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Title	[Elna Jones and patients, circa 1945]
Date	1945
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Elna Jones, in nursing uniform, poses with four male patients, circa 1945.
Veteran's name	Jones, Elna Violet Allran
Veteran's biography	Elna Violet Allran Jones of Hickory, North Carolina, served in the Cadet Nurse Corps and Army Nurse Corps (ANC) in the 1940s, followed by a twenty year career in nursing . Elna Violet Allran Jones of Hickory, North Carolina, graduated from high school in 1940. She attended Lenior-Rhyne College in Hickory for one year before beginning training at Charlotte Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. In 1944, Jones joined the Cadet Nurse Corps. She graduated in July 1945 and joined the Army Nurse Corps. She reported to Camp Rucker, Alabama, but World War II ended before she finished basic training . Jones had committed to a two-year term and was thus assigned briefly to Battey General Hospital in Rome, Georgia, before being transferred to Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia. She was later stationed at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, and assigned to the New York Port of Embarkation, where her duty was to ride on trains transporting wounded soldiers returning from overseas. She was discharged as a first lieutenant in July 1947." Following World War II, Jones worked as a nurse at Harborview Hospital in Seattle, Washington, before returning to North Carolina in 1955 to work at the Children's Home in Winston-Salem. Five years later, she moved to Greensboro and took a nursing position at Moses Cone Hospital. In April 1973, Jones returned to work at the Children's Home, while also volunteering at Camp Dogwood summer camp for the blind. In 1977, she went to work for the Greensboro School for the Deaf, where she remained for twenty years.
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	WV0023 Elna Allran Jones Papers
Collection summary	1999 Oral History interview; photographs; newspaper; Battey General Hospital, 1945; newspaper; The Army Needs You! 1944; newspaper; What Every Cadet Nurse Should Know, 1944; newspaper; Cadet Nurse Corps News, April 1945; Programs/Menus: Thanksgiving, 1945, Christmas, 1945, Easter, 1947, Fort Benning Theatre Guild, ca. 1944-1947. Poem newspaper; Army Nurses, non-combatant; newspaper; Miscellaneous Postcards and Souvenirs, ca. 1945-1946; Cadet Nurse Patch With Caduceus Pin, Cadet Nurse Patch, Caduceus Pin.
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	WV0023.6.007
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	900810495

[Elna Jones and patients, circa 1945]

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