The Winged Angels exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force honors WWII flight nurses who evacuated wounded soldiers from Normandy after D-Day. C-47 aircraft transported supplies to the ...

Kowalchuk, a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, made the trip over the English Channel as many as three times a day to treat the wounded. Later, she moved ashore and worked at air bases in ...

If Marion Clark Dubbs had been born a half-century later, she might have become a writer. But because she graduated from high school in 1932, she went to nursing school, one of the few fields open to ...

Prologue -- Origin of Flight Nursing -- Military Air Evacuation Tries Its Wings -- Flight Nurse Training -- From Flight Nurse Graduation to Arrival Overseas -- Flight Nursing on the European Front : ...

WWII flight nurse Mary Hawkins manually sucked the blood out of the neck of an asphyxiating Marine. (Air Force) Before the Second World War, there was little need nor interest in evacuating wounded ...

DANVILLE, Calif. — At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical supplies and ...

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In 1968, Lois Gay carried money from seven countries in small pouches with her so she had a little cash for whichever country she found herself in. Gay was a flight nurse in the U.S. Air Force and was ...