WATERFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Tuesday is recognized as Cadet Nurse Corps Day. We sat down with Emily Schacht at her Waterford home to talk about her time as a Cadet Nurse back in World War II. “We ...

For Velma Carroll Easker and the other surviving members of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, recognition will be better late than never — if it happens at all. Easker joined the Corps at its onset in ...

It was the U.S. Congress, after all, that created the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1943 to fill a critical health care shortage at home. Over the course of the war, almost 125,000 young women worked to ...

At one point, they were 180,000 strong -- women who joined the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in World War II to staff U.S. hospitals during the war years and care for the wounded when they came home.

Poremba, a Massachusetts-based nurse and professor, started the group in 2018 after learning for the first time about the Cadet Nurse Corps, a […] JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Time is running out.

When one hears the words “Greatest Generation,” the home front might not come to mind. The war effort depended on much more than just the infantry who fought the battles and generals ...

In February, Harrow and several former cadets met with US Representative William R. Keating, a Democrat from Massachusetts, to discuss H.R. 1718 — United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act ...

Established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 15, 1943, the Cadet Nurse Corps invited female high school graduates between the ages of 17 and 35 to enroll, regardless of race.

The newest plaque gracing wall space in the Massachusetts State House commemorates the United States Cadet Nurse Corps, and it finally got a dedication ceremony.. Gov. Charlie Baker, R-Swampscott ...

"They saved lives at home, so others could save lives abroad." So reads the plaque at Eisenhower Memorial Plaza in East Meadow, New York, honoring the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps. All told, almost ...

The federal bill -- S997/HR2056 The United States Cadet Nurse Corps Service Recognition Act -- is sponsored by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and cosponsored by Sen. Ed Markey and all nine U.S ...