Descriptive and social study. Objectives: to describe the circumstances that had tried the mobilization and the demobilization of the first feminine grouping of nursing of the Army that acted in the Service of Health of the Force Brazilian Member of an expedition during World War II and to analyze the happened symbolic effect of the performance of this grouping. The primary sources had consisted of verbal depositions, written and/or official documents, periodicals of the time and biographies. The secondary ones had been composed of the existing bibliographical quantity on the thematic related one. The findings had been illuminated by the concepts of "habitus" and field of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, whom profits and processed symbolic losses for occasion of the mobilization and the demobilization of these volunteers for the war had evidenced. It was concluded that to stop symbolic fights, the nurses had finished suffering the consequences from the masculine domination orchestrated in the Brazil's political and social context at the time, what brought as consequence the update of its "habitus".
History of the Nursing; Military Nursing; Memory