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WWII Flight Nurses Awarded Air Medals
Flight nurses stand with their commanding generals at medal ceremony A group of five World War II flight nurses were awarded Air Medals for their 500 hours spent evacuating the sick and wounded from...
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“I Cannot Leave Them”
Wounded soldiers at Armory Square Hospital, a hospital often visited by poet Walt Whitman Walt Whitman was 43 and already a well-known poet in 1862 when word reached his family that his brother George,...
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Women of WWII: Army Nurse Corps
Two Army flight nurses discuss their patients as they wait for take-off. Manus Is., Admiralty Islands, SW Pacific. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, there were less than 1,000 women serving in...
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Escape from Albania
A group of nurses show off the shoes that they wore for hundreds of miles while trapped behind enemy lines When the group of World War II flight nurses and medics set out from Sicily to Bari, Italy,...
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