Gathered here for the first time is a rare and carefully chosen collection that depicts the rich and varied experiences of Army nurses during the First World War as recorded by the U.S. Army Signal Corps photographers.

33 Years of Army Nursing is an interview with Brigadier General Lillian Dunlap, reflecting on her 33-year career in the U.S. Army Nursing Corps. It highlights her leadership, challenges, and contributions to military nursing.

Marking 100 years of Army professional medical training, this photographic volume shows the history of a century of training that began at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, relocated to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, after World War II, and continued evolving to meet the needs of military medicine into its present incarnation as the Army Medical Center of Excellence.

Throughout its history, the Army Blood Program has collected millions of units of blood to support US military members and beneficiaries in peacetime and war. Today, it collects and manufactures hundreds of blood products each day for use in military treatment facilities across the globe. This history highlights the dedication of Army Medical Department professionals and the advances that ensure the critical mission of providing lifesaving blood.

Traces the evolution of the corps from its origins during the American Revolution, through its stages of growth and transformation into a separate professional element of the military medical establishment in 1947 and its steady progress during the postwar and Cold War years, to its status in 1994.

From the Book's Foreword: Long-awaited, Mary C Gillett's final work The Army Medical Department, 1917-1941, complete her four-volume study covering the years from 1775 to 1941. Although the Medical Department had improved medical standards and practices because of the latest advances in scientific medicine and was making significant progress toward creating an organizational structure and a supply system able to handle the demands of a conflict of any size, its reserves of trained personnel and supplies were seriously inadequate when the nation entered world War I in the spring of 1917.