Topics in Army Nurse Corps History

The Connection

The ANCA Newsletter, The Connection, has since 2009 included a regular column entitled "ANC History," written by the ANCA Historian, Colonel (Retired) Constance J. Moore. We share here these brief accounts of some of the many fascinating events and people in the Army Nurse Corps' past.

• Miss Alice Kemmer's "Golden Deed"
• Army Nurses Care for TB Patients at Fort Bayard, New Mexico
• The Arrival of Nursing at Walter Reed General Hospital, 1911
• Caring for WWI Mustard Gas Patients
• Psychiatric Nursing at Base Hospital No. 117 during World War One
• The Army Nurse Corps and Spanish Influenza in 1918
• The Impact of Relative Rank on Army Nurses
• WWII Cadet Nurse Ruth Sullivan Joins the Army
• 14th Evacuation Hospital on the Ledo Road in Burma
• WWII AN Silver Star Recipients
• Army Nurses in Dachau, 1945
• Captain Viola McConnell and the Outbreak of War in Korea
• Army Nurses and Hemorrhagic Fever during the Korean War
• A Tribute to Katherine Florence Galloway
• 1960 Chilean Disaster Relief
• Army Nurse Anesthetists in the Vietnam War
• Army Nursing at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital during the TET Offensive
• Male Nurses in Vietnam
• Operation New Life, Guam, April-June 1975
• Operation New Arrival, Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas, May-December 1975
• The Pentagon Health Clinic Chief Nurse Remembers 9-11
• Nurses Say It Best: Memories of Operation Desert Shield/Storm
• Remembering Captain Gussie M. Jones, AN
• Nursing on the Army Burn Team
• Army Nurses and Healthcare After Hurricane Katrina
• Iraq and Afghanistan: Nursing with a Twist
• The Germany Front During the Iraq and Afghanistan War
• An Army Nurse Corps Officer's Career

Other Historical Writings and Resources

• AMEDD Office of Medical History ANC History page
• U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center's Army Nurses Reference Bibliography page
       Reference Bibliography document
• Contributions of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in World War I
       An overview written by AMEDD historians for a French journal.
• Life and Work of Army Nurses in World War I
       A podcast in the AMEDD Center of History and Heritage series.
• Army Nurse Corps: Angels in Olive Drab
       Warfare History Network's history of the ANC in WWII.
• World War II Nurse Books
       A categorized bibliography compiled by author Diane Burke Fessler
• The US Cadet Nurse Corps
       A wartime training program that had lasting implications beyond the war,
       from Latter-day Saint Nurses at War: A Story of Caring and Sacrifice.
• Fallen ANC Officers in the Vietnam War
       Remembering the nine Army nurses and one Air Force nurse who died while deployed.
• Ft. Bragg Stories: 'He Stood Out In My Mind'
       A former ANC officer remembers a particular Vietnam War soldier patient
• The Army Nurses Killed in the Ft. Hood Massacre
       Memorialization from the December 2009 ANCA Connection.
• The ANC Officer Who Died at Ground Zero on 9/11/01
• Fallen ANC Warriors in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
       Memorialization from the June 2016 Connection.
• Norma Small, Parish Nursing Pioneer
       A tribute to a retired ANC officer's devotion.
• A Salute to COL (Retired) Rosemary McCarthy
       A tribute to a distinguished ANC officer and nursing historian.