Over 50% of the Nurses did NOT receive the olive-drab general service uniform introduced early 1943 (requested by the Surgeon General in September 1942) to replace the (prewar) blue dress in which most of them arrived in the Theater! The situation was to gradually improve during the later ...
Howe moved on to capture Philadelphia on 26 September, but he had to fragment his army to hold open a supply route to the lower Delaware River. On the night of 34 October Washington counterattacked at Germantown, Pennsylvania. The intricate plan, similar to that used at Trenton, called for ...