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This image shows a group of smiling navy nurses standing on the deck of the USS Relief in 1941, a navy hospital ship in World War II. It is clear that these women are wearing life jackets and other protective gear necessary when risking death by…

American nurses had to be ready to treat wounded soldiers in any conditions, including the cramped, constantly moving, dangerous location of an evacuating aircraft. Just as Lt. Katye Swope is doing in the photo taken in July of 1943, other flight…