World War II Allied Nursing Services by Martin Brayley

Author:Martin Brayley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: World War II Allied Nursing Services
ISBN: 9781780964492
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2011-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

Female medical officers

In April 1943, Congress announced that ‘During the present war and for six months thereafter there shall be included in the Medical Departments of the Army and Navy such licensed female physicians and surgeons as the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may consider necessary’. These female officers were appointed as temporary Reserve officers of the Army or Navy with equal status. Women medical officers were employed by the US Army in the same manner as those in British service; they wore WAC uniform with Medical Corps caduceus insignia on the collar, and the US eagle cap badge on their visored service cap. By Army regulations they were expressly forbidden the use of the WAC off-duty dresses or the ‘old gold’ WAC scarf, which were considered distinctive items to that corps.

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