Navy flight nurse – Women of World War II

Navy Flight Nurse Tends to Patient Aboard Plane

U.S. Navy Lt. J.G. Helen Mak (Nurse Corps, U.S. Naval Reserve) tends to a patient aboard an air evacuation plane.

Ensign Kay Van Wagner, Nurse Corps, getting a pre-flight briefing for her upcoming medical evacuation flight to Okinawa during World

Ensign Jane Kendeigh, flight nurse serving in the Pacific from the battle front to Marianas, Hawaii and Mainland with Naval

Navy flight nurse Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Madge Overstreet of Tallahassee, Florida, sports a native straw hat acquired when she landed

The first Navy flight nurse on Iwo Jima (6 March 1945) and later Okinawa (6 April 1945), ENS Jane Kendeigh,

Her wounded cases resting comfortably, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Mae Hanson, U.S. Naval Reserve, takes a few moments aboard a Naval

Blinded by mortar fire on Okinawa, an infantryman is fed aboard a Naval Air Transport Service hospital plane evacuating wounded

U.S. Naval Reserve Navy Flight Nurse Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Hope Toons of Salt Lake City, Utah, stands beside a sign

Lt. J.G. Mae Hanson, NC, USNR, serves fruit juice to the casualties from Okinawa, while Pharmacist Mate, 2nd Class Kenneth

U.S. Navy flight nurses walk across an airfield in Guam in April 1945. A Douglas R5D Skymaster aircraft appears in the background. Photo

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