World War II Army Flight Nurses – 6 Apr 2019
World War II Flight Nurses Identified Flight Nurses Anna Ranahan, Grace Dunnam, Dolly Vinsant, and Jean Tierney of the 806 Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, circa 1943 Until recently I had…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 16 Mar 2019
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 8 Flight nursing in the United States Army Air Forces had become a reality when the 802nd Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron left…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 10 Feb 2019
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 7 Undeterred by the American Nurses Association (ANA) rejection of the Aerial Nurse Corps of America (ANCOA), Schimmoler again set her sights on…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 12 Jan 2019
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 6 To avoid possible misunderstandings of Aerial Nurse Corps of America (ANCOA) activities, by 1939 its founder, pilot Loretta Schimmoler, had appointed a…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 24 Dec 2018
The Aerial Nurse Corps of AmericaPart 5 Leaders of the American Red Cross (ARC) had been following the activities of pilot Lauretta Schimmoler and the Aerial Nurse Corps of America…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 1 Dec 2018
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 4 Detroit Company A of the Third Wing, Fifth Division was one of the more active Aerial Nurse Corps of America (ANCOA) units.…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 10 Nov 2018
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 3 Lauretta Schimmoler, a pilot who in the 1930s founded the flight nurse organization Aerial Nurse Corps of America (ANCOA) independent of the…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 20 Oct 2018
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 2 By the 1930s, the use of stewardesses on airlines, an idea launched by Boeing Air Transport, had caught on not only with…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 1 Oct 2018
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Part 1 As early as 1930, before flight nursing in the United States military was a reality, Lauretta M. Schimmoler, a pilot, had foreseen…
Music in The Girl’s Own Paper – 2 Sep 2018
Nursing and Music in The Girl’s Own Paper Part 2 Asylum Nursing The Girl’s Own Paper (TGOP), a popular weekly magazine published in London by the Religious Tract Society beginning…