also see Archard) Henderson, Bruce. Rescue at Los Banos, The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of WW II.