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| | Australian War Diary, WW2, WWII, Hollandia, New Guinea, Pacific , RAAF, nurse, Nursing Service, Royal Australian Air ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Working with Australian or American crews, as circumstances demand, they fly in transports to forward strips with freight one sister and one medical orderly to each plane and fly back to mainland hospitals with our own or Allied service casualties whether from the Navy, Army, or Air Force. |
 | | On one of their first assignments, the sisters flew with 400 sick and wounded from Hollandia. |
 | | In September 1944, only a few weeks after the R.A.A.F. Air Evacuation Service had begun duty, a transport plane evacuating a load of American casualties had to make a forced landing on the sea fourteen miles off the New Guinea coast. |
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