1838 - The Exploring Expedition led by Lt. Charles Wilkes embarks on a world cruise. 1908 - The first Navy Nurse Corps superintendent, Esther Voorhees Hasson, is appointed. Under her leadership, 19 ...

Frances T. Shea Buckley, RADM SAN DIEGO — Rear Admiral (RADM) Frances Shea Buckley, Nurse Corps, United States Navy, was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts February 26, 1929 to John Edward Shea and ...

And a history-making one. In 1972, after rising through the ranks of the Navy Nurse Corps, she became the first woman to attain the rank of rear admiral. Duerk died on July 21 at 98 at her home in ...

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"The early morning whistles blew, the water craft sounded their signals in passing, an auto truck went thumping by, and the sun shot into the room under the lowered blind with a red and dazzling light ...