Were there already Navy Air Evacuation Nurses DURING the Guadalcanal campaign?
Because this is what I've found online: "The first Flight Nurse on the Island of Guadalcanal was Lt Mae E. Olson (February 18, 1943)."
Photo: Lieutenant Mae Olson (left), of the US Army Nurses Corps, takes the name of a wounded American soldier as he is placed aboard a hospital plane of a United States Army Air Force aerial evacuation unit on Guadalcanal
Because this is what I've found online: "The first Flight Nurse on the Island of Guadalcanal was Lt Mae E. Olson (February 18, 1943)."
Photo: Lieutenant Mae Olson (left), of the US Army Nurses Corps, takes the name of a wounded American soldier as he is placed aboard a hospital plane of a United States Army Air Force aerial evacuation unit on Guadalcanal