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 ...

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 ...

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 : ...

There’s an old saying that behind every great man is a great woman. The National D-Day Memorial Foundation says that was certainly the case during World War II, when Air Force flight nurses like ...

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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