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Flight Nurse During Training
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A female flight nurse during flight training with patients. She is leaning over the patient in a bunk bed to place a mask. The student is wearing a heavy leather jacket and pants. She is also wearing a mask over part of her face with a long tube attached to the bottom. Beside her are bunk beds with two people in sleeping bags. The person she is putting the mask on has a head wrapped in bandages. The side of the inside of the plane is in the background. The photograph was taken in flight at Alameda Navy Air Strip.
February 1945
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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