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Col. Florence Blanchfield, Advocate for Military Nurses
Florence Aby Blanchfield, Supervisor of the Army Nurse Corps during World War II, fought for full rank and pay for military nurses. Under the laws regulating military pay, “Women were not persons.” (At the time, the average weekly wage for women factory workers in 1943 was $31.21, compared to men earning $54.65 a week for the same job.) Blanchfield was born in 1882, one of eight children, to a West Virginia stonemason and a nurse. Wanting to follow in her mother’s footsteps, Florence became a nurse, later joining the Army Nursing Corp at the beginning of World War I. She served in France. Read More...
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Aileen Butler, RN
It all started with Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War. Thanks for a great article.
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