WOMAN COLONEL
Only One In American Armed Forces . The head of the United States Army Nurses’ Corps, Mrs. Julia O. I- hkke, m the only woman colonel m the American Armed Forces. She is sft. oiu. in height, and wears her long grey hair pinned in a From her desk at the War Department in ■Washington she directs the activities of her corps, sending them to Northern Ireland, Iceland,. .ustralia, and wherever there are American forces. _ Colonel Flikke took up nursing when her husband died shortly before the last war -After the war she served with the United States Army in Tientsin, China, aud in the Philippines. In 1937 she was appointed superintendent of the Army Nurses’ Corps with the rank of major, the highest rank then available to women. Three months ago she was promoted colonel.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 2
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137WOMAN COLONEL Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 2
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