The Flight Nurses of World War II: Angels of the Air Evacuation Service

Inside the cold fuselage of a transport plane crossing the English Channel, Army flight nurses moved among rows of wounded soldiers evacuated from the beaches of Normandy. These women formed the backbone of a revolutionary aeromedical evacuation system that transformed wartime medicine. Flying aboard aircraft like the C-47 and C-54, they cared for severely wounded men in the air, often just hours after combat. Their courage and skill helped save more than a million lives during World War II.

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