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Wanda Wills (1918-2013) was born in 1918 in Sparta, North Carolina, the oldest daughter of a tobacco farmer. She attended a one-room schoolhouse and then graduated from Sparta High School in 1935. She then completed the three-year nursing program at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1939. Afterwards, she remained at Sinai and briefly worked in obstetrics. In March 1940, Wanda Wills was sworn into the Army Nurse Corps (ANC). Her first assignment was at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where she worked in the psychiatric ward. She was transferred in 1943 to McKinney, Texas. There she treated soldiers returning from the South Pacific. After being accepted for field hospital duty, she was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for overseas training. There she was assigned to the 78th [...] Read more
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