An American nurse on a flight to North Africa, 1944 (c)

Photograph by Sergeant Travis, World War Two, 10 December 1943.

Mary Smith, a United States Army nurse from South Carolina, shown taking down the particulars of the patients during a flight in a C47 Dakota transport aircraft to North Africa. The aircraft was evacuating the wounded from a Casualty Clearing Station at Forgia in Sicily, to North Africa, most likely the General Hospital in Tunis.

From a collection of 650 photographs compiled by the Commando Association.