Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Mercy flight; Alaska; Bristol Bay; serum; Juneau; Joseph Sheldon; typhoid fever; Bering Sea; North Pacific; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90390

"Mercy Flight" In Alaska: Plane Carries Nurses, Doctor And Serum To Bristol Bay. "MERCY FLIGHT' IN ALASKA. Plane Carries Nurses, Doctor and Serum to Bristol Bay. (By the Associated press.) Juneau, Alaska, July 24.—Another Northland "mercy flight" was Begun here today when Pilot Joseph Sheldon took off with a physician, three trained nurses and serum for the northern shores of Bristol Bay, where a serious outbreak of typhoid fever described as near epidemic proportions, was reported. The route of the seaplane was 725 miles across the bleak North Pacific and out over parts of, the Bering Sea.