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PREPARING FOR FRONT LINE DUTY
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In Russia the mortality rate, due to lack of medical treatment at the front lines, has been cut in half compared to last world war rate due to activity of nurses who fly to scenes of battle to aid wounded men. Here staff army nurses of Tuskegee Army Flying school learn proper way to enter and leave plane. They may be assigned to duty on front line with our boys. Seated in plane is First Lieut. Della N. Rainey, chief nurse. Standing 2nd Lieuts. Abbie Edith Voorhies, Ruth Speight and Mencie Trotter. Nurses wear parachutes like flyers and must learn to adjust and use same.

Dec 1943 JOURNAL AND GUIDE
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"YEP, THAT'S WHAT HE SAID!" - It's a long way to "Tipperary" - but "Rochester" is always eager to play his part in bolstering morale among patients of the station hospital at the Tuskegee Army Air Field. Reading from left to right, are: 1st. Lt. Della H. Rainey, of Suffolk Va., chief nurse; "Rochester," Lt. Col. Richard C. Cumming, post surgeon, and Leon Rene, composer of Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by AAF Training Command)