Ethel R. Kovach Scott (1918?-2004)
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1963
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4941
Ethel R. Kovach Scott (1918?-2004), fourth chief nurse of the U.S. Air Force, helped write the first flight nurse manual and establish the aerospace nursing course to support of preflight and post-flight medical programs. She entered military service in 1942, helped to pioneer techniques of air evacuation of wounded solders in the South Pacific during World War II, and was appointed chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps in June 1963.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4941
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1963
Nursing
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4941]