Cherry Ames, chief nurse

Cherry Ames, chief nurse

By Helen Wells

Subjects: Nurse administrators, United States. Army Nurse Corps, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Hospitals, Nurses, Islands of the pacific, fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Nurses, fiction, United States, Fiction, Children's fiction, Hospitals, fiction, Cherry Ames (Fictitious character), Military nursing, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: Whisked away from Panama and reassigned to recently liberated Pacific island, Cherry Ames gets two surprises - a promotion to first lieutenant, and assignment as chief nurse to an evac hospital that will soon be built on a neighboring isle. In addition to the heat and the constant work, sick and wounded men, and an attempt by the Japanese to retake the place, Cherry has to cope with the local officer commanding - an Old Army, by the book lieutenant colonel who disapproves of her and her nurses.

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