still image Group portraits 1940-1950. gmgpc Portrait photographs 1940-1950. gmgpc Photographic prints 1940-1950. gmgpc August 21 1944. Accompanying caption reads: Twenty-four of the first contingent of Negro nurses assigned to the European Theater of Operations. Front row, left to right: Second Lieutenants Alice Simpson, Atlanta, Georgia, Vernice Eizer, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Catherine L. Harris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Captain Mary L. Petty, Chicago, Illinois, (Commanding), First Lieutenant Ida E. Smith, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Second Lieutenants Dorcas Taylor, Omaha, Nebraska and Estella Smith, Cincinnati, Ohio. Second row, left to right: Second Lieutenants Arlayne Hall, Los Angeles, California, Rubye Collins, Castonia, North Carolina, Dorothy Guy, Newark, New Jersey, Doretha Wadley, Cordele, Georgia, Catherine Randle, Galveston, Texas, and Lucille Scales, St. Louis, Missouri. Third row, left to right, Gussie Danials, Valdosta, Georgia, Julie James, Richmond, Virginia, Doris S. Heath, Cleburn, Texas, Gwendolyn Sykes, Goldsberg, North Carolina and Melba Franklin, Sugartown, South Carolina. Fourth row, left to right: Second Lieutenants Sarah Johnson, Greensboro, North Carolina, Elizabeth L. Williams, Memphis, Tennessee, Anna Collins, Portsmouth, Virginia, Margaret Lipscomb, Opelika, Alabama and Marion Ridgely, Washington, D.C. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Photograph by U.S. Signal Corps. Collection finding aid available. African Americans--Military service--1940-1950. Nurses--1940-1950. Women--Military service--England--1940-1950. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c19985 No known restrictions on publication.. For information see "Visual Materials from the NAACP ...,"