Ellis Library & Reference Center librarian Doris Sheldon is looking for Monroe County women who served as Red Cross war nurses. Can you help?

The Department of Defense is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, one the great historical events ...

Combined with major Soviet military action on the eastern front, it helped end the war in Europe. The Red Cross was there ... By four days after D-Day, American nurses and Red Cross hospital workers ...

Find out about our work during the war. War was declared in September 1939 and the British Red Cross joined forces with the Order of St John to help the sick and wounded. As they’d done in the First ...

Boylston’s vivid account of her World ... in the war zone, and many remained through mid-1919. Over 22,000 professionally-trained female nurses were recruited by the American Red Cross to ...

Vazquez Rivera was a pioneering Puerto Rican woman who served as a nurse in the ... Juan), later joining the Red Cross. As ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam ... Women's history is just the latest casualty. Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite in ...

Carmen Vazquez Rivera, a World War II ... later joining the Red Cross. As Vazquez Rivera went to school, Puerto Rico (as part of the United States) got involved in World War II.