WW2 Fallen - Army nurse Helen Corra, 48th Field Hospital

Second Lieutenant Helen Corra became a nurse in the 48th Field Hospital in France and Belgium
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76066214/helen-edith-corra
https://www.med-dept.com/unit-histories/48th-field-hospital/ 

Helen Edith Corra never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, she sacrificed her life for our freedom.

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Helen was born on May 7, 1920 in Pennsboro, West Virginia. Her parents Abraham and Fahada were both born in Assyria. Her father worked as a fruit store merchant. He died in 1933. Helen had an older brother and sister and a younger brother and sister. By 1940 Helen had completed four years of college and was a nursing student at St. Joseph's Hospital.

She enlisted in the US Army after completing further nurse training at Woman's Hospital in Baltimore. She was sent to England in the spring of 1944. She became a second lieutenant in the 48th General Field Hospital. The hospital had around 20 officers, 18 nurses, and 190 enlisted men. It was a front line unit that would be the first hospital to take men in need of operations. The 48th arrived in France on July 15, 1944. Unfortunately, it remained inactive for a month waiting for its equipment to arrive. The hospital moved forward as the Allies advanced. By late October it was operating out of Belgium.

The circumstances of Lt Corra's death are unclear. My best guess is she drowned in a swimming accident in Paris on December 4, 1944.

Her grave is at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Pennsboro, West Virginia.

Thank you Lt. Corra for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for Helen.

Last year on this date I profiled POWs Ernest Walsh and his brother Stanley. You can read about the Walsh brothers here.

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