On Dec. 20, World War II Army nurse veteran Regina Benson celebrated her 105th birthday, according to a Friends of the National World War II Memorial press release. Born on Dec. 20, 1919 in ...

TAMPA Fl, (BLOOM) – Nursing is more than a career — it’s a calling, one that shapes lives, extends beyond the workplace, and creates bonds that last a lifetime. For the Nurse Honor Guard of Tampa Bay, ...

There was a poignant, patriotic gathering in Brainerd Saturday. Hundreds of people gathered at the Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts, to honor the life of Lieutenant Colonel Hortense McKay, and her ...

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 ...

Hortense McKay, a 1927 graduate of Washington High School in Brainerd, was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal for her work in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in Bataan in WWII. Patricia McKay Broback ...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- 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 woman ...

JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, VA – Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall honored one of the few remaining WWII Army veterans during a matinee Twilight Tattoo performance May 8 at Summerall Field. 2nd Lt.

DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) — At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical ...

This is the fifth of seven articles highlighting the grand marshals of the 2023 Phoenix Veterans Day Parade. PHOENIX — Patricia Little-Upah comes from a military family. “My mother was an Army nurse ...

NORFOLK, Neb. (KOLN) - Governor Jim Pillen and the Nebraska Department of Veterans Affairs is honoring living World War II veterans as a part of the state’s WWII Veteran Recognition Program. On May 29 ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn (WJHL) — In just a few months, Christine Hunter of Johnson City will turn 100 years old. But time hasn’t faded her memories of military service in World War II or her patriotism ...