Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
Mary DeLong almost missed World War II.
A registered nurse, she was working as a dentist?s assistant in Ketchikan, Alaska, in 1944, when she decided the Army offered a better chance to work as a nurse.
So, in September of that year, she joined the Army Nurse Corps.
?President (Franklin D.) Roosevelt said that if you were a registered nurse and didn?t work a regular shift in a hospital,…