Original Title/Caption: “Nurse Frances Bullock wheels a wounded soldier back to his bed in the orthropedics [sic] ward of an Army hospital.”

Description: In this black and white photograph, a nurse pushes an injured soldier in a wheelchair down an aisle between rows of orthopedic hospital beds at an Army hospital.  This photograph was taken in May 1943 by Ann Rosener.

Source: Rosener, Ann, photographer.  “Nurse Frances Bullock wheels a wounded soldier back to his bed in the orthropedics [sic] ward of an Army hospital.”  Photograph, 1943.  From Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Call number LC-USW3- 023869-D.  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d28504 (accessed March 20, 2007).

Historical discussion: The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, or “The GI Bill of Rights,” provided veterans with educational assistance; home, farm, and business loans; unemployment allowances; and employment counseling and placement assistance (Hines 1-2).  

See Frank T. Hines, “The Human Side of Demobilization,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 238 (March 1945), 1-8.