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  • Flight Nurse's Creed

    Flight Nurse's CreedThe Flight Nurse's Creed first appeared in a speech given by Major General David Grant, the Air Surgeon of the U.S. Army Air Forces, on November 26, 1943, to the seventh graduating class.I will summon every resource to prevent the triumph of death over life.I will stand guard

  • Winged Angels: USAAF Flight Nurses

    Before World War II (WWII), the US military was not properly equipped to evacuate wounded soldiers from the front lines. The need to access the remote battlefields of WWII drove the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) to revolutionize military medical care through air evacuation. At the same time, commercial