"Nurses were classified as lower than low in those days."

Few nurses can claim the distinction of serving in three wars, and in all of them at duty stations near the action. But Frances Liberty's assignments ranged from hitting the beach at Anzio to supplying a hospital train in Korea to dressing down a derelict nurse in Vietnam, as well as caring for celebrity patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Our Nation’s Capital. Her blunt personality earned her a reputation with her superiors as a straight arrow. She had the pleasure of seeing the status of Army nurses improve dramatically as well as having her father, originally skeptical of her enlistment, send her off to serve in Korea with his blessing.

"We weren't treated any differently because everyone has their own mission."

Jayne H. Cooley's story

"I was sorry at one time that I wasn't a man when World War II came out."

Dorothy Walters Cutts' story

"Many times the guys would wake up and say to you, 'Did I die? Did I go to heaven?'..."

Julia Grabner Haskell's story

"We ran out of bandages ... and had to use the Stars & Stripes newspaper ..."

Jeanne Urbin Markle's story

"The chief nurse told me I wouldn't have got my promotion if she had known I was going with an enlisted man..."

Vera Gustafson Palmer's story

"This time I was not the enemy, but I was there saving lives, perhaps their loved ones."

Carolyn Hisako Tanaka's story