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31 Wonderful Photos of Brave Women of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps During Vietnam War

The history of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) in Vietnam began in April, 1956 when three Army nurses arrived in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam. These nurses were on temporary duty assignments attached to the United States Army Medical Training Team, United States Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Saigon. The Army sent them to train South Vietnamese nurses in nursing care procedures and techniques, not care for U.S. servicemen.

Instead, the American Embassy Dispensary in Saigon provided care for the American Community and the MAAG advisers. By 1959, however, that facility could no longer meet its mounting requirements. Medical and dental personnel of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force augmented a team redesignated as the American Dispensary, Saigon. This tri-service staffing arrangement, including two Army Nurse Corps officers, continued for the next three years.

The expansion of the war in the Republic of Vietnam placed greater burdens on the Army Nurse Corps. Over 11 years from March, 1962 (when the 8th Field Hospital opened in Nha Trang) to March, 1973 (when the last Army nurses departed the Republic of Vietnam), more than 5,000 Army nurses served in America’s longest war.

The buildup in Vietnam taxed the Corps. Army nurses had to provide full peacetime nursing services in the continental United States and Europe yet simultaneously meet the far different requirements of combat forces fighting in Southeast Asia. In January, 1965 the Army had 113 hospital beds and 15 nurses in Vietnam. The buildup of medical units was completed in 1968 and included 11 Reserve and National Guard medical units. By December 1968, 900 nurses in Vietnam worked in 23 Army hospitals, and one convalescent center with a total of 5,283 beds.

Army nurses volunteered for duty in Vietnam for a variety of reasons. Many felt it was their patriotic duty; others thought of Vietnam as an adventure. One nurse veteran remarked: “We aren’t angels, We are simply members of the nursing profession who have seen the need in Vietnam and are here to do our part.” Another said: “I wanted to be an army nurse and combat is where the soldier is. That’s where I wanted to be.” And a third: “My reason for going was that there were American troops there that needed help. They needed the things that I could give them in my nursing profession.”

30 Gorgeous Photos of Anita Ekberg in 1954

A stunning photo set of Swedish-Italian actress Anita Ekberg was taken by Hungarian photographer Andre de Dienes in 1954.

(Photos by Andre de Dienes)

30 Vintage Photos Showing Life of Atlanta, Georgia during the 1800s

These are what everyday life in Atlanta, the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia, looked like before 1900.

**Alabama Street, near its intersection with Pryor Street in downtown Atlanta, 1890**

**Atlanta in the Civil War, ca. 1861-65**

**Atlanta’s Grady Hospital on May 25, 1892**

**Atlanta’s Equitable Building in 1892**

**Decatur Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864**

**Downtown Atlanta taken from the roof of the Equitable Building, 1895**

**Federal officers in front of a home in Atlanta, Georgia during the Civil War, ca. 1861-65**

**Paddling around Lake Abana in Atlanta’s Grant Park in 1895**

**Peachtree (then Whitehall Street) looking toward Wall Street with the Kimball House looming in the background, ca. 1890s**

**Peachtree Street in Atlanta, GA, 1875**

**Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864**

**Railroad yards, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864**

**Taking a stroll through Atlanta’s Piedmont Park in 1895**

**The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 1895.**

**The construction of the English American Building (also known as the Flatiron Building) in downtown Atlanta, 1897**

**Wagon train leaving Atlanta, Georgia, 1864**

**Wagon train on Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864**

**Whitehall Street (now Peachtree Street) from Mitchell Street, 1895**

**Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1860s**

**A cart on Peachtree Street, near Five Points in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. 1882**

**Students from the Atlanta Medical College pose for a photograph in January 1895 in front of 34 Hilliard Street.**

**Horse-drawn Ambulance in 1896 Atlanta for Grady Hospital.**

**Peachtree Street looking south from Five Points. 1875**

**Marietta and Peachtree St., Atlanta, 1871.**

**1890s view of Peachtree (then Whitehall Street) looking toward Wall Street with the Kimball House looming in the background**

**1890s view of Edgewood Avenue looking east toward Pryor, Atlanta.**

51 Vintage Photos Showing Life in Amsterdam in the Late 1940s

Born 1913, Dutch photojournalist Ben van Meerendonk worked at the General Dutch Photo Press Office of Sem Presser in the late 1930s, but was prohibited from practicing his profession during the Second World War. In 1945, he founded the Algemeen Hollands Fotopersbureau (AHF).

Van Meerendonk mainly photographed in the forties, fifties and sixties, and delivered via his AHF to the newspapers De Telegraaf, De Tijd, De Waarheid, Het Parool, Het Vrije Volk and Trouw.

As a press photographer Van Meerendonk specialized in daily life, the Royal House, and international stars. He won the Silver Camera in 1950, 1958 and 1966, and in 1966 the first prize in the category Photo Stories of World Press Photo with a photograph of the rehearsal for the wedding of Beatrix and Claus.

In 1988 he was awarded the Golden Pin of Amsterdam. On the Haveneiland of the Amsterdam district of IJburg a street was named after him in 2006.

Van Meerendonk died in 2008, at the age of 94. His photo archive of more than 70 thousand photos has been housed at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) since 1990.

These amazing photos from IISG were taken by Ben van Meerendonk that show everyday life of Amsterdam from 1946 to 1949, few years just after the Second World War.

30 Vintage Photos Showing Animals and Their Owners in the 1930s

Here is a vintage photo collection that shows lovely moments of animals and their owners in the 1930s.

40 Vintage Photos Showing Life in America in 1943

**Indiana. A soldier and a girl saying goodbye at the Greyhound bus station, Indianapolis, 1943**

**Indiana. A Greyhound bus station in Indianapolis, 1943**

**Indiana. At the Greyhound bus terminal, Indianapolis, September 1943**

**Indiana. Parents of one of the soldiers on a special bus, climbing onto the baggage cart to look into the bus until the moment it departs from the Greyhound terminal, Indianapolis, 1943**

**Maryland. Sailors at Glen Echo amusement park, March 1943**

**Ohio. Lester Ward, a Greyhound bus driver, Columbus, September 1943**

**Ohio. Passengers in the waiting room of a bus station, Columbus, September 1943**

**Virginia. A girl in her room playing a phonograph at Arlington Farms, Arlington, June 1943**

**Washington D.C. Bob, the bartender at the Sea Grill, 1943**

**Washington D.C. Girl sitting alone in the Sea Grill, a bar and restaurant, waiting for a pickup, April 1943**

**Washington D.C. People in a cafeteria, April 1943**

**Washington DC. Riding on a streetcar, March 1943**

**Washington, D.C. A girl employed by the U.S. government, a new arrival at a boarding house, being greeted by her roommates, 1943**

**Washington, D.C. A slightly inebriated couple at the Sea Grill, April 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Admiring the cherry blossoms, April 1943**

**Washington, D.C. After dinner, a bridge game goes on nightly in the largest room in the boarding house, January 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Beer drinkers at the Sea Grill, 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Columns of the National Gallery of Art, March 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Girl and a soldier came into the Sea Grill separately, but are developing a beautiful friendship, 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Girls employed by the U.S. government in a room selected for them by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) personnel service, March 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Little boy riding on a streetcar, 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Member of the Shore Patrol who helps get servicemen lined up and in order while waiting for special buses to leave the Greyhound bus terminal on Sunday evenings, April 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Mrs. St. Ayr greeting a new girl employee of the U.S. government at the station, March 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Part of the line waiting to board one of the special buses for servicemen leaving the Greyhound terminal on Sunday nights, April 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Sailor reading in line while waiting to board a bus at the Greyhound terminal, April 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Soldier and a sailor on the steps of a monument in front of the Capitol on a Sunday, March 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Soldier buying a ticket at the Greyhound bus depot, April 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Soldier in front of the Capitol theatre, 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Soldiers in front of the Capitol theatre, 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Soldiers looking out the window of the bus just before leaving the Greyhound terminal, 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Sue, a waitress at the Sea Grill serving beer, April 1943**

**Washington, D.C. Woman standing in line with her son until he leaves on the bus at the Greyhound bus depot, April 1943**

**A girl waiting for the bus by a road’s edge. Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, September 1943**

**Miss Helen Ringwald works with the pneumatic tubes through which messages are sent to branches in other parts of the city of Washington D.C. for delivery, 1943**

Photos by Esther Bubley (1921-1998)

The Photography of Alphonse Mucha From Between 1896 and the Early 1900s

Alphonse Mucha began to take photographs in the early 1880s, probably in Vienna, with a borrowed camera. It was not until he had gained some recognition in Paris and sufficient funds that he purchased his first camera. Mucha’s photographic output grew dramatically after his move to a large studio in the rue du Val de Grâce in 1896. In the new studio, where he had considerably more light thanks to large windows and a glass ceiling, he photographed on a virtually daily basis.

Between 1896 and the early 1900s Mucha made a remarkable series of photographs of the models posing for him. The use of photography as an inexpensive medium for preliminary studies was common among Mucha’s Parisian contemporaries. However, Mucha’s photographs are more than just an alternative to sketches because they also capture the inimitable atmosphere of Mucha’s studio – a world of art in its own right. It was in his studio that that Mucha entertained countless Parisian artists, writers and musicians. It was also the setting for one of the earliest cinematic projections given by the Lumière brothers, whom Mucha had met in 1895, and for psychic experiments with Camille Flammarion and Albert de Rochas. In the background of the studies of models, examples of Mucha’s work may be seen, surrounded by his collection of objets d’art, books and furniture, many of which survive to this day.