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More WACS Complete Hospital Technicians' Training

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Members of the sixth graduating class of WACs to complete the hospital technicians' training course at the Fort Huachuca Regional Hospital are shown above. The faculty was made up of the following personnel of the Regional Hospital Section No. 1: Col. M. O. Bousfield, commanding officer; Lt. Col. DeHaven Hinkson, executive officer; Lt. Col. Roscoe C. Giles, surgical; Lt. Col. Harold Thatcher, medical; Maj. William E. Allen, X-ray and Capt. Julian Blache, laboratory. Lt. Col. Edward B. Stackpole had charge of dental technicians' training. Pictured above, seated left to right are: Pvt. Ann Highsaw, Louisville, Ky., stationed at Camp Gruber, Okla; Pvt. Mary E. Bethel, Philadelphia, Pa. stationed at Camp Breckenridge, Ky.; Lt. Irma J. Cayton, commanding officer of the WAC Section, SCU 1932; Capt. Della H. Raney, principal nurse, Regional hospital; Col. Midian O. Bousfield. Lt. Col. DeHaven Hinkson, Pfc. Alice Charles, Pittsburgh, Pa., For Sheridan, Ill.; and Pvt. Geraldine Lunday, Omaha, Nebr., Camp Claiborne, La. Standing left to irght [[right]], are: Pvt. Margaret Stevens, Dallas, Texas, Fort Knox, Ky.; Pfc. Dixie Bacy, Forth Worth, Texas, Forth Knox, Ky., Pfc. Thelma Giddings, Galveston, Texas, Fort Sheridan, Ill.; Pvt. Florence E. Woodard, Washington, D. C., Camp Gruber, Okla.; Pfc. Bertha M. Hayes, Jacksonville, Fla., Fort Bragg, N. C.; Pfc. Dorothy M. Hobson, East Orange, N. J., Forth Knox, Ky.; Pfc. Frances Sherman, Albany, N. Y., Camp Atterbury, Ind.; Pvt. Adeline T. Daniels, Yonkers, N.Y., Forth Bragg, N. C.; and Pvt. Flora Graham, Philadelphia, Pa., Camp Breckenridge, Ky.
-U. S. Signal Corps Photo.

Aug 11, 1944

New Center to Train Negro Army Nurses
Washington, July 15.—(AP)—The first basic training center for Army Negro nurses has been established at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, the War Department said today. 

A medical training center for Negro Wacs also has been established at Huachuca. The course will lead to commissions.

Medical facilities at the fort have been designated as a regional station[[?]] hospital under command of Col. Median O. Bousfield, of Chicago.

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