Books with title Cherry Ames, Island Nurse

In Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse, the fourth book in the Cherry Ames Nurse Stories, Cherry is whisked off to a new assignment on an island in the Pacific close to the battlefront as Acting Chief Nurse. Colonel Pillsbee thinks she is too "young and pretty" to successfully supervise sixty nurses and 200 corpsmen. Can she do it? For the first time, Cherry and the nurses of the Spencer unit have to work under fire in a makeshift tent hospital uncomfortably close to the fighting. When the casualties pour in, the nurses and doctors work night and day, constantly under danger of attack by the Japanese. When the other Lieutenant Ames, Cherry's twin brother Charlie, is unexpectedly stationed nearby, Charlie and Cherry piece together the mystery behind the silence of an injured pilot.

In Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse, Cherry is whisked off to a new assignment on an island in the Pacific close to the battlefront. As Acting Chief Nurse Colonel Pillsbee thinks she is too "young and pretty" to successfully supervise sixty nurses and 200 corpsmen. Can she do it? For the first time, Cherry and the nurses of the Spencer unit have to work under fire.

This is book #5 in the series Cherry Ames Flight Nurse. In the 1940s when this series came out all airline attendants had to be licensed nurses. If the passenger got air sick or ill during the flight the flight nurse helped them recover until they were able to get to a doctor on the ground. This book is about some of the flight stories in the early days of airline flight.