Navy Air Evacuation Nurses

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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

 

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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
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The first Navy flight nurses didn't graduate until January 1945, so Iwo Jima was their first combat deployment. A simple Google search will give you their more complete history.