Caption: "Pvt. Vincent E. Palumbo surrenders his camera to take an official photo of the nurses from the Base Hospital at Camp Lee, Petersburg, VA. The photo captures the historic moment when these nurses became the first women to be made US citizens since the law was passed. They took their oath at the naturalization bureau at Camp Lee."

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