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Nurses on the frontline

In honor of Florence Nightingale, who paved the way for army nurses, a look back at the brave women who tended to soldiers in the trenches

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by Jackie Friedman
May 11, 2016

Feb. 24, 1855

Florence Nightingale makes her rounds in the hospital in Scutari, Turkey, during the Crimean War.

1942

A Soviet nurse helps a wounded soldier at the front.

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Nov. 28, 1940

A nurse continues to work in her bombed-out hospital in London, England.

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Sept. 18, 1944

Mile Mereau — former POW and a nurse of the Belgian White Army — bandages a wounded British soldier in Antwerp, Belgium.

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March 15, 1944

U.S. Army nurses crowd the deck of a transport as they prepare to debark at a British port.

Dec. 31, 1943

A British nursing officer washes her clothing outside of her tent in Kenya.

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Dec. 9, 1943

A U.S. Army nurse, with shoes slung around her neck, wades ashore from a landing craft in Naples harbor, Italy.

1941

A nurse aids a wounded soldier in a field in the former Soviet Union during World War II.

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Dec. 26, 1917

German nurses wearing gas masks administer first aid to soldiers who were gassed on the Italian front.

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1918

American nurses walk through a trench in France.

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Early 1940s

A nurse aids a wounded soldier in the former Soviet Union during World War II.

July 14, 1965

U.S. Army nurses rest on sandbags while waiting for transportation to another field hospital in Vietnam.

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1917

English Nurses decorate the grave of a fallen soldier.

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