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This Month in AFMS History: First Space Medicine Symposium

The rocket-powered Bell X-1 experimental aircraft. Pilots who flew the X-1 experienced weightlessness for a few seconds when they completed a climb. (NASA photo)

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Operation Torch

U.S. Army Air Forces P-40F Warhawk fighter aircraft prepare to launch from the deck of the USS Chernago off Morocco in support of Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, on Nov. 8, 1942. Flight surgeon Lt. Samuel T. Moore treated Soldiers throughout the North Africa campaign, and kept a diary of his experiences. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy)

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C-130 mainstay of medevac

A hospital bus backs up to a C-130 Hercules aircraft to transport victims of the Pines Hotel fire to the regional medical center, Clark Air Base, Philippines, Oct. 23, 1984. (Courtesy photo)

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C-130 mainstay of medevac

Red Cross equipment, supplies and transportable hospitals are stockpiled into C-130 Hercules aircraft at Kitzingen Air Base, Germany, September 1970. The aircraft were flying to Jordan as part of Operation Fig Hill, providing disaster relief and medical support during civil strife. C-130 aircraft have always been able to navigate austere and, at times, hostile airfields to meet a wide variety of aeromedical evacuation missions. (Courtesy photo)

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Hurricane Mitch

U.S. Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Cody Henderson, a pediatrician assigned to a 24th Medical Group Medical Readiness Training Exercise Team, examines a boy in a temporary field hospital in the Honduran village of Campo II, November 1998. U.S. joint-service medical teams drove into the Honduran countryside daily to treat people effected by Hurricane Mitch. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jeremy Ausburn)

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Kirtland Super Clinic

Pictured from left: Albuquerque Mayor Kenneth Schultz; Andrew Montano, recently retired director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Albuquerque Medical Center; Lt. Gen. Monte B. Miller, Air Force Surgeon General; Col. Warner J. W. Fan, Kirtland hospital commander; Brig. Gen. Frederick W. Plugge III, Military Airlift Command command surgeon, and U. S. Reps. Bill Richardson and Steve Schiff, cut the ribbon at a joint Air Force and VA “super clinic” at Kirtland Air Force Base, Sept. 8, 1989. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julie Zuffelato)

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Air Force dentists responded to 1981 explosion at Ramstein Air Base

Blown out windows, damaged cars and the torn up entrance to the U.S. Air Force Europe headquarters, as well as damaged cars, the result of a bombing at Ramstein Air Base by the Red Army terrorist group, August 31, 1981. Air Force dentists treated 15 people wounded in the attack. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Air Force dentists responded to 1981 explosion at Ramstein Air Base

The explosion site in the parking lot of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe headquarters building at Ramstein Air Base where, on August 31, 1981, the Red Army terrorist group detonated two care bombs. Air Force dentists treated 15 people wounded in the attack. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Air Force dentists responded to 1981 explosion at Ramstein Air Base

Emergency personnel respond to a terrorist bombing at US Air Force Europe headquarters on Ramstein Air Base, August 31, 1981. Air Force dental personnel from the base dental clinic located across the street from the bombing site treated the 15 people wounded in the attack. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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“School of Air Evacuation” celebrates 75th anniversary

A model of a Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” hangs above the atrium in USAFSAM. The “Jenny” -- deemed as the first air ambulance -- was developed at the end of World War I when the U.S. Army recognized the need to air transport wounded soldiers. The “Jenny” was dedicated as part of the School of Air Evacuation’s 75th anniversary celebration. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rick Eldridge)

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This Month in AFMS History: The air transportable “Flying Lung"

Airman 3rd Class Warren Beatty in a “flying lung” aboard a 374th Troop Carrier Wing C-54 Skymaster, cared for by 1st Lt. Shirley C. Warren, a flight nurse, and Staff Sgt. Lawrence Kiger, a medical technician, en route from Korea to Japan, July 23, 1953. Beatty, stricken with a lung ailment while stationed at Inchon Harbor, Korea, was the first iron lung patient to receive an airlift from the Korean theater. (Photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)

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This Month in AFMS History: The air transportable “Flying Lung"

The “flying lung” designed at the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine in 1952. A flight nurse adjusts and prepares to disconnect the battery used during transport from the hospital to the aircraft, January 29, 1953. Once aboard, the pressure pump plugged directly into the plane’s electrical system to power the flying lung during flight. (Photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)

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First attached Army Air Forces unit hospital established 75 years ago

U.S. Army Air Forces nurses make their way down the ramp of their Landing Craft Infantry amphibious assault ship on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria, Italy in 1943. The 34th Station Hospital on the island became the first Army Air Forces hospital truly attached to an Army Air Forces unit. (National Archives)

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First attached Army Air Forces unit hospital established 75 years ago

Billowing smoke covers bomb-blasted Mediterranean island of Pantelleria, Italy, where the Allies dropped 6,202 tons of bombs for more than a month in 1943. (National Archives)

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100th anniversary of first flight surgeon school

Aero Medical Laboratory, Medical Research Laboratory, Hazelhurst Field, N.Y (Courtesy photo)

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First Chief of the Nurse Corps

General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, congratulates chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps, Lt. Col. Verena Zeller (center), and chief of the Air Force Women’s Medical Specialists, Lt. Col. Miriam Perry (right), upon their promotion. (Courtesy photo)

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First Chief of the Nurse Corps

Capt. Verena Zeller, first chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps. Zeller assumed her chief duties in 1949 while still a captain, and achieved the rank of colonel in just two years. (Courtesy photo)

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ANZAC Day: A time for honoring partnerships

Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) Day is a time to honor members and reflect on the long-lasting partnership between ANZAC and the Air Force Medical Service, which reaches back to the Korean war when ANZAC and AFMS members worked together as allies. Pictured above, Australian flight nurse Nathalie Oldham, on temporary duty with the U.S. Air Force Medical Service, checks on her American patients before departing Korea for American hospitals in Japan. Oldham, with the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service, served with the AFMS for several months during the summer of 1952. During that time she observed many differences between the services, such as, unlike American flight nurses, the Australians did not receive flight pay and were not allowed to eat in the officer's mess. Oldham was also impressed with the Americans' larger medical aircraft and abundance of supplies. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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The evolution of aeromedical evacuation capabilities help deployed medicine take flight

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael Bellack, an aeromedical evacuation technician with the 514th Aeromedical Evacuation (AE) Squadron, puts on his mission oriented protective posture gear during a joint training mission on a C-17 Globemaster III. As AE capabilities continue to evolve, teams continue to train to maintain their skills and be prepared for more challenging patient evacuations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)

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75th Anniversary of the First Body Armor Suits Delivered to Eighth Air Force

B-17 Flying Fortress radio operator Sgt. James Bothwell, smiles as he displays the back of the flak jacket that saved his life over Germany. He sustained only minor injuries. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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