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ATTN: Wolfhound45 - Beyond the Call of Duty...
Posted on 8/25/23 at 11:38 pm
Posted on 8/25/23 at 11:38 pm
Book Board folks... and Mr. Wolfhound45. I hope that you find this Sir.
Remember when I stated that I had all the letters home of one Lt. Grace Dunnam. WWII Flight Nurse. Written to my great Aunt fyi.
Well this is my read right now. I figured before I started on all her letters I would read the book first.. So far so good.
Grace is on the Cover. She is the second from the left. She was actually the Chief nurse of her squadron and began evacuating wounded from Omaha Beach on June 11th, 1944..
The third girl from the left was killed when her c-47 crashed in bad weather.
Remember when I stated that I had all the letters home of one Lt. Grace Dunnam. WWII Flight Nurse. Written to my great Aunt fyi.
Well this is my read right now. I figured before I started on all her letters I would read the book first.. So far so good.
Grace is on the Cover. She is the second from the left. She was actually the Chief nurse of her squadron and began evacuating wounded from Omaha Beach on June 11th, 1944..
The third girl from the left was killed when her c-47 crashed in bad weather.
This post was edited on 8/25/23 at 11:49 pm
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Posted on 10/11/23 at 10:08 pm to WWII Collector
Almost done and bumping this thread and I hope that people read this because I wanted to share something from this book that I found very highly interesting.
In the last chapter or so the author is interviewing a Nurse Soloman of the 830 MAES. She was telling a story about how she was on a flight full of patients in bad weather. They were over water and past the point of no return. She had a patient that was in a full body cast. She was concerned what she would do with him if they had to ditch in the sea.
She explained: "We were taught that in case we were going down, and we knew we were going down, and if there was a patient that couldn't be moved into a raft, just to overdose him with morphine."
Wow... I never would have expected that...
In the last chapter or so the author is interviewing a Nurse Soloman of the 830 MAES. She was telling a story about how she was on a flight full of patients in bad weather. They were over water and past the point of no return. She had a patient that was in a full body cast. She was concerned what she would do with him if they had to ditch in the sea.
She explained: "We were taught that in case we were going down, and we knew we were going down, and if there was a patient that couldn't be moved into a raft, just to overdose him with morphine."
Wow... I never would have expected that...
This post was edited on 10/11/23 at 10:09 pm
Posted on 10/31/23 at 9:21 pm to WWII Collector
I’ve got a couple more on my list before I could get to it, but I might have to check this out.
During a women’s history class I took in undergrad, I had the privilege of learning about the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and helped advocate for Elizabeth Strohfus to be interred at Arlington when she passed.
During a women’s history class I took in undergrad, I had the privilege of learning about the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and helped advocate for Elizabeth Strohfus to be interred at Arlington when she passed.
Posted on 11/16/23 at 5:41 pm to WWII Collector
I’ll find this. Thanks collector, I can’t read fiction. To me it’s pointless. Just the way I’m wired.
Posted on 12/6/23 at 8:53 pm to WWII Collector
That is awesome baw. I recently cleaned out my military medicine book collection to my peers and those that I mentored over the years. I never cease to be amazed at what we accomplished in providing medical support during World War II. It is the standard and (unfortunately) we have forgotten many of these lessons.
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