"Our need for many more of these girls is urgent, and this book is intended to tell a bit about the trials and tribulations, the fun and the thrills, to be experienced as a member of the Corps." Helmets and Lipstick is the first-hand account of Second Lieutenant Ruth Haskell,...
Helmets and Lipstick is the first-hand account of Second Lieutenant Ruth Haskell, chronicling her time spent as a combat nurse with U.S. troops in North Africa during Operation Torch. First published at the height of the war in 1944, Haskell's memoir is a classic account of combat...
Helmets and Lipstick , first published in 1944, is a first-hand account by Second Lieutenant Ruth Haskell of her service in the Army Nurse Corps during World War Two. Of note was her unit's presence during the Operation Torch invasion of North Africa in late 1942, where the medical...