Through all these years Mile Mar-ving has harried officials in an attempt to convince them of the need for flying hospitals and for aircraft of a type required for the exigencies of war. Her persistency has won the day, and she won the right to organize—"L'Aviation Sanitaire Scores of women pilots and nurses have been recruited by her, and as part of her campaign to make it an international organization she has made several visits to America to confer with Government ofücials in that country. In her own country she had the ce-operation of such authorities as the late Marshals Foch and Joffre and of more recent military leaders.
That her scheme has caught the imagination of the young women of her country is evident from the rush of recruits since the war began, and France has more than five hundred nurses with at least ten hours' flying experience, who are forming a special parachute corps. The civilian corps was formed by another French flier of fame, Maryse Hilz, who experimented with the parachutes. Dressed in full nursing uniform and carrying supplies, she made many parachute landings. These parachutes are to be used on occasions when weather or ground conditions make it impossible for the flying ambulances to land.
Third Woman Licensed Almost unknown to the present generation outside her native France, where she lives in the little town of Nancy within sight of the Maginot Line, Marie Marvingt holds the distinction of having been the third woman licensed to fly. To-day she is the sole survivor of the original group of daring, women who flew thirty years ago, when the Wrights and Curtiss joined top-flight French
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