About the Book: Flight Nurses War
The Pacific Theatre was the setting for some of World War IIs bloodiest
battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in Europe was
winding down, fierce Japanese resistance and mounting casualties slowed the US
advance toward Japan. The terrible death toll of doctors, medics and corpsmen
forced the United States Navy to deploy combat nurses to contested airfields,
where they triaged desperately wounded men and evacuated them to safety.
In The Flight Nurses War, award-winning historian Leah Garrett traces the lives
of eight nurses from their small-town origins to the devastation of