Title: Cherry Ames, chief nurse
First published: 1957
Description: Whisked away from Panama and reassigned to recently liberated Pacific island, Cherry Ames gets two surprises - a promotion to first lieutenant, and assignment as chief nurse to an evac hospital that will soon be built on a neighboring isle.  In addition to the heat and the constant work, sick and wounded men, and an attempt by the Japanese to retake the place, Cherry has to cope with the local officer commanding - an Old Army, by the book lieutenant colonel who disapproves of her and her nurses.
Subjects: Nurses, Juvenile fiction, Nurse administrators, Cherry Ames (Fictitious character), Fiction, United States, Military nursing, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Army Nurse Corps, Hospitals, History, Children's fiction, Nurses, fiction, Hospitals, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Islands of the pacific, fiction
Places: Islands of the Pacific, Oceania
Time periods: 20th century