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In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight nurses whom I interviewed in 1986 for what became Beyond … Continue reading
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In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight nurses whom I interviewed in 1986 for what became Beyond … Continue reading
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight nurses whom I interviewed in 1986 for what became Beyond … Continue reading
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight nurses whom I interviewed in 1986 for what became Beyond … Continue reading
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight nurses whom I interviewed in 1986 for what became Beyond … Continue reading
From Chickens to Flying: Lauretta M. Schimmoler and the Aerial Nurse Corps of America Thanks to Robert E. Skinner’s meticulous research from the 1980s, we know much about the life of civilian pilot Lauretta M. Schimmoler, founder of the Aerial … Continue reading
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 identified by name only two of the four World War … Continue reading
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 Bowman Field, Kentucky on Christmas Day 1942 for flying duty … Continue reading
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 military support of the ANCOA. In July 1942, with approximately … Continue reading
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 registered nurse, Ruth G. Mitchell, as Chief of Staff. In … Continue reading