Title	[Red Cross workers in front of plane, 1945]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 American Red Cross
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Red Cross
Item description	Two Red Cross workers, possibly including Jean Holdridge Reeves, stand on a tarmac in front of plane with its cargo doors open, likely in the Philippines or New Guinea in 1945.
Veteran's name	Reeves, Jean Holdridge
Veteran's biography	Jean Holdridge Reeves (b. 1920) of Marion, Ohio, served in the Pacific as a member of the Red Cross from 1944 to 1946 . Jean H. Reeves was born in Marion, Ohio, on 27 January 1920 and moved to Bloomington, Illinois, at the age of 14. She graduated from Bloomington High School and then earned a bachelor's degree in home economics at Illinois Wesleyan University. Reeves worked as a teacher at Gads Hill Community Center in Chicago . Reeves joined the Red Cross in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1944 and reported for duty in Washington, D.C., on October 15. After several months of training, she was sent to staging in San Francisco for a month before being sent overseas in January 1945. Reeves was stationed in New Guinea, where she operated in recreation clubs at Lae and Nadzab. In summer 1945 Reeves was transferred to Clark Field in the Philippines to work in Red Cross canteens." Reeves was discharged from the Red Cross in spring 1946, and married Thomas Long Reeves, a soldier she met while in New Guinea, on 2 March 1946. The couple moved to Pittsboro, North Carolina, and raised four daughters.
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	WV0383 Jean Holdridge Reeves Papers
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0383.6.004
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	900813889

[Red Cross workers in front of plane, 1945]

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