Part of the Extraordinary VoicesTM series
Meet Elsie Ott
Courage | Ingenuity | Legacy
She was the first American nurse ever ordered to evacuate critically wounded soldiers by air—alone, unprepared, and on a plane when she had never flown until that day. With only a notebook and sheer determination, Second Lieutenant Elsie Ott transformed one desperate mission into the birth of modern aeromedical evacuation.
⏱ 50–55 min
Historically rich, intimate, quietly heroic