Barger, Judith.

Beyond the Call of Duty : Army Flight Nursing in World War II. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (306 pages)

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. Origin of Flight Nursing -- 2. Military Air Evacuation Tries Its Wings -- 3. Flight Nurse Training -- 4. From Flight Nurse Graduation to Arrival Overseas -- 5. Flight Nursing on the European Front: North Africa, Sicily, Italy -- 6. Flight Nurses behind Enemy Lines -- 7. Flight Nursing on the European Front: United Kingdom, France, North Atlantic -- 8. Flight Nurse Prisoner of War -- 9. Flight Nursing on the Pacific Front: Pacific Islands -- 10. Flight Nursing on the Pacific Front: Alaska, China-Burma-India -- 11. Flight Nurse Image in Mind and Media -- 12. Challenges of Wartime Flight Nursing -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Unpublished Flight Nurse Interviews with the Author -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

9781612776774


Nurses -- United States -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- United States.


Electronic books.

D807.U6 -- B37 2013eb

940.5475