Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse (Cherry Ames Nurse Stories, Book 4)

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x4x0. Front jacket flap lists through Cruise Nurse, Vicki Barr series lists three books on rear jacket panel, Silver Wings for Vicki blurb on rear jacket flap. Very good in good jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with 1 inch chip from spine head, loss along jacket fore edge, minor loss from other corners, fore edge lightly foxed, ink name on front endpaper. 1944 Hard Cover. v, 213 pp. Dark red patterend boards. Black-and-white frontispiece. In Chief Nurse, Cherry is whisked off to a new assignment on an island in the Pacific close to the battlefront - as Acting Chief Nurse! Colonel Pillsbee thinks she is too "young and pretty" to successfully supervise sixty nurses and 200 corpsmen. Can she do it? For the first time Cherry and the nurses of the Spencer unit have to work under fire, in a makeshift tent hospital uncomfortably close to the fighting. When the casualties pour in, the nurses and doctors work night and day, constantly under danger of attack by the Japanese. When the other Lieutenant Ames, Cherry's twin brother Charlie, is unexpectedly stationed nearby, Charlie and Cherry piece together the mystery behind the silence of an injured pilot - which involves a secret enemy weapon.