Army Nurse:
The Story of Lucy Addison
This website was created as an 8th grade Social Studies project.
The students created their own fictional personas based on research.
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My Early Days
That Day
Welcome to Nissen-Hut
Try This On For Size
Patients, Injuries, and Risks
Daily Life
Conditions
Statistics
Works Cited
Women in WWII:
Army: 140,000
Navy: 100,000
Army/Navy Nurse Corps: 74,00
Marines: 23,000
Coast Guard: 13,000
Air Force: 1,000
Death By Number:
of the estimated 1.2 million troops that were air evacuated during world war two, there are only 46 documented deaths
there are only 17 documented deaths of Army Nurses during world war two
at a average field hospital, 85 out of 100 troops survived
At The Hospital:
an average evacuation hospital had 53 nurses and 750 patients
an average field hospital had 180 nurses and 1500 patients
in 1942, there were 27,000 nurses in the Army Nurse Corps