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Welch, Bob,
1954-
American Nightingale :
the story of Frances Slanger, forgotten heroine of Normandy /
Bob Welch.
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
New York :
Atria Books,
2004.
xi, 308 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-287) and index.
Presents the biography of Frances Slanger, a Polish-born Jewish woman who was raised in Boston, and became a nurse attached to the forty-fifth Field Hospital Unit that landed at Normandy after D-Day, and chronicles her dedication to American servicemen and her untimely death when German troops shelled her compound.
Adult
Follett Library Resources.
20090729.
Slanger, Frances Y
1914-1944.
United States
Army Nurse Corps
Biography.
Nurses
United States
Biography.
World War, 1939-1945
Medical care
United States.
World War, 1939-1945
Campaigns
France
Normandy.
World War, 1939-1945
Campaigns
Normandy (France.)