[A nurse from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in the Second World War: the Virgínia Portocarrero archive at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz].

This study investigates the potential of the Virgínia Portocarrero archive, at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz. It was donated in life by Portocarrero, a Brazilian nurse and Second World War veteran. The documents include records from her education and training and show evidence of a determination to preserve her memories from the frontline and after the war, in a symbolic battle to record an essentially female story in a characteristically male setting.

The Brazilian Army nurses' uniforms: visual identity in World War II.

Objective: To analyze the symbolic effects of the official military uniform of the nurses from Brazilian Army in World War II.

Method: This research was developed using the historical method, with iconographic sources. The data were discussed based on the concepts of the social world theory, by Pierre Bourdieu.

[The Brazilian expeditionary force's nurses in the Italian front].

Unlabelled: This social-historical study analyzes the proximity between the nurses at the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB, in the Portuguese-language acronym) and the authorities in charge of the U.S. the Brazilian Armies in World War II.

[Brazilian Army nurses and transportation of the wounded: a challenge faced during World War II].

This historic-sociologic study aims to analyse the challenges faced by the Brazilian Expeditionary Force's Air Transportation Nurses of the Army with the Theatre of Operations on the course of World War II. The primary source was comprised of a photograph from this time period and oral testimonies of those who participated in the conflict. Ideas by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu support the discussion.

[The daily life of nurses in the Brazilian expeditionary force in the theater of operations during World War II, in Italy (1942-1945)].

This historic-sociological study aims to analyze the daily challenges faced by army nurses in the Theater of Operations during the Second World War in Italy. The primary sources of investigation consist of three photographs taken during that period as well as testimonies by nine nurses, while literature on the subject is used as a secondary source. The discussion is supported by Pierre Bourdieu's concepts.

[The visibility of the care given by a Brazilian Army nurse to a wounded soldier during World War II].

A historical-sociological study aimed at analyzing and describing the visibility of the performance of a Brazilian Army nurse engaged in the Força Expedicionária Brasileira--FEB (Brazilian Expeditionary Force) during the Second World War. Primary source: a photograph taken at the time, along with the oral testimony of nineteen agents. This mode of gathering data resulted in the creation of a new method of research, which we named Oral-Photographic Analysis.