Word: blanchfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk and Army Nurse Corps Superintendent Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield scrape the bottom of the barrel for nurses [TIME, Nov. 20], let them ponder the fact that there are several thousand registered men nurses in this country legally denied membership in the Army Nurse Corps...
...essential." Major General Norman T. Kirk, Surgeon General, thinks the Army could draw 10,000 from the 209,000 women in civilian nursing without hurting the civilian sick. To 27,000 of these who had been classified as I-A material for Army service, Corps director Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield wrote letters of appeal. She got only 710 replies, only 210 applications...