Chinese and American nursing staff in the CBI, probably at Yangkai.

Japanese nurses assemble for morning call at the Wuchang Hospital after the hostilities had ceased. Photo by Way. In the CBI.

Miss Ulian Hhoo of Singapore receives the Meritorious Civilian Service Award from Col. Richard H. Wise for her work with the American Army in China. Since August 1943 she had worked in the office of a sector surgeon as typist for the medical supply section, laboratory technician, and surgical nurse in the base dispensary operating room.

Nurse at New Delhi Hospital during WWII. Lt. Betty Cafferty.

1st Lt. Addie Newland, an Army Nurse assigned to the Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, receives Air Medal from General. C. L. Chennault in the CBI during WWII.

Jeanne Porche Morrisey, a flight nurse in India in 1945, posing with a snow leopard and unknown man. Photo by Mildred Miller Barsby, flight nurse of 803rd MAES at Chabua.

Nurse LaRetta Matthews Garland at a rest camp in China, in image from Jim Lewter, who was stationed at the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming. Some of Nurse Garland's story below: From autumn 1943 until summer 1945, Lakeland native Lt. LaRetta “Matty” Matthews was “over the Hump,” a nurse with the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming, China. Five thousand miles...

GIs enjoy refreshments---handed out by a female Red Cross service worker---at a truck parked at the Dinjan air base control tower (62nd AACS), in 1944. 3rd Combat Cargo. Donald Thielen, Crowley, Stephanson, Henry, Gallione, Carrolson, Snyder. Photo from Donald Thielen.