Women Afloat. Asia-bound flight nurses-- aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport heading toward an undisclosed asiatic port, a newly trained group of Army flight nurses appear hale and happy. They are "sister of mercy" and will fly back with war casualties needing immediate attention in American hospitals. American women are in the war. To overseas duty stations, Army nurses, Red Cross workers, USO entertainers, WACs makes the long sea voyages, many of them aboard Coast Guard-manned transports. Exposed to wartime dangers of the sea, to storms, to discomforts of crowded ships, the wome
Women Afloat. Asia-bound flight nurses-- aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport heading toward an undisclosed asiatic port, a newly trained group of Army flight nurses appear hale and happy. They are "sister of mercy" and will fly back with war casualties needing immediate attention in American hospitals. American women are in the war. To overseas duty stations, Army nurses, Red Cross workers, USO entertainers, WACs makes the long sea voyages, many of them aboard Coast Guard-manned transports. Exposed to wartime dangers of the sea, to storms, to discomforts of crowded ships, the women prove "good sailors" on the these passages to Europe and the Far Pacific.
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Keywords: 17-a2-212, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
