Capt. Jean Carr was an Air Force nurse during Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War
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Jean Carr is pictured in the 1960s in her Air Force nurse dress uniform, complete with white gloves, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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First Lt. Jean Carr was aboard this C-131 "Super Constellation" serving as a flight nurse on the Air Force transport, taking wounded soldiers home. They're flying over San Francisco Bay with the Golden Gate Bridge below.
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Carr, who now resides in Burnt Store Isles, south of Punta Gorda, holds an Air Force jacket she wore in the service. It has the shoulder patch of the Military Air Transport Command.
Jean Carr was an Air Force nurse during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
“I wanted to be a history teacher, but my parents didn’t have the money to send me to college for four years,” the 74-year-old said as she sat at the dining table in her Burnt Store Isles home, south of Punta Gorda. “They decided my twin sister, Joan, and I could both become nurses. So we went to St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Peoria, Ill., for three years and became RNs. It was the best decision they ever made.
