Army nurse gets her WWII medals

Alice Hargreaves Fay recalls war's good times and the bad as her 66-year wait for honors ends By 1942, the nation was pouring all of its resources into the war effort, which opened up opportunities for women in the military. Nearly 60,000 women in the Army Nurse Corps cared for wounded American servicemen from the front lines of World War II in hospitals across Europe. The nurses served under ...