US Army Nurse Corps in WWII – Uniforms Ward and Dress Uniforms At the beginning of the war, nurses wore a white ward dress with the white nurse’s cap on the ward. For outdoor use, they were also issued a set of “dress blues,” a dark blue service jacket and a medium blue skirt...
I made my first trip to Belfast in 1978 and saw mere boys walking around in battle dress with automatic weapons,” Elvis Costello recalled in his liner notes to the 2002 Rhino Records re‑release of his 1979 album Armed Forces. "They were no longer just on the evening news. These snap...