Pfc. Teresa Broadwell Grace, USA
Teresa Broadwell Grace, interview by Scott Baron, 19 April 2006, transcript, The Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA.
Loeb, Vernon, “Combat Heroine: Teresa Broadwell Found Herself in the Army—Under Fire in Iraq,” Washington Post, 23 November 2003.
Pfc. Michelle Loftus Fisher, USA
Michelle Loftus Fisher, interview by Scott Baron, 15 February 2006, transcript, The Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA.
Zdechlik, Mark. “Soldier Wounded in Iraq on the Mend Back Home in Minnesota.” Minnesota Public Radio, 6 August 2003.
SSgt. Jessica Lee Clements, USAR
Claus, C. Todd, “Injury Fails to Impede Clements’ Zeal for Life,” The Journal, 26 August 2004.
Jessica Lee Clements, interview by Scott Baron, 27 February 2006, transcript, The Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA.
Lerner, Maura, “Back from Iraq One Step at a Time,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, 8 August 2004.
Potter, Ned. “Female Soldier’s Recovery Called a ‘Miracle.’” ABC News, 28 November 2004.
Maj. Marie T. Rossi-Cayton, USA
Francke, Linda, journalist. “Hers: Requiem for a Soldier,” New York Times Magazine, 21 April 1991. http://arlingtoncemetery.net/mariethe.htm
Army Aviation Hall of Fame 1992 Induction of Major Marie T. Rossi-Cayton, USA. http://www.quad-a.org/Hall of Fame/personnel/rossi-cayton.htm
“Marie Rossi – Gulf War Casualty.” People Weekly, Summer 1991 p. 12.
The 15 Most Intriguing People of the War: Marie Rossi. Lexis Nexis Academic Universe Database, Spring/Summer 1991.
Vietnam Introduction
Chambers, John Whiteclay II. Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Norman, Elizabeth. Women at War: The Story of 50 Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Powell, Mary Reynolds. A World of Hurt: Between Innocence and Arrogance in Vietnam. Chesterfield, OH: Greenleaf Ent., 2000.
Monthly Rpts, WAC Det, USARV, to WAC Staff Adviser, Mar 70, Jan 71, Jan 72, ODWAC Ref File, Vietnam, CMH.
Morden, Col. Bettie J. The Women’s Army Corps during the Vietnam War: Special series by office of the chief of Military History. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1990.
Staff Adviser, USARPAC, Historical Rpts, 1972 and 1973, ODWAC Ref File, USARPAC, CMH. The last two WAC officers to leave Vietnam (Mar 73) were Maj. Georgia A. Wise and Capt. Nancy N. Keough.
Lt. Col. Anne Marie Doering, USA
Bob and Anne Jamison, informal interviews by Scott Baron, November 2005.
Lt. (jg) Ann Darby Reynolds, USN
Horne, Al. N.H. “Navy Nurse Tells of Viet Raid,” Boston Record American, 9 January 1965.
Hovis, Bobbi. Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963–1964. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1992.
Ann D. Reynolds, interview by Kate Scott, 19 August 2004, transcript, The Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA.
Spc5 Sheron Lee Green, USA
Sheron Lee Green, interview by Scott Baron, 13 November 2005 transcript, The Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA.
Chronological Record of Medical Care (SF600) dated 10 June 1968, Surgeon, 1st Aviation Brigade, APO SF 96384.
Spc5 Karen Irene Offutt, USA
Karen Irene Offutt, interview by Scott Baron, 18 November 2005 transcript, The Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA.
Steinman, Ron. Women in Vietnam: The Oral History. New York: TV Books LLC, 2000.
Korea Introduction
Blair, Clay. The Forgotten War. New York: Random House, 1988.
Chambers, John Whiteclay III. Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Samda, Andrea Matles, editor. The Korean War (1950–1953). The Library of Congress Country Studies. Washington: The Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, Call #DS 932 N662: US Government Printing Office, 1994.
The Korean War in Brief. Office of Public Affairs, Veterans Administration, June 2000.
Walker, Jack D. “A Brief Account of the Korean War.” Korean War Educator. http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/brief/brief_account_of_the_korean_war.htm.
Stump, Shelly. Flight Nurse Honored with Scholarship Fund. Morgantown, WV. West Virginia University Magazine, Vol. 27, Number 1, Spring, 2004.
Col. Margaret Brosmer, USA
Margaret Brosmer, interview by Scott Baron, 29 May 2005 transcript, The Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA.
Chambers, John Whiteclay III. Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Clements, Glen. “Epic Hungham Evacuation Ends; 200,000 Taken Off Beachhead.” Pacific Stars and Stripes, 6(333); 16 December 1950.
Higgins, Marguerite. War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent. New York: Doubleday Books, 1951.
O’Connor, Rev. Patrick. “Catholic Nurse Describes Life on Korean Battlefield.” The New World (NCWC News Service), 16 February 1951.
Strait, Sandy. What Was it Like in the Korean War. New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1999.
Summers, Col. Harry G. The Korean War: A Fresh Perspective. Military History Magazine, April 1996.
Witt, Linda, Judith Bellafaire, Britta Granrud, & Mary Jo Binker. A Defense Weapon Known to Be of Value: Servicewomen of the Korean War. Lebanon, N.H.: University of New England Press/Military Women’s Press, 2005, pp. 192–3.
Col. Ruby Grace Bradley, USA
Bradley, Ruby G. “Prisoners of War in the Far East.” ANC Web site. http://history.amedd.army.mil/ANCWebsite/bradley.htm
Johnson, Laura Kendall. “One of the Most Decorated Women in Military History Laid to Rest.” Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, 9 July 2002.
Norman, Elizabeth. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurse Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. New York: Pocket Books, 1999.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, statement on the Senate floor, in memory of Col. Ruby Bradley, 7 July 2002.
U.S. Army Center for Military History.
World War II Introduction
Caddick-Adams, Peter. Oxford Companion to Military History. UK: Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University, 2001.
Campbell, D’Ann. “Women in Combat: The World War Two Experiences in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union,” Journal of Military History, April 1993.
“Military Nurses in World War I.” The Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA. http://www.womensmemorial.org/historyandcollections/history/lrnmrewwinurses.html
Snyder, Louis. The Long Armistice 1919–1939: Europe between Wars. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1964.
Treadwell, Mattie E. The US Army in World War II, Special Studies, The Women’s Army Corps. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1954.
U.S. Army Women’s Museum, Fort Lee, VA, Strength of the Army Reports, STM 30, 1942–1945
Women In Military Service For America Memorial.
2nd Lt. Frances Y. Slanger, USA
Anderson, Lydia. “Forgotten Hero,” NurseWeek, 18 June 2004. www.nurseweek.com/news/features/04-06/normandy_print.html
Boule, Margie. “Oregonians help remember forgotten heroine of Normandy,” The Oregonian, 6 June 2004. www.twliterary.com/nightingale_oregonian.html
Chaganti, Shruti. “2LT Frances Slanger, ANC,” Army Historical Foundation, Army History Research. www.armyhistory.org/armyhistorical.aspx?pgID=868&id=143&exCompID=32
Welch, Bob, American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy. New York: Africa Books, 2004
Ens. Jane Louise Kendeigh Cheverton, USN
Cooper, Page. Navy Nurse. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1946.
Dewitt, Lt. Gill. The First Navy Flight Nurse on a Pacific Battlefield–A Picture Story of a Flight to Iwo. Fredericksburg, Texas: The Admiral Nimitz Foundation, 1983.
Frachette, Joseph. “Flight Nurse,” Navy Medicine, March–April 1945.
Sutter, Janet. “‘Angel of Mercy Kept Wings: WWII Nurse Still Dotes on Patients,” The San Diego Union, 24 March 1985.
American Journal of Nursing, 45(6), June 1945.
U.S. Navy Department BUMED (Bureau of Medicine) Newsletter Aviation Supplement, 5(1), 20 July 1945.
Prisoners of War
Baron, Scott. They Also Served: Military Biographies of Uncommon Americans. Spartenburg, N.C.: MIE Press, 1999.
Harold Bosner, interviewed by Mary Jo Binker, 27 April 2000, Falls Church, Virginia. Tape and transcript are deposited at The Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA.
Buck, Anna. “POW in Germany.” Army Magazine, March 2000.
Cooper, Page. Navy Nurse. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1946.
Danner, Dorothy Still. “Remembrances of a Nurse POW.” Navy Medicine 83(3), May–June 1992, pp. 36–40.
Grimes, Charlotte. “Women POWs of WW II.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 19 April 1992.
King, Michael J. “Rangers: Selected Combat Operations in World War II,” Chapter 6 of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s Leavenworth Papers, No. 11.
Letter from Capt. Kyle Lawrence, Group Chaplain, Headquarters 27th Air Transport Group—APO 744, dated 6 December 1944.
Margaret Nash, interviewed by Andree Marechal-Workman, September 1992, transcript, Naval Hospital Oakland, Public Affairs.
Norman, Elizabeth. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999, p. 273.
Sforza, Kevin. “Bethesda Nurses Honor Former POW,” Journal of the National Naval Medical Center, 13 September 2001.
Sternberg, R. Return to the Philippines. New York: Time-Life Books, 1979, p. 114.
“Tobiason, WW II POW Finally Receives Recognition.” The Rocksprings Record and Texas Mohair Weekly, 14 May 1992, Vol. 99, No.13.
File # N734426. National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St Louis, MO.
Tobiason, Reba Whittle. Diary of 2nd Lt. Reba Whittle Tobiason. Air Evacuation Museum, Brooks AFB, San Antonio, Texas, not published.
Norman, Elizabeth. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
Sforza, Kevin. “Bethesda Nurses Honor Former POW,” Journal of the National Naval Medical Center, 13 September 2001.
Sternberg, R. Return to the Philippines. New York: Time-Life Books, 1979.
Tobiason, Reba Whittle. Diary of 2Lt. Reba Whittle Tobiason. Air Evacuation Museum, Brooks AFB, San Antonio, TX.: Not published.
“Tobiason, WW II POW Finally Receives Recognition.” The Rocksprings Record and Texas Mohair Weekly, 14 May 1992, Vol. 99, No.13.
File # N734426. National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St Louis, MO.
Recommendations for Further Reading
Baron, Scott. They Also Served: Military Biographies of Uncommon Americans. Military Information Enterprises. (1998)
Bartimus, Tad et al. War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam. Random House (2002)
Bellafaire, Judith, Granrud, Britta and Binker, Mary Jo. A Defense Weapon Known to Be of Value-Servicewomen in the Korean War Era. Military Womens Press (2005)
Bigler, Philip. Hostile Fire: The Life and Death of First Lieutenant Sharon Lane. Vandamere Press (1996)
Burgess, Lauren Cook. An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman alias Private Lyon Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers. Oxford University Press (1996)
Cornum, Rhonda. She Went to War. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992; Presidio Press edition (1993).
Cummings, Mary Lou and Missy, Cummings. Hornet’s Nest. Writers Showcase Press (2000).
D’Amico, Francine and Weinstein, Laurie. Gender Camouflage: Women and the US Military. New York University Press (1999)
Dean, Donna. Warriors Without Weapons: The Victimization of Military Women. Minerva Center (1997)
Depauw. Linda Grant. Battle Cries and Lullabies. University of Oklahoma Press (1988)
Dever, John Patrick. Women and the Military: Over 100 Notable Contributions McFarland and Co. (1994)
Dickman, Diane. Navy Greenshirt: A Leader Made, Not Born. Alturia Pub. (2001)
Doyne, Holly. Kuwait Diary. Iuniverse Inc. (2006)
Ebbert, Jean. Crossed Currents: Navy Women in a Century of Change. Potomac Books (1999)
Fessler, Diane Burke. No Time For Fear: Voices of American Nurses in WW II. Michigan State University Press (1996)
Fiqueroa, Denise. The Most Qualified: A Nurse Reservist’s Experience in the Persian Gulf War. New York: Vantage Press, 2002.
Fischer, Linda. Ultimate Power: Enemy Within the Ranks. Unlimited Inc. (1999)
Flinn, Kelly. Proud To Be: My Life, The Air Force, The Controversy. Random House (1997)
Fortin, Noonie. Women at Risk: We Also Served. Writers Club Press (2002)
Francke, Linda Bird. Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military. Simon and Schuster (1997)
Freedman, Dan and Rhoads, Jacqueline. Nurses in Vietnam: The Forgotten Veterans. Texas Monthly Press (1987)
Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War One: They Also Served. Univ. of Colorado Press (2006)
Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga. They Also Served: American Women in World War II. Carol Publishing Group (1995)
———. A Time Remembered: American Women in the Vietnam War. Presidio Press (1999)
Hall, Richard. Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors and the Civil War. Marlowe and Company (1994)
Hodgson, Marion Stegeman. Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1996.
Holm, Jeanne M. In Defense of a Nation: Servicewomen in World War II. Vandamere Press (1998)
———. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Presidio Press (1992)
Holm, Jeanne M., Maj. Gen. USAF (Ret.). In Defense of a Nation: Servicewomen in World WarII. Washington, D.C.: Military Women’s Press, 1998.
Holm, Jeanne M., Maj. Gen. USAF (Ret.). Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1982.
Hovis, Bobbi. Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam 1963-1964. Naval Institute Press (1992)
Jones, David E. Women Warriors: A History. Dulles, Va.: Brassey’s (1997); Potomac Books edition (2000).
Karpinski, Janis. One Woman’s Army: The Commanding General of Abu Gharib Tells Her Story. Miramax Books (2005)
Kassner, Elizabeth. Desert Storm Journal: A Nurse’s Story. Lincoln Center, Mass.: The Cottage Press, 1993.
Kuhn, Betsy. Angels of Mercy. Atheneium Books (1999)
Leonard, Elizabeth. All The Daring of a Soldier. Penguin Books (2001)
Lewis, Brenda. Women at War: The Women of WW II at Home, At Work, On the Front Line. Amber Books Ltd. (2002)
Lewis, Vicki. Side by Side: A Photographic History of American Women in War. Stewart, Tabori and Chang (1999)
McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. New York: Dell Publishing, 1998.
Monahan, Evelyn and Neidel-Greenlee, Rosemary. All This Hell. Univ. of Kentucky Press (2003)
———., and Rosemary, Neidel-Greenlee. And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Morden, Bettie. Women’s Army Corps 1945-1978. US Government Printing Office
Nathan, Amy. Count on Us: American Women in the Military. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2004.
Norman, Elizabeth. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. Atria Publishing (2000)
———. Women at War- The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. University of Pennsylvania Press (1990)
Omori, Frances. Quiet Heroes: Navy Nurses of the Korean War 1950-1953 Far East Command. Smith House Press (2000)
Pennington, Reina. Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women. Greenwood Press (2003)
Powell, Mary Reynolds. A World Of Hurt: Between Innocence and Arrogance in Vietnam. Greenleaf Enterprises (2000)
Schorer, Avis D. A Half Acre of Hell: A Combat Nurse in WW II. Lakeville, Minn.: Galde Press, Inc., 2002.
Sherrow, Victoria. Women and the Military: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO Inc. (1996)
Skaine, Rosemarie. Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat. McFarland and Company (1999)
Spears, Sally. Call Sign Revlon: Lt. Kara Hultgreen. Naval Institute Press (1998)
Stahe, Mary E. Diary From the Desert. Jona Books (2003)
Steinman, Ron. Women in Vietnam: The Oral History TV Book LLC (2000)
Sterner, Doris M., Capt. NC USN (Ret.). In and Out of Harm’s Way: A History of The Navy Nurse Corps. Seattle: Peanut Butter Publishing, 1996.
Tomblin, Barbara Brooks. G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996, 2004.
Treadwell, Mattie B. The US Army in World War Two: Special Studies – The Women’s Army Corps. US Govt. Printing Office (1954)
Walker, Keith. A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 29 Women Who Served in Vietnam. Presidio Press (1997)
Welch, Bob. The Story of Frances Slanger. Atria Books (2004)