Nurses Ready to Help

ID: 2106 ~ Source: George H. Williams papers, #3297, Box 179, Folder 9. The Texas Collection. Baylor University.
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Nurses Ready to Help

The Influenza outbreak took hundreds of lives at Camp MacArthur. Brave young women tended to the sick soldiers throughout 1917 and 1918.

This file appears in: Camp MacArthur

By Amanda Sawyer
Ten weeks after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, Waco was chosen as the site for a military training camp. The United States initially lacked the military manpower needed to fight in the war and needed to rapidly increase the…