Title	[Portrait of Bernice B. McCormack, 1945]
Date	1945-04
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Portrait of Army Nurse Bernice B. McCormack taken in April 1945.
Veteran's name	McCormack, Bernice Bauks Williams
Veteran's biography	Bernice Bauks McCormack (1914-2007) of Marlboro, Massachusetts, was stationed in Africa while serving with the Army Nurse Corps during World War II . Bernice B. McCormack of Marlboro, Massachusetts, was born on 14 March 1914. She attended nursing school at Symmes Arlington Hospital and then worked in the operating room of Marlboro Hospital. She joined the Army Nurse Corps in March 1942, and was stationed at Fort Adams and Fort Getty in Rhode Island until December 1942 when she was transferred to Charleston, SC, for overseas training. McCormack set sail later that month, with stops in Cuba, Trinidad, and Ascension Island before reaching Ghana on 12 January 1943. On March 7 when she was transferred to Dakar, Senegal, where she remained until February 1944. McCormack was transferred to Camp Huckstep outside Cairo, Egypt, following a brief stay in Casablanca, Morrocco. She returned to the U.S. via a hospital ship out of Oran, Algeria, and was assigned to troop trains transporting wounded soldiers out of New York. She was later honorably discharged at Greensboro, N.C. Bernice McCormack passed away on 24 September 2007.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0161 Bernice B. McCormack Papers
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0161.6.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900811656

[Portrait of Bernice B. McCormack, 1945]

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