Utilizing And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II to Examine Past, Present, and Future Military Nursing Readiness: A Thematic Analysis.

Introduction: In the last 2 decades of counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States experienced its lowest number of battlefield casualties. Although lessons learned in recent counterinsurgency operations may be relevant for large-scale combat operations (LSCO), it is prudent to revisit the lessons learned from LSCO of World War II medical personnel. This project explored the perceptions and experiences of present-day military nurses to understand readiness as it relates to future LSCO through the historical lens of military nurses' experiences serving in World War II, as told in And If I Perish: Frontline U.