Terry Jacoby is likely one of the few remaining women out of 120,000 from the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps who answered the call when her country needed her most.
ELLISVILLE, Mo. — This is an unsung story about a group of World War II nurses.
Terry Jacoby, a 100-year-old retired nurse, now lives in Ellisville.
She is likely one of the few remaining women part of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps who answered the call when her country needed her most.
Terry was 19 years old when she joined the cadet nurses.
One of her sons, Paul Jacoby, said that by 1945, 85% of the nurses in the U.S. hospitals came from this program.
Paul credited them with preventing the collapse of care when hundreds of thousands of injured service men and women returned home.
From 1943-1945, Terry trained with the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, which was a war-time …