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US Flight Nurse Ensign, Jane Kendeigh, is shown in this photo tending to a wounded marine, William J. Wycoff. She is holding his hand tightly and seems to be speaking to him in earnest. William's head is heavily bandaged, making his face completely…

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…