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WINGS OF MERCY FOR VICTIMS OF DISASTER 

Relief Group Plans For Post-War Aid

To furnish wings of relief for sufferers of disasters is the purpose of Relief Wings, Inc., of 342 Madison ave.

An air-borne organization of mercy, Relief Wings is planning also to help in the post-war reconstruction of the world in general, officials of the group said today.

A volunteer association now two years old, it comprises eleven sections that span 38 States, with flight surgeons, flight nurses, air-borne medical supplies, air-borne patients and information and research into the care of patients.

Working in co-operation with the Civil Air Patrol, Relief Wings (Ruth Nichols, famed woman flier, is its executive director) was formed as a peacetime society that could go with speed to scenes of floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and other disasters and take out the injured in its flying ambulances under the care of medical personnel who have been specially trained for flight treatment.

With the coming of war, the credo was slightly changed to include civilians injured by bombings.

Relief Wings is planning to work in post-war Europe and China to fly the sick and the injured from remote places to large centers, giving them expert medical care en route.

This medical care is such that patients, for instance, who have been treated with sulfanilimide, are given vital inhalations of oxygen. Persons with fractured skulls are not taken aloft, and highly emotional or excited patients are given special care.

The organization is supported entirely by contributions, and any funds may be sent to the Madison ave. address.

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In a flying ambulance of Relief Wings, Inc., at LaGuardia Field,

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Here a patient is being carried to Relief Wings' ambulance plane at the New York airport by a group of flight nurses. At the controls of the plane is Ruth Nichols. Standing beside the plane, ready to attend the patient, are Drs. E. L. Ray (left) and J. Miller. The nurses bearing the stretcher are Frances Lash, Gayle Pond, Bridget Reid and Ursula Kennedy.
N. Y. JOURNAL-AMERICAN, Sept. 18, 1942