Anna Mae Hays -- an Army nurse who served in malaria-infested jungles during World War II, pioneered the service's nurse corps and became the U.S military's first female general -- died Jan. 7 ...

Having the ability to develop quality long-lasting relationships in a team-first environment is what set the Army Nurse Corps apart from civilian facilities and what drove the Duluth, Minnesota ...

and next year’s 125th Anniversary of the Nurse Corps. Lt. Gen. Mary K. Izaguirre, U.S. Army Surgeon General and Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command, delivered the keynote address.

CAMP ZAMA, Japan — The first woman general in the 196-year history of the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. Anna M. Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, said Tuesday that it was wrong to compare her job to ...

the first African American woman to become an Army general and a former chief of the Army Nurse Corps, died Aug. 5 en route to a hospital near her home in Wilmington, Del. She had Alzheimer’s ...

Liza Mundy is a senior fellow at New America and author, most recently, of Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II. No female officer—the story goes ...

In 1979, she became the first black female general in the Army and the first black chief of the Army Nurse Corps. Credit: Rachel Larue / U.S. Army photo Hazel Johnson-Brown was a determined woman ...

Last week in Washington, Army Chief of Staff General William C ... Hays became Chief of the Army Nurse Corps in 1967. She upped recruitment efforts to send more nurses to the Vietnam War, and ...

She became acting assistant surgeon general and drafted the legislation that created the modern Army Nurse Corps. As director of the "DAR Hospital Corps," she supervised a roll of more than 1,000 ...

She received a nursing diploma in 1941 from Allentown General Hospital's School of Nursing and soon joined the Army Nurse Corps, inspired to serve after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.