Nurse Historian

My work as a nurse historian is an outgrowth of my assignment as a US Air Force flight nurse in the Philippines at the end of the Vietnam War. 

The 9th Aeromedical Evacuation Group to which I was assigned could trace its history back to the 801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron that served in the Pacific during World War II. I was following in the footsteps of the flight nurse pioneers who had been stationed at the same base in the previous war, and I wanted to tell their story, which appears in Beyond the Call of Duty: Army Flight Nursing in World War II. My interviews with 25 former World War II flight nurses, 3 of whom had served with the 801 MAES, bring to life this comprehensive account of the US Army Air Forces flight nurse program.