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The flight nurses of the Pacific who saved thousands of Marines

The flight nurses of the Pacific who saved thousands of MarinesPhoto: Military Times

In 1945, a dozen U.S. Navy nurses evacuated 2,393 men from Iwo Jima on 125 flights — more than 13% of everyone evacuated from the island

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