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World War II Flight Nurse Collected Wounded from Okinawa Beaches

Posted by admin on Sep 9, 2011

Margaret Lucille Covington was born in 1919. Her friends know her as Lou. She is a World War II veteran and will be attending the Flight of Honor to Washington, D.C., with other WWII veterans. Her close friend Myra Dean will accompany her as her guardian.

Many soldiers made it home from foreign battlefields due to flight nurses in the Navy Nurse Corps.

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