Ruth M. Gardiner Second Lieutenant, United States Army |
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General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, is dedicated to the memory of Second
Lieutenant Ruth M. Gardiner, the first Army nurse to be killed in a theater
of operations during World War II.
Lieutenant Gardiner, a flight nurse, died in a plane crash near Nannek, Alaska, on 25 July 1943, while on an air evacuation mission.
Posted: 27 July 2002 Updated: 5 March 2003 Updated: 20 April 2007 |
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