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Virginia Russell Reavis (b. 1920) of Onslow County, North Carolina, was an air evacuation nurse in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945. Virginia Russell Reavis was born in Onslow County, North Carolina, on October 6, 1920. She graduated from high school in Swansboro, North Carolina, then spent a year at Louisburg College in Louisburg, North Carolina. In 1939, she enrolled in nurses' training at Thompson Memorial Hospital in Lumberton, North Carolina, and graduated three years later. In October 1942, Reavis enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to the 65th General Hospital based out of Duke University. The unit was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to work wards in the base hospital, but in the summer of 1943 Reavis joined an air evacuation unit. [...] Read more
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