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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788497103321

Autore

Barger Judith <1948->

Titolo

Beyond the call of duty [[electronic resource] ] : army flight nursing in World War II / / Judith Barger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-61277-677-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

940.5475

Soggetti

Nurses - United States - History

World War, 1939-1945 - Medical care - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- Origin of Flight Nursing -- Military Air Evacuation Tries Its Wings -- Flight Nurse Training -- From Flight Nurse Graduation to Arrival Overseas -- Flight Nursing on the European Front : North Africa, Sicily, Italy -- Flight Nurses behind Enemy Lines -- Flight Nursing on the European Front : United Kingdom, France, North Atlantic -- Flight Nurse Prisoner of War -- Flight Nursing on the Pacific Front : Pacific Islands -- Flight Nursing on the Pacific Front : Alaska, China-Burma-India -- Flight Nurse Image in Mind and Media -- Challenges of Wartime Flight Nursing -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Unpublished Flight Nurse Interviews with the Author.