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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	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	WV0446.6.021
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

[Red Cross club at Russell Island, 1944]

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