Front matter

Story by

RUBY LORRAINE RADFORD

Illustrated by

HENRY E. VALLELY

FIGHTERS for FREEDOM Series

WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY

RACINE, WISCONSIN

Copyright, 1944, by

WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY

Racine, Wisconsin

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

All names, characters, and events in this story

are entirely fictitious

To Whom It May Concern

Those men wounded beneath their battle flags

May or may not have a fighting chance.

Nurses are needed, yet recruiting lags

While every mile of ground our troops advance

Is bought with blood and even lives expended;

Though death to some has always been the price

Of victory when any right’s defended,

Nothing excuses useless sacrifice!

Whether or not the men in foreign lands

Have little nursing care to ease their pain—

Or die perhaps—the answer’s in your hands.

Life means so much to them! Can you explain

To any youth who fought, suffered, and bled,

Why you did not serve, too, beside his bed?

—Ruth Arundel Piercy, r.n.

From The American Journal of Nursing,

Vol. 44. No. 2. Feb. 1944, p. 97.

By permission of The American Journal

of Nursing.

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. Emergency 11

II. Hurdles 23

III. Suspects 35

IV. The Gas Chamber 47

V. Official Notice 57

VI. Camouflage 65

VII. Letters 79

VIII. Port of Embarkation 91

IX. Alert 101

X. Embarkation 110

XI. At Sea 119

XII. A Dream 131

XIII. Tommy’s Bombardier 145

XIV. Bruce’s Report 158

XV. Parting 168

XVI. Beach Landing 178

XVII. The Gunner’s Story 192

XVIII. A Test 205

XIX. Adrift 216

XX. The Plane 228

XXI. Rescued 238

Nancy Waved to the Middle-Aged Couple

Nancy Dale

ARMY NURSE