Helen Kyrios collection, 1883-1979.
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United States. Navy Nurse Corps
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The Navy Nurse Corps was authorized by Congress on 13 May 1908 after several years of legislative effort by Navy officials. Patterened after the Army Nurse Corps, the Navy Nurse Corps consisted of a Superintendent in charge of 20 nurses. By the eve of American entry into World War I, they numbered 446. After rising to a wartime high of 1,386, their number was reduced to about 500 by 1928. In 1939, the Naval Reserve Act authorized the recruitment of women into the Reserve Nurse Coprs. More than 1...
Kyrios, Helen
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Nurse; served in the Navy Nurse Corps. From the description of Helen Kyrios collection, 1883-1979. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70970429 ...
United States. Navy
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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...
