Aviatrix. She was the founder of the U.S. Army Air Corps Aerial Nurses Unit and the first woman in the United States to command a Veterans of Foreign Wars Post. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1985.
Her interest in airplanes and flight began following her graduation at Bliss College (defunct) in Columbus, Ohio. She became a licensed pilot in 1929. She was the first woman in the United States to manage and operate an airport, the Bucyrus, Ohio Municipal Airport. Working with Amelia Earhart, the two conceived the idea of moving injured soldiers via flight, however the idea was met with resistance by the U.S. Army until WWII when the military began to see the value in moving injured soldiers via air transport. Schimmoler then expanded the idea of specially training Registered Nurses to parachute into battlefield conditions and air wrecks to administer life saving aid to injured soldiers. She was commissioned in the summer of 1944 to operate the program. She served in the Army Air Corp until mustering out with an honorable discharge on September 25, 1945. For her service to her country, the Air Force presented her with the gold wings. In 1942 she co-starred in a patriotic morale film, "Parachute Nurse," made by Columbia Studios. She retired to California, dying in Glendale in 1981. On September 7, 2014, a new memorial headstone, funded by the Bucyrus Historical Society, was unveiled at her gravesite.
Her interest in airplanes and flight began following her graduation at Bliss College (defunct) in Columbus, Ohio. She became a licensed pilot in 1929. She was the first woman in the United States to manage and operate an airport, the Bucyrus, Ohio Municipal Airport. Working with Amelia Earhart, the two conceived the idea of moving injured soldiers via flight, however the idea was met with resistance by the U.S. Army until WWII when the military began to see the value in moving injured soldiers via air transport. Schimmoler then expanded the idea of specially training Registered Nurses to parachute into battlefield conditions and air wrecks to administer life saving aid to injured soldiers. She was commissioned in the summer of 1944 to operate the program. She served in the Army Air Corp until mustering out with an honorable discharge on September 25, 1945. For her service to her country, the Air Force presented her with the gold wings. In 1942 she co-starred in a patriotic morale film, "Parachute Nurse," made by Columbia Studios. She retired to California, dying in Glendale in 1981. On September 7, 2014, a new memorial headstone, funded by the Bucyrus Historical Society, was unveiled at her gravesite.
Aviatrix. She was the founder of the U.S. Army Air Corps Aerial Nurses Unit and the first woman in the United States to command a Veterans of Foreign Wars Post. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1985.
Her interest in airplanes and flight began following her graduation at Bliss College (defunct) in Columbus, Ohio. She became a licensed pilot in 1929. She was the first woman in the United States to manage and operate an airport, the Bucyrus, Ohio Municipal Airport. Working with Amelia Earhart, the two conceived the idea of moving injured soldiers via flight, however the idea was met with resistance by the U.S. Army until WWII when the military began to see the value in moving injured soldiers via air transport. Schimmoler then expanded the idea of specially training Registered Nurses to parachute into battlefield conditions and air wrecks to administer life saving aid to injured soldiers. She was commissioned in the summer of 1944 to operate the program. She served in the Army Air Corp until mustering out with an honorable discharge on September 25, 1945. For her service to her country, the Air Force presented her with the gold wings. In 1942 she co-starred in a patriotic morale film, "Parachute Nurse," made by Columbia Studios. She retired to California, dying in Glendale in 1981. On September 7, 2014, a new memorial headstone, funded by the Bucyrus Historical Society, was unveiled at her gravesite.
Her interest in airplanes and flight began following her graduation at Bliss College (defunct) in Columbus, Ohio. She became a licensed pilot in 1929. She was the first woman in the United States to manage and operate an airport, the Bucyrus, Ohio Municipal Airport. Working with Amelia Earhart, the two conceived the idea of moving injured soldiers via flight, however the idea was met with resistance by the U.S. Army until WWII when the military began to see the value in moving injured soldiers via air transport. Schimmoler then expanded the idea of specially training Registered Nurses to parachute into battlefield conditions and air wrecks to administer life saving aid to injured soldiers. She was commissioned in the summer of 1944 to operate the program. She served in the Army Air Corp until mustering out with an honorable discharge on September 25, 1945. For her service to her country, the Air Force presented her with the gold wings. In 1942 she co-starred in a patriotic morale film, "Parachute Nurse," made by Columbia Studios. She retired to California, dying in Glendale in 1981. On September 7, 2014, a new memorial headstone, funded by the Bucyrus Historical Society, was unveiled at her gravesite.
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