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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nToday we get the sad news that Anna Mae Hays, the first female General of the US Army, has passed at the age of 97. She was promoted to the rank in 1970 when she became the chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after service in the Second World War, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Her service in the World War was spent treating soldiers in India. From Wiki<\/a>;<\/p>\n In May 1942 she joined the Army Nurse Corps, and was sent to India in January 1943, to the town of Ledo in Assam. The living and working conditions were somewhat primitive; the buildings were made of bamboo, and dysentery, leeches and snakes were common, particularly during monsoon seasons. Just over two years later, in April 1945, she was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant.<\/p>\n After serving two and a half years in India, Hays was on leave in the United States when the war ended<\/p><\/blockquote>\n She stayed in the Nurse Corps, stationed at Fort Dix, NJ, until the Korean War broke out and she was sent to Inchon in 1950. After the war, she was appointed to be one of President Eisenhower’s private nurses. She was also assigned as the head nurse of Walter Reed’s emergency room. Hays made several trips to the Vietnam War to help with the combat nurse program there based on her experience in the previous wars.<\/p>\n