U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps

Nearly 120,000 nurses honorably served in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II, yet they are the only uniformed service members from that war who have not been recognized as veterans. Authorized by Congress and signed into law in July 1943, the United States Nurse Corps was the largest federal nurse-training program to care for America's servicemen and women.

This legislation would provide honorable discharges, medal privileges and veteran burial benefits to nurses who served in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.