American Courage!-----The Inspiring Story of a Daring Escape from Behind Enemy Lines - American Thinker

It is dedicated to the American nurses and medics of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron (MAES), who crash-landed in German-occupied Albania on November 8, 1943.  - Janet Levy

• For two months, they fought to reach Allied lines. 

They succeeded, thanks to their perseverance and bravery, as well as the generosity of local Albanian citizens and communist partisans fighting the Germans.
My awe at discovering this fascinating aspect of World War II history led me to Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines, by Lt. Agnes Jensen Mangerich, one of the 13 nurse lieutenants on board the C-53 transport plane. 

The plane also carried 12 sergeants (all paramedics), four flying crew members, and a corporal hitching a ride...
It’s truly a remarkable story. 

The preface states that, as men and women in uniform, all the crash survivors volunteered for danger. 

Combat wasn’t expected of the nurses, but as flight nurses, they knew they could easily crash or be shot down behind enemy lines. 

• Still, they answered the call of duty and lived by Queen Esther’s words: “I go, and if I perish, I perish.”