Answering Alaska's Call

Milo Fritz always dreamed big, ever eager to push the boundaries of what was considered possible.

In 1940, the young Columbia- and Duke-educated eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist and his wife Betsy, an RN, leave the familiar comforts of Milo's hometown of Pelham, New York to begin a new life in Ketchikan, Alaska. There, Dr. Fritz hopes to realize his "mad dream of a Medical Air Service" to bring modern medical care to neglected bush communities where Alaska Natives are being ravaged by...