The establishment of Army nurses have been around since 1901 and Navy Nurse Corps since 1908. The field had expanded over the years into having 59,000 Army nurses and 11,000 Navy nurses by the end of World War II. This amount of people that were trained to be nurses all came to help when Pearl Harbor was bombed. The vast amount of nurses working in Hawaii during the bombing came to the rescue of thousands of injured soldiers requiring medical attention. These nurses were also stationed overseas with soldiers in places like the Philippines. The above photo shows a nurse aiding a soldier in the Philippines as part as their jobs. Some of these women were put into areas where war had taken place to aide soldiers while others worked on bases that helped out with sickness. During the war, men were not the only ones to be taken as Prisoners of War, women nurses were also known to be taken and kept.
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