1944 flight nurse patch

The answer was to portray these women as both glamorous and gutsy. This was the image that helped the sick and wounded soldiers cope with their battle wounds, injuries, and illnesses and, in turn, helped the flight nurses themselves cope with the professional and personal challenges of air evacuation duty in World War II.

Robert Halbouty, Attilio D. Puppel, and Charles E. Thank you, Pat, for visiting my website. I agree with you that WW2 flight nurses were anything but a cartoon, but because the media had not learned the value of the new flight nurse program, they featured its novelty.

Later, reporters who accompanied flight nurses on air evac missions shared more accurately the important work of the flight nurses. Your email address will not be published.

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. My mother, Jewell Platt Goodwin, was a tragic figure; anything but a cartoon! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Blue Flight Nurse's Uniform. Note some jackets were closed like men's jackets as shown in the left picture. In , the blue flight nurse's uniform was replaced by the dark olive-drab ETO uniform. Various different styles of the ETO battledress jacket existed.

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