June Wandrey

Birthplace: Wautoma, Wisconsin

Branch of Service: WAC

Unit: Nurse Corps

Theater of Operation: European

Enlisted / Commissioned: May 5, 1942

Discharged: Oct 10, 1946

Highest Rank: First Lt.

Military Honors: Eight battle stars

Honored By: The Eisenhower Foundation

June Wandrey Mann (1920-2005) was a First Lieutenant in the US Army Nurse Corps during WW II. She was the author of “Bedpan Commando” an account of her military service in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany.

She was awarded eight battle stars. “An eighteen year old boy is carried into the shock ward and he looks up at me trustingly asking, ‘How am I doing, nurse?’ I just kiss his forehead and say, ‘You are doing just fine soldier.’ He smiles sweetly and says, ‘I was just checking.’ Then he dies. We all cry in private, But not in front of the boys. Never in front of the boys.” -June Wandrey

Courtesy of American Military History