Army nurses fill and place sandbags around their living quarters in order to provide better protection against German bombs and shrapnel.
Army nurse digs in on Anzio beachhead as corpsmen set up hospital tents. A few of the news stories published in the United States concerning the bombing of HMHS Newfoundland.
After being struck by a German bomb on 13 September 1943, HMHS Newfoundland is adrift off the coast of Salerno, Italy. Army nurses of the 93rd Evacuation Hospital wade ashore on Sicily on 13 July 1943, D+4. Edward Rosenbaum and a corpsman work to stabilize a wounded soldier during the North Africa Campaign. Helen Molony waits with her belongings for transportation that will move the 48th Surgical Hospital to a new site in Tunisia during the North Africa Campaign. Army nurses just arriving in Oxford, England in July 1942 look for their bedrolls and other belongings unloaded from a truck. Not all of the photos could be included in the final book, but here, we share a unique collection with you.Ĭlick on a thumbnail to see the photo or choose a link below:ġ. While researching this project, the authors received wartime photographs from many of the nurses and their families. In And If I Perish, Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee draw on never-before-published eyewitness acounts to tell the story of the U.S. A long overdue work of history, And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy.And If I Perish: A Photo Gallery of U.S.
Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war.įrom the North African and Italian campaigns to the liberation of France and the conquest of Germany, US Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the front lines with grit, humor, and great heroism.
After years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the Italian front as bombs fell all around them.įor more than half a century these women's experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as US Army nurses.
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