01518cam a2200325 4500 612762226 TxAuBib 20090729120000.0 040824s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004302207 9780743477581 0743477588 (OCoLC)55489521 ORX ORX BOS DLC ICrlF TxAuBib 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.)