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Winter 1968-1969 issue of The Pacemaker, a quarterly newsletter published by Mary Hospital of Evergreen Park, Illinois. Back cover story features hospital alumna Mary Cannon.

Pages 3 and 4 from the September 1958 issue of the Great Lakes Naval Hospital's monthly publication, the Caduceus. Primarily documents new assignments, awards, and training completion for hospital and navy medical staff. Featured articles include "Lt. Cannon, Former Army Nurse, Proud Possessor of Bronze Star", "Hospital Corps School Activities", "$32 Million V.A. Hosp. Under Construction", and "43 Drs. Report For Indoctrination."

May Cannon poses in the snow in front of a mountain while stationed in Korea in 1952.

A student nurse, possible Mary Cannon, holds a baby ca. 19XX.

A group of Navy Nurse Corps members surround Captain Bulschefski at a party in Bethesda, Maryland, in June of 1967. The nurses hold up the contents of a box marked "Care package" and addressed to the nurse corps officers at Danang, Vietnam, in care of Commander Mary Cannon.

Mary Cannon sits on the ground wearing an Army Nurse Corps battledress uniform, somewhere in Korea in 1952.

Captain H. P. Mahin (center) and two other men in uniform help a nurse plant a tree at Naval Air Station Da Nang in Vietnam in 1967. A Vietnamese man in traditional dress looks on. A note on the back of the photo reads "A Tree - good luck to 18!"

Mary Cannon is pictured splicing film while at the job she took to help pay her tuition at Indiana University in 1956.

Class photo of new Navy Nurse Corps initiates at the U.S. Naval Hospital in St. Albans, New York, taken 7 January 1958. Mary Cannon is third from the left.

Photograph of the operating room at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) in Korea, 1952.

Army nurses Lt. Col. Kay Phillips (left) and Mary Cannon (right) slice a cake which reads "Kay and Mary, Thunderbirds Delight." Also present is a man in uniform and three patients from the ward in which the two worked in 1953 in Korea.

The staff of the Naval Support Activity (NSA) Station Hospital in Da Nang, Vietnam, pose for a group photo outside the facility in 1967.

Hand-tinted portrait of Mary Cannon in her Army Nurse Corps uniform and garrison cap with captain's bars, ca. 1953.

Group photo of the U.S. Naval School Instructors, taken at class graduation on 21 April 1961 at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois. The lone female in the portrait is Mary Cannon.

Two nurses, including Mary Cannon (right), join three servicemen at a celebration of the Navy Nurse Corps' 60th anniversary while stationed in Da Nang, Vietnam, in June 1968.

Mary F. Cannon, in Navy Nurse Corps dress uniform, speaks with Major General Micheal P. Ryan of the U.S. Marine Corps at an event in 1973.

Nurse Mary Cannon speaks with Capt. H.P. Mahin of the U.S. Navy Medical Corps at his desk in Da Nang, Vietnam, on 25 March 1968.