A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses.

Darmstadt, Germany, April 8, 1949: Most likely three former Army nurses, Mrs. Eileen Francis, Mrs. Carmen Sewell, and 1st Lt. Eleanor M. Garen, all survivors of the Bataan Death March and imprisonment ...

Alice Darrow shows a photo of herself from when she was a nurse during World War II, Oct. 23, 2025, at her home in Danville, California. (Laure Andrillon/AP) DANVILLE, Calif. — At age 106, Alice ...

Holley Lynn James was stationed at Fort Bragg when she vanished. She was a soldier, nurse and mother of two who never missed a shift without a warning — until one hot summer night when she vanished.

We have received text from S. 2195: WWII Nurses Congressional Gold Medal Act. This bill was received on 2025-06-26, and currently has 3 cosponsors. Here is a short summary of the bill: The WWII Nurses ...

"More than 10,000 women of the Army Nurse Corps were deployed overseas during World War One. We have reconstructed their experiences from the intimate writings of two brave nurses, Elizabeth Lewis and ...

DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) — At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical ...