Lauretta Schimmoler
Lauretta Schimmoler | |
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Born | Fort Jennings, Ohio | September 17, 1900
Died | January 1981 Glendale, California |
Nationality | American |
Education | Bliss Business College |
Known for | First woman in the United States to establish an airport in the United States, first woman to command an American Legion post, founder of the Aerial Nurse Corps of America |
Aviation career | |
Flight license | September 8, 1930 |
Rank | Post commander |
Lauretta M Schimmoler (September 17, 1900
Biography
Schimmoler graduated from the Bliss Business College in Columbus, Ohio and began studies in law after working as a court stenographer. She left the study of law to become a secretary in a chicken hatchery in Bucyrus, Ohio that led her to become the owner of her own poultry business.[1]
Her life changed when she witnessed a test flight in Dayton. She began an intensive study of flight through working various jobs with the United States Air Mail,
In 1932 in recognition of her works in aviation, she was inducted into the Ninety-Nines: International Organization of Women Pilots.
After witnessing the results of a tornado in Ohio in 1930,[2] Schimmoler saw the necessity of evacuating medical patients by air and created what today is recognised as the forerunners of the flight nurse. In 1933 she formed the Emergency Flight Corps.[3] In 1936 it was reformed as the Aerial Nurse Corps of America with 78 nurses.
Initially, both the
The United States Army Air Forces changed their minds on flight nurses and on 30 November 1942 made an appeal for experienced female
In 1944 she, at last, was commissioned in the Women's Army Corps.
Schimmoler became the first post commander of the American Legion's Amelia Earhardt Post 127 of Glendale, California in 1946[6] that initially contained woman veterans.
In 1966 Schimmoler was recognised by the Surgeon General of the United States as the first flight nurse[7] and by the United States Air Force who awarded her the gold wings of a flight nurse.[8]
Legacy
In 2011 the United States
Notes
- ^ p.78 Royster. Jacqueline Jones Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803-2003 Ohio University Press, 2003
- ^ Aerial Nurses Will Study Sky Aubulance The Milwaukee Sentinel Oct 19, 1940
- ^ p. 2 Holleran, Reneé Semonin & the National Flight Nurses Association (U.S.) Flight Nursing: Principles and Practice Mosby, 1996
- ^ p.80 Tomblin, Barbara Brooks G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II University Press of Kentucky, 28/11/2003
- ^ "Brooks Field Legacy Salute - Brooks Air Force Base 1948 - 1990". www.brooks-salute.org. Archived from the original on 8 November 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ Western Aerospace, Volume 26 Western Aviation Magazine 1946
- ^ p.24 Smolenski, Mary Catherine; Smith, Donald G. Smith;. Smith Jr., Donald G & Nanney, James A Fit, Fighting Force: The Air Force Nursing Services Chronology Office of the Air Force Surgeon General, 2005
- ^ pp. 58-59 Vance, Marian Schiefer Bucyrus Arcadia Publishing, 2006
- ^ "Scott Airman awarded by Air Force Association". Archived from the original on 2011-11-24. Retrieved 2012-03-27.