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Photographer: Devry Becker Jones (CC0)
Taken: December 24, 2019
Caption: Signage on the perimeter of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Additional Description: 1956
The first woman in the U.S. Armed Forces to be promoted to a general officer rank, Brigadier General Anna V. Mae McCabe Hays, became head nurse at Walter Reed in 1956 following her service in the Army Nurse Corps during WWII and the Korean war.
Submitted: December 24, 2019, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p505934
File Size: 6.224 Megabytes

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