Damaged American B-24 Liberator bomber in flight
A damaged American B-24 “Liberator” bomber of the United States Air Force (Consolidated B-24 Liberator) in flight. Source of B-24 Liberator: US Library of Congress.
Portrait of American military nurse Mary Louise Hawkins
On September 24, 1944, Lieutenant Mary Louise Hawkins evacuated twenty-four wounded U.S. Army soldiers from the Battle of Palau to Guadalcanal. The C-47 plane they flew was out of fuel.…