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Title
[Red
Cross
club
at
Russell
Island
,
1944]
Date
1944
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
Hunter
Weant
(far
left)
,
Bob
Weant
(second
from
left)
, and
two
friends
enjoy
donuts
and
coffee
at the
American
Red
Cross
hut
on
Russell
Island
,
Australia
, in
1944
.
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
.
Place
Australia
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
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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
WV0446.6.021
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
900815100
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