Navy Medicine May -June 1993 Page 10 – 11 Navy Nurses Corps 85 years of service. Page 10 – L 1918. 2 Navy Nurses pose aboard USS Washington – 1922 – off duty nurses display fish catch aboard USHS Relief (in Cuban waters) Page 11 clockwise – 1944. 4 Ensigns in Pacific theater try on combat boots – 1945 Helen Zek aboard amphibious landing craft – 1968 Stephen Shride pouring medicine – 1991 – nurse making rounds during Desert Storm. Last page – Wedding aboard USHS Mercy New York 1919, picture of event. It also appeared on front page of N.Y. Times same day.