Heinz Ender (left) and Clara Adams-Ender, in the U.S. Army blue service uniform, stand to the right of members of the German Army during an awards ceremony in Washington,[...]

Clara Adams-Ender shakes hands with First Lady Barbara Bush at the ceremony posthumously awarding African-American WWI soldier Freddie Stowers the Medal of Honor on 19 Se[...]

Clara Adams-Ender (second from right, in army evening dress uniform) and her husband Heinz Ender (left) pose with Colin Powell and his wife Alma at an event in New York, [...]

Clara Adams-Ender, Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, poses in the army dress blue uniform at her desk in Washington, D.C., in 1988.

Clara Adams-Ender, in white mess uniform, poses with Bishop Desmond Tutu during his visit to the U.S. in 1985.

Clara Adams-Ender, Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, poses with former chiefs and members of her current staff in Washington, D.C., in September of 1989. She wears the army [...]

Clara Adams-Ender, Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, speaks with General Max Thurman, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army and her personal mentor, at the Army Nurse Corps 89th a[...]

Clara Adams-Ender shakes hands with an unidentified man during a march to Nijmegen, Holland, in July 1980. Adams-Ender served as senior marcher for the U.S. delegation in[...]

Clara Adams-Ender shakes hands with President Bill Clinton in the White House, circa 1995.

Clara Adams-Ender shakes hands with President Ronald Reagan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where she served as vice president of nursing, in 1985. In the center of t[...]

Clara Adams-Ender poses with her brother Ray and sister Bettie at her promotion to Brigadier General in Washington, D.C., in 1987. She wears the army white mess uniform a[...]

Clara Adams-Ender receives a certificate of appreciation from U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Togo West Jr., circa 1998.

Clara Adams-Ender (center) poses with Lieutenant Rene Woo and husband Heinz Ender before a wreath-laying ceremony in Washington, D.C., in August of 1992.

Clara Adams-Ender, in civilian clothes, greets Daniel K. Inouye, a senator from Hawaii and recipient of the Medal of Honor, who was serving as guest speaker at Walter Ree[...]

Clara Adams-Ender, wearing fatigues and smoking a cigarette, stands outside the tent that served as Post Operative Ward 2 at a field hospital in South Korea in 1964.

Clara Adams-Ender (center, in blue mess uniform) stands with Acting Surgeon General James Mason (far right) and his staff in front of a large American flag at a ceremony [...]

Clara Adams-Ender, with one hand on the Bible and one hand raised, is sworn in as a general officer and Chief of the Army Nurse Corps in September 1987.

Clara Adams-Ender, in service uniform and holding gloves, poses beside a sign for the Tachikawa Air Terminal in Tokyo, Japan, in 1964. She was returning home after a tour[...]

Clara Adams-Ender (left) instructs a student in IV use during a medical-surgical nursing course at U.S. Army Medical Training Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, circa 1964.

Clara Adams-Ender (left, in evening dress uniform) poses with fellow members of DACOWITS (Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services), in Washington, [...]

Primarily documents Brig. Gen. Clara L. Adams-Ender's background; her service with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1961 to 1993; and her marriage to Heinz Ender. Adams-End[...]

Portrait of Brigadier General Clara Adams-Ender, circa 1993. She wears the army green winter uniform.

Clara Adams-Ender and Heinz Ender sit at a table at their wedding reception in Highland Park, Illinois, in July 1981.