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Chief Nurse At TAAF Promoted To Captain
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The outstanding and meritorious work of First Lieutenant Della H. Raney, Chief Nurse at the Tuskegee Army Air Field Station Hospital was rewarded by a recent promotion to the rank of Captain. She is the only Negro Capt. in the Army Nurse Corps assigned to duty with the Army Air Forces.

Capt. Rainey, prior to her entrance into the Armed Forces, was operation supervisor at the Lincoln Hospital, Durham, N. C. She left Durham in April, 1941 to report for duty as the first Negro nurse in the World War II. She was also the first Negro to be appointed Chief Nurse and the first to be promoted to First Lieutenant.

Captain Raney, whose home is Suffolk, Va., was formerly a student at Virginia State College and received her nurse training at the Lincoln Hospital, Durham, N. C. After graduation she served successfully on the staff of the Community Hospital, Norfolk, Va. and the K. B. Reynolds Hospital, Winston-Salem, N. C. The newly promoted nurse-captain is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Raney of Pine street, Suffolk, Va. (Official U. S. Army photo by AAF Training Command)

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