[Helen Weant, circa 1943]
Title |
[Helen Weant, 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 |
Helen Weant poses at the stairs to a building, circa 1943. She wears an Army Nurse Corps olive-drab off-duty dress, matching garrison cap, and handbag. |
Veteran's name |
Weant, Helen Hunter |
Veteran's biography |
Helen Hunter Weant (1920-2015) of Sloan, Iowa, served as a flight nurse in Army Air Forces during World War II .
Helen Hunter Weant of Sloan, Iowa, graduated from the Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1941 and initially joined the Red Cross. She joined the Army Nurse Corps in October 1942 and was sent to the hospital at Army Air Forces Base Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She graduated from the Army Air Forces school of air evacuation at Bowman Field, Kentucky, in July 1943 and was assigned to detached service at Dunnelon Florida. In March 1944, she departed for Guadalcanal as a member of the 801st medical evacuation squadron. She served as a flight nurse in the Pacific Theatre based in New Guinea and Leyte, Philippines, until November 1945, and was discharged in February 1946. |
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 |
WV0446 Helen Weant Papers |
Collection summary |
2009 oral history interview and digitized photographs. |
Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Additional rights information |
IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse. |
Object ID |
WV0446.6.002 |
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 |
900815294 |
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