A private suite with hot and cold running Navy nurses," he says.

Clothes don't make the Navy nurse, but they underscore the difference in the character's portrayal.

More than 1,476 Navy nurses served in military hospitals stateside and overseas.

Alice Smith, pretty Navy nurse, had an attack of love at first sight.

A second group of eleven Navy nurses were captured in the Philippines and held for 37 months.

During the war, 19 Navy Nurses died on active duty, over half of them from influenza.

They were repatriated in August 1942, although the newspaper did not identify them as Navy nurses.

Though outside the Korean theater, one aviation accident claimed the lives of 11 Navy nurses.

She became the first Navy nurse other than the Director to be promoted to the rank of Captain in 1957.

The sleeve was gesticulating at a fat Navy nurse seated at a desk.