Checking for Essentials

Checking for Essentials

Flight nurse checks over medical kit in World War II

Ensign Jane Kendeigh, USNR, is shown here checking over her medical supplies kit one last time en route to the battlefield at Iwo Jima on March 6, 1945. Kendeigh is on a US Navy transport plane, and was the first navy flight nurse to be on any battlefield during the war. Her medical kit was not the only one of its kind, and was a tool used by many nurses serving the United States during the war, especially flight nurses and nurses working on the front lines. Nurses carried smaller first aid and medical kits when they were out on the field helping evacuate soldiers and carrying them to hospital tents, planes, and ships, as the kit shown here is clearly bulky and would be impractical to tote around near a battlefield.

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Margie Bedell-Burke: "Navy Flight Nurse Checks Over Medical Kit," Navy Nurses, September 12, 2017, Women of World War II Website: https://www.womenofwwii.com/navy/navy-nurses/navy-flight-nurse-checks-over-medical-kit/

Naval History and Heritage Command

Accessed April 14, 2020

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Navy Flight Nurse Checks Medical Kit in World War II

Navy Flight Nurses of World War II, women of World War II, medicine in World War II

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