Honour at last for 'Flying Nightingales' who treated 100,000 Second World War ... - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Oct 08
  

  Mademoiselle Satine

  The Flying Nightingales were air ambulance nurses who flew on military aircraft to evacuate horrifically wounded soldiers after the D-Day landings in Normandy.

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• 24 Oct 08
  

  Kieran Lamb

  For 64 years, their extraordinary bravery in World War Two has gone unrecognised.
  
  But now seven nurses who risked their own lives to help evacuate more than 100,000 wounded soldiers from the battlefields of Europe have finally been honoured for their courage.
  
  The women - dubbed the Flying Nightingales - were presented with lifetime achievement awards by the Duchess of Cornwall last night.

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