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An excited, eighteen-year-old Cherry Ames enters the training program at Spencer Hospital that will lead her to a nursing career in just three years.

Home from the Pacific, Cherry Ames finds that a desperate need exists for flight nurses in the European war theatre. Characteristically, Cherry immediately volunteers for air duty, undergoes the six weeks of intensive training at Randolph Field, learns how to care for the wounded who are transported by air, and proudly receives her wings and her orders for overseas duty.