[Mil.com] Second Lt. Willie Evelyn Webster served as an Army nurse during World War II, and she's turning 100 years old on Dec. 14. Let's all send her a birthday card in honor of her service and for reaching birthday triple digits!Webster graduated from Celina High School in Texas and then from St. Paul Hospital's nurses training course in Dallas. She received her Army commission in January 1944.
Evelyn deployed to Europe and served with the 168th General Hospital, which was actually a tent hospital set up in an open field in rural France. In the field hospital, she administered penicillin and sulfa drugs. Nurses changed dressings on wounds and gave the injured hot packs and alcohol rubs while working closely with the ward surgeon.
"There's nothing we could do for our wounded men that would be too much," she said in an interview with her hometown paper during the war. "They come in from forward area hospitals, many with deep wounds, amputations, bad burns -- but they never whimper or complain."