Comments on: Elsie S. Ott (1913-2006) https://americacomesalive.com/elsie-s-ott-1913-2006/ Quick Takes and Popular Postings about America's Past Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:34:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kate Kelly https://americacomesalive.com/elsie-s-ott-1913-2006/#comment-464437 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:34:15 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=1366#comment-464437 In reply to Chloe Ulmer.

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]]> By: IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: MARCH 26 | The Alpha-Phonics Blog https://americacomesalive.com/elsie-s-ott-1913-2006/#comment-376622 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:37:41 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=1366#comment-376622 […] 1943 Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal.  MORE […]

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]]> By: Elsie Ott – WWII Women https://americacomesalive.com/elsie-s-ott-1913-2006/#comment-343405 Mon, 30 Apr 2018 22:27:32 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=1366#comment-343405 […] https://americacomesalive.com/2011/03/06/elsie-s-ott-1913-2006/ […]

]]> By: World’s Strangest | 11 Women Warriors of World War II https://americacomesalive.com/elsie-s-ott-1913-2006/#comment-63312 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:31:00 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=1366#comment-63312 […] Lieutenant Elsie S. Ott was the first woman to receive the U.S. Air Medal. Already a trained nurse, she joined the Army Air Corps in 1941 and was sent to Karachi, India. The Army Air Corps was considering using airplanes to evacuate injured military as they delivered fresh troops. Ott was assigned to the first evacuation flight with only 24 hours notice -and she had never flown before. The plane had no medical equipment beyond first aid kit supplies, the patients had a motley variety of injuries, diseases, and mental illnesses, and there was only one army medic to help her care for the passengers. The plane left India on January 17, 1943 and made several stops, picking up more patients, on its 6-day flight to Washington, D.C. The previous route for such a mission was by ship, and took three months. Ott wrote up a report on that flight, recommending important changes for further evacuation flights. She returned to India a few months later with a new unit, the 803rd Military Air Evacuation Squad, and was promoted to captain in 1946. […]

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