File:Julia Anna Muraresku Navy Nurse Corps 1942.jpg

English: Lieutenant Commander Julia Anna Muraresku (Bricker), naval pioneer, joined the United States Navy Nurse Corps shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although she, along with her fellow nurses serving before and during the first months of World War II, were allowed to wear the uniform shoulder boards identical to those for officer ranks, the Navy did not formally recognize nurses as commissioned officers until 3 July 1942, when an Act of Congress finally granted nurses the permanent relative rank of commissioned officers. This photograph was likely taken while Ensign Muraresku was stationed in Philadelphia, PA ca. 1942. She later served in Idaho, California, Guam M.I., and New York before being honorably discharged due to marriage; nurses were required to be unmarried. Image from the LCDR Julia Anna Muraresku (Bricker) Collection, USN Nurse Corps (1941-46).