American Legion Post 1166 Reynolds Illinois

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11/03/2025
10/29/2025

In 1944, a C-47 carrying 24 wounded soldiers crashed deep in the Pacific. On board was Army nurse Mary Louise Hawkins—injured, exhausted, but unshaken. One man was bleeding out, his throat torn open by a propeller blade. There were no doctors, no tools—only her will to save him.
Using the valve from a life preserver, Hawkins made a suction tube to keep him breathing, then spent 19 straight hours holding his head in her lap, manually giving him plasma, and tending to every man aboard. When rescue finally came, all 24 were still alive. Not one lost.
For that courage, she became the first woman of WWII to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. Yet she never called herself a hero—just a nurse doing her duty.
Her story reminds us that courage isn’t always found in combat. Sometimes, it’s found in a pair of steady hands that simply refuse to let go.
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