Ambulance Airplane - Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation Original Photograph WWII

                                                                                                                       
This is a nice original photograph of the "Liberator Express" ambulance airplane. The press release from Fort Worth, Texas reads,

"FORT WORTH, Texas--Famed for its range, speed and load carrying capacity, Consolidated Vultee's Liberator Express transport assumes a new role with announcement from Convair's Forth Worth division that work has been completed on the prototype of a newly-designed ambulance airplane. Posed above, solders demonstrate how the air-ambulance will accommodate 15 wounded on demountable litters. Special installations at the site of each litter makes oxygen readily available for wounded personnel. With litters removed, canvas troupe benches provide seats for 32 persons, giving the armed services a combination ambulance-transport-cargo plane with the greatest speed, range and load carrying capacity of any plane of its type in the air today."

Mary Beard, registered nurse (RN) and director of the American Red Cross Nursing Service in 1930, stated, “No one of our nursing organizations, no leading school of nursing, nor any other professional group, has taken up this subject seriously and definitely tried to promote the organization of a group of nurses who understand conditions surrounding patients when they are traveling by air.” After a 15-year crusade, visionary Lauretta M. Schimmoler, RN, succeeded in establishing the Aerial Nurse Corps of America.

Lauretta M. Schimmoler, RN and pilot, created the Aerial Nurse Corps of America in 1936. Although the organization struggled for years and never gained official recognition by the military or the Red Cross, they proved the concept and are today recognized as the original flight nurses, the model for the USAF Flight Nurse Corps. Early in WW II, the flight nurse specialty was established and training provided by the Army Air Corps.

Despite opposition from the Army surgeon general, the designation “flight nurse” was created for specially trained members of the Army Nurse Corps assigned to the AAF Evacuation Service. In February 1943, the first class of flight nurses graduated from Bowman Field, Kentucky. The four-week course taught aeromedical physiology, aircraft-loading procedures, and survival skills. This specialized training was the beginning of trained medical personnel providing in-flight care—the catalyst for the current AE system.
V.Dutton, R.N.

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Taken on: August 7, 2010

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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S1500, f/6.4, 1/750 sec, 5.9mm, ISO 64 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm FinePix S1500
Aperture:	f/6.4
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/750)
Focal Length:	5.9mm
ISO:	64
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.6001.18000
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