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Hospital personnel, including Army nurses, assemble at the Hospital Field in Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba in 1899. The Army established the Army Nurse Corps that year. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Center for Military History.

Hospital personnel, including Army nurses, assemble at the Hospital Field in Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba in 1899. The Army established the Army Nurse Corps that year. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Center for Military History.

Hospital personnel, including Army nurses, assemble at the Hospital Field in Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba in 1899. The Army established the Army Nurse Corps that year. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Center for Military History.

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