[1][5] Raney, commissioned as a second lieutenant, was first stationed at Fort Bragg, where she worked as a nursing supervisor.

[5] The next year, she was transferred to the Tuskegee Army Air Field Station Hospital.

[2] At the time, she was the only black woman to earn that rank and work for the Army Air Forces.

[1] In 1946, she was on terminal leave from Camp Beale where she worked as head nurse.

[2] The Tuskegee Airmen and the National Black Nurses Association created a scholarship named after her in 2012.