The Brazilian Army nurses' uniforms: visual identity in World War II.
Margarida Maria Rocha BernardesAlexandre Barbosa de OliveiraSonia Helena da Costa KaminitzAntônio Marcos Tosoli GomesSérgio Correia MarquesFernando Rocha PortoPublished in: Revista brasileira de enfermagem (2019)
In the case of the nurses from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, the appropriation of uniforms promoted the visual communication representing military nurse in the context of war, at the same time it served for distinction purposes in the army, but not necessarily in the nursing field. Symbolically, they remained amongst the walls of the barracks even after the end of the war and, thus, they remained unknown and marked by the symbols of forgetfulness.