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Unsung hero, flight nurse Evelyn Wisner helped save hundreds during World War II
Leah Garrett’s new book says Wisner was one of 24 Navy flight nurses chosen from 200 applicants and later helped evacuate 2,393 wounded men.
- Author Leah Garrett's new book, 'The Flight Nurses' War,' chronicles Evelyn Wisner, one of 12 Navy nurses hand-picked to evacuate wounded Marines from Iwo Jima during World War II.
- Wisner and her fellow flight nurses were 'crucial to saving the lives of those wounded heroes,' Garrett wrote, evacuating 2,393 men on 125 planes—more than 13% of all those evacuated from Iwo Jima.
- Operating within a full-scale naval barrage, nurses endured the 'pounding of nearby guns and mortars' while stabilizing patients aboard B-29 Liberators, facing severe turbulence during flights back to Guam.
- Although Wisner remained silent about her combat experiences for decades, she began speaking publicly in 1995 because she wanted children, 'especially young girls,' to know women performed important roles during the war.
- Garrett spent three years researching Wisner, who died in 2018 at 98 years old, to produce the volume preserving these ordinary women's extraordinary legacy.
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