Talk:Della H. Raney

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Della H. Raney (January 10, 1912 – October 23, 1987) was an American nurse. Raney was the first African American nurse to report for duty in World War II, and the first to be appointed chief nurse. In 1944, she became the first black nurse affiliated with the Army Air Corps promoted to captain, and was later promoted to major in 1946. Raney retired from the Army in 1978. This photograph of Raney seated behind her desk was taken in 1945; at the time, she headed the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale in California.

Photograph credit: United States Office of War Information; restored by Adam Cuerden