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Written by Gardiner 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.
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Michael Robert Patterson was born in Arlington and is the son of a former officer of the US Army. So it was no wonder that sooner or later his interests drew him to American history and especially to American military history. Many of his articles can be found on renowned portals like the New York Times, Washingtonpost or Wikipedia.
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