Did Amelia Earhart work as a nurse in World War 1?

Answer 1

She served as a Nurses Aide ( a non-rated task below a Registered Nurse) in a Veteran's hospital during World War I. maybe l9l7-l9 the war was over ln late l8 but it took time for the troops ( ship transit mainly) to be demobilized, as they called it and veterans were still spilling into the VA wards. She was affiliated with Columbia Presbyterian. ( for training purposes). CP is not a Veteran's Hospital. Also, there was a disease that Amelia later got.

Answer 2

Sometime in the late twenties. It was not a long-held juvenile ambition- as when Amelia was, say, l0, airplanes did not, as we known them, exist except in very small quantities- this being l907. She may have seen balloons at Carnivals or Fairs.

Answer 3

On May 15, 1923, Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license (#6017) by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).

Answer 4

she went to California. the Columbia university. in 1917

Answer 5

Amelia worked as a nurses aide for a little over a year, then got pneumonia and had to convalesce.

Answer 6

She was 19 when she was a nurses aide.

Answer 7

1917

Answer 8

Yes