The Heroic Nurses of D-Day

Health.mil – During the WWII, there were more than 59,000 Army nurses on duty and on the D-Day landings in 1944, U.S. Army nurses played a pivotal role during and after the largest amphibious invasion in history. Nurses were deployed soon after to set up field hospitals and treat those injured.

The following stories and memories are from three heroic U.S. Army Corps nurses who treated the wounded in the days and months following the D-Day invasion.