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1928: Airplane transports rural patients to Anchorage
The first air transport service for the sick and injured begins in Alaska. Its first flight brings patients from Bethel to Anchorage.
- Theme
- Medicine Ways
- Region
- Arctic, Subarctic
Two planes parked in a field, Fairbanks, Alaska, ca. 1929–1935. Because of the vast distances in Alaska and the lack of roads in many areas, aircraft are essential to transport the sick and injured to medical care.
Courtesy Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alaskan Airways delivery of diptheria antitoxin to Point Barrow, Alaska
Courtesy Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks