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June 14, 2016, A Shot In the Arm: 1942. November 1942. "Nurse training at Babies' Hospital, New York. Student nurses like Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, are rendering their country a great service by making it possible for experienced nurses to join the Army or Navy Nurse Corps.
"Relieved of such civilian duties as administering injections like this smiling youngster, graduate nurses are attending American fighting men in distant parts of the world." Fritz Henle, OWI.
Comment: Susan Petty graduated from Linden Hall, Northwestern University and Columbian Presbyterian School of Nursing and was the war photo icon for the national recruiting campaign for nurses during World War II. She lived to be 94.
My comment: Why was the youngster receiving the shot smiling. Perhaps because the nurse was so pretty and young or perhaps the photo was staged and he really wasn't getting a shot. I know I would not be smiling under any circumstances if I was getting a shot.
I Don't Care How Pretty She Was. No Smiles for Shots Unless Alcohol. GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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