Army Flight Nurse. A graduate of the first organized course for flight nurses of the 349th Air Evacuation Group, Bowman Field, Kentucky, Lieutenant Gardiner served in the Alaskan Theater of Operations with Flight A of the 805th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron. She was the first Army nurse to be killed in a theater of operations during World War II when an aircraft on which she was a passenger crashed in July 1943, near Naknek, Alaska, while on an air evacuation mission. Gardiner General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, was so named in her honor.
Army Flight Nurse. A graduate of the first organized course for flight nurses of the 349th Air Evacuation Group, Bowman Field, Kentucky, Lieutenant Gardiner served in the Alaskan Theater of Operations with Flight A of the 805th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron. She was the first Army nurse to be killed in a theater of operations during World War II when an aircraft on which she was a passenger crashed in July 1943, near Naknek, Alaska, while on an air evacuation mission. Gardiner General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, was so named in her honor.
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805 AAF MED SQ
WORLD WAR II
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