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Captain Ott joined the US Army Air Corps Nursing Corps in 1941 in response to World War II. After some initial posts within the US, she deployed to Karachi, India.
On January 17, 1943, Captain Ott became the first woman to earn the Air Medal when she was the sole flight nurse on the first intercontinental air evacuation. This historic flight to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC took a week from Karachi, India. Captain Ott took charge of five patients on this grueling flight and was assisted only by a medical technician.
After returning to India, she was assigned to the newly created 803rd Military Air Evacuation Squad and, aided with the detailed logs she had kept on the first historic flight, helped create the air ambulance service.
Captain Ott left the Air Force in 1946, got married, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois. She remained out of the public eye until 1965 when she appeared to christen the new C-9 "Nightingale" Air Ambulance. She later retired to California.
Captain Elsie Ott died on December 15, 2006.
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