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"I was glad to serve. My father had served in World War I. My brother was in World War II in the Army Air Force. He said, 'If you’re going to join the service, join the Air Force.'" (Video Interview, 26:02)
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Mary L. Weiss Hester |
Mary Weiss Hester as a flight nurse, tending to a wounded patient aboard a C-47 [1953] | Korean War, 1950-1953
Air Force
801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron (MAES); 90th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing
Scott Air Force Base (AFB), Illinois; Lowry AFB, Colorado; Montgomery, Alabama; Los Angeles, California; Tokyo, Japan; Korea; Forbes AFB, Kansas
First Lieutenant
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In 1950, Mary Weiss, who had never been more than 40 miles from her Indiana home, decided to join the Air Force, then recruiting students at her nursing school. Her desire to travel was fulfilled after she signed up for flight school and became a flight nurse, logging over 760 hours between Japan and Korea during her 14 months abroad. She also met her future husband, Kenneth Hester, in flight school, and they were married in Tokyo while still in the service.
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