Army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Deloris Buckley (left) takes the blood pressure of a wounded soldier, 95th Evacuation Hospital.

Below, freed American civilian POW's, 5,000 of whom were women and children, line up for water at Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila, Philippines. 

Canada Dry (left) aided in the nationwide campaign to ease the wartime nursing shortage in The Saturday Evening Post, August 18, 1945.

Right, an army flight nurse attends to a wounded American soldier on an evacuation flight from Scotland to the United States, 1944.