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Title
[Plane
crash
wreckage
,
circa
1943]
Date
1943
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Army--AAF Nurse Corps
Item description
Photo
of the
wreckage
of the
plane
crash
Virginia
Russell
Reavis
was in,
circa
1943
. She
survived
and
received
a
commendation
.
Veteran's name
Reavis, Virginia Russell
Veteran's biography
Virginia
Russell
Reavis
(b
.
1920)
of
Swansboro
,
North
Carolina
, was an
air
evacuation
nurse
in the
U.S
.
Army
Air
Force
from
1942
to
1945
.
Virginia
Russell
Reavis
was
born
in
Onslow
County
,
North
Carolina
, on
October
6
,
1920
. She
graduated
from
high
school
in
Swansboro
,
North
Carolina
, then
spent
a
year
at
Louisburg
College
in
Louisburg
,
North
Carolina
. In
1939
, she
enrolled
in
nurses’
training
at
Thompson
Memorial
Hospital
in
Lumberton
,
North
Carolina
, and
graduated
three
years
later
.
In
October
1942
,
Reavis
enlisted
in the
U.S
.
Army
and was
assigned
to the
65th
General
Hospital
based
out
of
Duke
University
. The
unit
was
sent
to
Fort
Bragg
,
North
Carolina
, to
work
wards
in the
base
hospital
, but in the
summer
of
1943
Reavis
joined
an
air
evacuation
unit
. She
completed
six
months
of
training
at
Bowman
Field
,
Kentucky
, with the
810th
Medical
Air
Evacuation
Squadron
,
which
was
sent
to
England
in
December
of
1943
.
Reavis
flew
on
transatlantic
missions
until
D-Day
,
when
the
squadron
began
primarily
evacuating
patients
from
France
back
to
England
.
Later
, her
unit
was
pulled
back
to
Preswick
,
Scotland
, and
recommenced
transatlantic
runs
. In
August
1945
,
Reavis
returned
to the
United
States
and was
stationed
in
Charleston
,
South
Carolina
. She was
discharged
from the
army
shortly
afterwards
.
Reavis
continued
her
nursing
career
for
several
years
following
the
war
,
working
in
Jacksonville
,
N.C.
; as a
private
duty
nurse
in
Wilmington
,
N.C.
; and in
California
. In
1947
she
married
Clay
Reavis
, a
pilot
whom
she had
met
while
in
service
. She and her
husband
lived
in
California
where
they
raised
four
children
.
After
their
children
were
grown
,
Reavis
took
refresher
courses
in
nursing
and
used
the
education
to
work
with the
developmentally
disabled
. The
couple
later
resettled
in
North
Carolina
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0183 Virginia Russell Reavis Papers
Rights statement
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
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to
copyright
.
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holder
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for
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to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0183.6.001
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 --
http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number
900811891
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