The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy
by
Bob Welch
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Of the 350,000 American women in uniform during World War II, none instilled more hope in American GIs than Frances Slanger. In Army fatigues and helmet she splashed ashore with the first nurses to hit the Normandy beach in June 1944. Later, from a storm-whipped tent amid the thud of artillery shells,...