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Title
[Portrait
of
Bernice
Heath
,
circa
1942]
Date
1942
Date approximate?
yes
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
Isabel
Heath
,
circa
1942
.
Veteran's name
Heath, Bernice Isabel
Veteran's biography
Bernice
Isabel
Heath
(1917-2003)
of
Portsmouth
,
Ohio
,
served
as a
nurse
in
North
Africa
,
Europe
,
Japan
as a
member
of the
Army
Nurse
Corps
from
1942
to
1946
and
1948
to
1964
.
Bernice
Isabel
Heath
was
born
on
1
December
1917
in
Richmondale
,
Ohio
, to
Herbert
H
. and
Beatrice
Armsey
Heath
, a
steel
worker
and and a
housewife
.
Heath
graduated
from
Portsmouth
High
School
in
Portsmouth
,
Ohio
, in
1935
and
worked
in a
department
store
for
two
years
. She
attended
nursing
school
at
Bethesda
Hospital
in
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
, from
1938
to
1941
, and
did
general
duty
nursing
for the
next
year
.
Heath
joined
the
Army
Nurse
Corps
in
September
1942
and was
stationed
at
Fort
Knox
,
Kentucky
, for
three
months
before
being
shipped
overseas
with the
91st
Evacuation
Hospital
. From
December
1942
to
November
1943
,
Heath
served
in
Casablanca
and
Port
Lyautey
,
Morocco
;
Mostaganem
,
Algiers
;
Bizerte
,
Tunisia
; and
Palermo
,
Sicily
. In
November
1943
,
Heath
was
transferred
to
Falfield
,
England
, in
preparation
for the
invasion
of
Normandy
, and on
10
June
1944
, her
unit
arrived
on
Utah
Beach
.
Heath
and the
91st
Evac
Hospital
then
followed
the
battlefronts
through
France
and into
Holland
for the
Battle
of the
Bulge
. They then
moved
deep
into
Germany
and were
stationed
at
Wiepke
on
VE
Day
in
May
1945
.
After
a
brief
stint
in
Stuttgart
,
Heath
returned
to the
United
States
in
November
1945
and was
discharged
from the
service
on
9
February
1946
.
Heath
worked
as a
nurse
in
Ohio
and
Arizona
for
two
years
, then
reenlisted
in the
Army
Nurse
Corps
on
22
March
1948
.
After
a
few
months
at
Percy
Jones
Army
Hospital
in
Battle
Creek
,
Michigan
, she
volunteered
for
overseas
duty
and was
assigned
to the
130th
Station
Hospital
in
Heidelberg
,
Germany
. In
1952
Heath
was
transferred
to
Camp
Atterbury
,
Indiana
, and in
1955
she was
sent
to
Fort
Riley
,
Kansas
.
Heath
then
attended
nursing
administration
school
at
Brooke
Army
Medical
Center
at
Fort
Sam
Houston
,
Texas
.
Following
that she
spent
several
years
at
Fort
Knox
and in the
early
1960s
served
at
Camp
Zama
in
Japan
.
Heath
retired
from
Fort
Knox
in
1964
after
twenty-two
years
of
service
.
After
her
retirement
,
Heath
continued
to
work
part-time
as a
pediatric
and
Emergency
room
nurse
in
Portsmouth
. In
1975
she
moved
to
Fayetteville
,
North
Carolina
,
where
she
did
volunteer
office
work
at the
local
Cancer
Society
.
Bernice
Heath
died
on
19
September
2003
.
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
WV0195 Bernice Isabel Heath Papers
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.
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Object ID
WV0195.6.001
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
900812055
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