In 1944, a C-47 carrying 24 wounded soldiers crashed on an island in the Pacific. Army nurse Mary Louise Hawkins was injured, exhausted but unshaken. One man was bleeding out, his throat torn open by a propeller blade. Using the valve from a life preserver, Hawkins made a suction tube to keep him breathing, gave him plasma and tended to each man. When rescue arrived, all 24 were still alive. She became the first woman during WW2 to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. - History Revealed