Nurse Helen Fairchild: Killed in Action?
Jan 01, 2018 | IMDB 0
12 min Watch NowDocumentary, War
Bravery, compassion and the will to save lives motivated the young Nurse Helen Fairchild to leave home in Pennsylvania and embark on a journey to Europe, where she served as a surgical nurse during World War I before dying on the front lines.
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