Major Barbara Stimson, an American surgeon in Rome, Italy, 1945. 2012.019.162 1

A modern Florence Nightingale, Lieutenant Frances Bullock of the Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. is one of America's army of nurses whose devotion to country comes before regard for personal comfort and security. In ice-bound outposts and in tropical southern isles, wherever the stars and st

Washington, D.C. Now a full-fledged graduate nurse, Second Lieutenant Frances Bullock has entered Walter Reed Hospital where she will contribute towards the winning of the war by nursing America's wounded

Three of Uncle Sam's soldiers stand on the steps of an Army hospital. Lieutenant Eleanor Whalen of Chicago (left), Army transport nurse; Major Edward Rector of Marshal, South Carolina, veteran AVD flyer; and Lieutenant Frances Bullock of the Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. typify the spirit

A thrilling experience for student nurses is the first assignment to the operating room. Student nurse Frances Bullock (left) hands instruments to a surgeon during an operation

Second Lieutenant Frances Bullock applies a dressing to a wounded soldier's hand in an Army hospital

Portrait of Marjory Collins, photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the United States Office of War Information (OWI)

Nurse Frances Bullock wheels a wounded soldier back to his bed in the orthropedics ward of an Army hospital

Julia Stimson, Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, seated at desk; with unidentified persons *Abstract/medium:; 8 x 10 in. or smaller