Nancy Naylor is quite content with her career as a stewardess and with her understanding that she and pilot Jim Taylor will eventually marry (apparently never worrying that her name will then be Nancy Naylor Taylor). But then Jim decides that, in wartime, he has a duty to serve his country; he will instruct new pilots in the Army Air Corps. Jolted into action by his decision, Nancy determines to find her own way to serve, first by getting a pilot's license and later by enlisting in the Army Nurse Corps.

Sky Service, 1939
After completing her nurse's training, young Nancy Naylor takes to the skies as a fledgling stewardess for Consolidated Air Lines.

Nancy Naylor, Air Pilot, 1941
As World War II begins, air stewardess Nancy Naylor decides to take flying lessons as a way to help in the war effort--and finds herself in the middle of military sabotage.

Using the pen name Martha Johnson, Elisabeth Lansing also wrote the Ann Bartlett series.

Nancy Naylor Flies South, 1943

Nancy Naylor, Flight Nurse, 1944
Nancy volunteers as a flight nurse and travels to North Africa, where her fiance is stationed, as the Allies prepare to invade Italy.

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Nancy Naylor, Captain of Flight Nurses, 1946
As the Allies launch the D-Day invasion, Nancy, now stationed in England, helps evacuate the wounded soldiers from the French coast, encounters French resistance fighters, and escapes through German-held territory.

Nancy Naylor, Visiting Nurse, 1947
Home from the war, Nancy moves with her family from the Midwest to rural Vermont, where she becomes a public health nurse.

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