Author: Margie Bedell-Burke

Navy Nurses 

Ensign Jane Kendeigh, Navy Flight Nurse

January 14, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments air evacuation, flight nurse, hawaii, Iwo Jima, Jane Kendeigh, Navy flight nurse, Okinawa, pacific, squadron

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

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Flight Nurse Waves Straw Hat in Okinawa

January 4, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments airstrip, flight nurse, Navy flight nurse, Okinawa, straw hat, transport plane

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

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Firsts Navy Nurses 

First Navy Flight Nurse on Iwo Jima

January 4, 2018February 27, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments air evacuation, flight nurse, Iwo Jima, Jane Kendeigh, Navy flight nurse, Okinawa

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

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Flight Nurse Catches a Few Winks

January 4, 2018January 4, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments air evacuation flight, airplane, casualties, hospital, Marianas, NATS, Navy flight nurse, Okinawa, patients, sleeping, wounded

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

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Flight Nurse Feeds Wounded Evacuee

January 4, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments air evacuation flight, aviator, flight nurse, hospital plane, infantryman, NATS, naval reserve, Navy flight nurse, Okinawa

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

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Flight Nurse with Air Terminal Okinawa Sign

January 4, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments air evacuation, air terminal, airfield, flight nurse, Marianas, NATS, Navy flight nurse, Okinawa, sign

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

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Navy Nurses 

Flight Nurse Serves Fruit Juice to Air Evac Patients

January 3, 2018January 15, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments air evacuation flight, casualties, Navy flight nurse, Okinawa, patients, Pharmacist Mate

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

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Flight Nurses on Guam Airfield

January 3, 2018January 3, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft, airfield, Douglas Skymaster, flight nurses, Guam, Navy flight nurse, R5D

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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Army Nurses 

Army Nurses of 32nd General Hospital Unit in Indiana

December 22, 2017January 2, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments army nurses, Camp Atterbury, Fletcher General Hospital, group photo, Indiana, overseas duty, training, WWII nurses

The 37 nurses of the 32nd General Hospital unit, known as “Indiana’s Own” since World War I. This photograph was

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Army WACs 

WACs Relaxing After a Day’s Work at Camp Atterbury

December 22, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, Army WACs, Camp Atterbury, dog, dog mascot, Indiana, relaxing

Eight servicewomen of the Medical Section, 3561st Service Unit, Women’s Army Corps (formerly Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) playing outside with

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