A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses.

If Marion Clark Dubbs had been born a half-century later, she might have become a writer. But because she graduated from high school in 1932, she went to nursing school, one of the few fields open to ...

When Army nurse Mildred Bianchi landed on the tiny island of Pantelleria in June 1943, conditions in its tent hospital were primitive at best. There was no running water or electricity in the hospital ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) – A Black woman who served as a nurse during World War II just celebrated her 100th birthday. Dr. Bennie Fleming, from Rhode Island, turned 100 years old Sunday. While ...

This Veterans Day, let's remember the sacrifices made by the Black women who served as nurses in World War II.

WAUWATOSA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Sixteen million Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. Survivors are well over 90 years old now, and there are just 66,000 left. Among them, a ...