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Maggie Gee joined the Women Airforce Service PIlots (WASP) in March 1944 and was then assigned to train military pilots at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. She copiloted B-17 Flying Fortess bombers through mock dogfights to train bomber gunners and flew with pilots who needed to renew their ratings. Gee served until the WASP disbanded in December 1944. |
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Corporal Helen M. Lee, Women’s Army Corps (WAC), Buckley Field, Colorado, 1945. |
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Marietta (Chong) Eng served as an occupational therapist in the Navy Medical Services from July 1945 to July 1946. She was first stationed at the US Naval Hospital on Mare Island, California, and then at the Naval Hospital in Corona, California. Ensign Eng's duties at both hospitals included rehabilitating sailors and officers who had lost limbs during the war. |
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Rita Chow, Army Nurse Corps, 1954-1958 and Army Nurse Corps Reserve, 1958-1968. |
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Army nurse First Lieutenant Ruth Tanaka operates an iron lung, 98th General Hospital, Munich, Germany, February 1951. |
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Gail (Chin) Wong, US Public Health Service Cadet Nurse Corps, November 1945-September 1949. |
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WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) are briefed in ready room prior to a flight, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, May 1943. Front row, left to right: Group Commander |