Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civilian hospitals and doctors are loath to cooperate, for a very good reason: they hate to lose their help. They will sometimes even go so far as to give a nurse a bad report in order to hang onto her. Civilian nurses, admitting that few of them are downright eager...
But other criticisms cannot be shrugged off. Said nurses in the Corps:
Substance of the Corps's reply to these criticisms: that is the way things are in the Army.
Nurses thought the Corps should get an overhaul. They pointed out that, of some 330,000 registered nurses in the U.S., more than 15% have already joined the Army (or the Navy) Corps; many others, who volunteered, were rejected. To many a U.S. citizen the drafting of any women is...
Preliminary landings were made on several tiny islands west of Okinawa-in the Kerama Rhetto, and, the Japs said, also on Mae, Kamiyama. Then, at 8:30 on Easter Sunday morning, the Okinawa invasion was launched. After a ferocious preparatory bombardment, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. sent the seasoned...