Lauretta Schimmoler and Leora Stroup Pilot-In AirEvac
350 Historical Photos
- Famous pilots of the Ninety-Nines
- Air Races of the Golden Age of Flight
- Aerial Nurse Corps of America events
- Golden Age Airplanes
- The first Modern Transport Nurses
Air transportation of critically ill patients began sporadically during World War I, but they crammed the wounded behind the pilot’s area with no one to attend to them—the sick and dying patients had to fend for themselves.
Pilot Lauretta Schimmoler and nurse-pilot Leora Stroup realized this and sought to change it. National nursing organizations, the Red Cross, and the Military did not welcome the idea; they joined in, wielding their considerable power to curtail the group.
With stories and historical photographs, this book tells all: the Aerial Nurse Corps of America group, the individuals who worked tirelessly to created it, the events that ended it, and their modern legacy that endures.
In this definitive compilation Schimmoler, Stroup, and the nurses tell how it began, what they did, and their ideas about the new Flight Nurse specialty they created. With biographical stories and historical photographs this book details the history of the Aerial Nurse Corps of America, the individuals who created it, and the unfortunate events that ended it.
- Chapter 1 – Lauretta Schimmoler
- Chapter 2 – ANCOA
- Chapter 3 – The World War II Effect
- Chapter 4 – Leora Stroup
- Chapter 5 – The Companies
- Chapter 6 – Commanders, Nurse-Pilots, Flight Nurses
- Chapter 7 – Air Ambulance Histories
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Hardcover:
ISBN: 978-0-9826509-4-3
Softcover:
ISBN: 978-0-9826509-5-0
Ebook: (text only)
ISBN: 978-0-9826509-6-7
Semper Publishing, 2023
372 Pages
illuminating…Broze deftly documents the bureaucratic obstacles and provides moments of color… Kirkus Reviews
It greatly enhanced my understanding of Air Rescue and Transport in an area I was completely unfamiliar with. I found the book fascinating. I give it my highest recommendation. … Jeffrey W. Gaver, MD, FACEP, Aeromedical Physician, Ret., and author of Epilogue: Aeromedical Flight Tales.
A Masterwork. Without Broze’s years of dogged research, much of these revelations would be lost … Judy Olausen, BS, Author/Photographer of New York Times best selling book, Mother.
A fun history book for the birth of air ambulances. An easy read with many pictures that speak volumes. … Former Flight Nurse Marci Smith, RN, CCRN, CEN, ATLS, ACLS
Photographs from the Book
Aerial Nurse Corps of America members determine if this plane will comfortably admit a stretcher and a patient through the door. The decision was, “No.”
Leora Stroup in 1933 with her flight instructor and Lauretta Schimmoler in 1929, learning to fly in a Waco plane.
The Aerial Nurse Corps of America Cap Pin, Arm Patch, and the Commander’s Pocket Patch.
Dayton Aerial Nurse Corps members learn the importance of gas masks. The Aerial Nurses learned about Chemical Warfare even before WWII began.
This fur-wearing business woman never flew without her Aerial Nurse, Captain Lucille Hurst. She accompanied her 15,000 miles around North America on commercial flights as the woman conducted her business affairs.
Famous WWII pilot of the Boeing B-17 “Memphis Belle” bomber, Captain Robert Morgan, with Dayton Aerial Nurse Corps of America’s Commander, Merle McGriff McAfee, and others at Wright Field, 1939.
For more information on Lauretta Shimmoler visit the Bucyrus Historical Society website http://www.bucyrushistoricalsociety.org
Cynthia Broze 