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26 MARCH 1943 - SECOND LIEUTENANT ELSIE OTT, ARMY NURSE CORPS - #WWII
Army Nurse Corps 2LT Elsie Ott became the first woman to receive the U.S. Air Medal. Stationed in India with the U.S. Army Air Forces, she was assigned to an air evacuation unit.
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Army Nurse Corps 2LT Elsie Ott became the first woman to receive the U.S. Air Medal. Stationed in India with the U.S. Army Air Forces, she was assigned to an air evacuation unit.
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On 17 Jan 1943,Lieutenant Ott was aboard an aircraft in route from Karachi, India, to Washington, D.C., with five patients bound for Walter Reed Army Hospital. She was a member of the flight crew that made the first ever intercontinental evacuation of patient by aircraft.
Counting intermediate stops, the flight took one week, evacuation by hospital ship would have taken about three months. During the flight, LT Ott kept detailed notes that improved patient care as the Army continued to develop its innovative aeromedical evacuation procedures.
