Flight nurse aids wounded on Iwo Jima battlefield on 6 March 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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548.Photograph Douglas C-54 Skymaster. 'CinCPac-POA AH-235 Released: March 6, 1945 Flight nurse aids wounded on Iwo battlefield Ensign Jane Kendiegh, USNR, of Oberlin, Ohio, the first Navy flight nurse to set foot on any battlefield, bends over a wounded Marine on the airstrip on Iwo Jima, March 6, Miss Kendiegh flew in a C-54 transport plane from a base in the Marianas to Iwo and evacuated wounded.' February 1945
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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IÅ-jima
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24.783
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141.333
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Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Medical personnel--American--Iwo Jima
Wounds & injuries--Iwo Jima