Bernice B. McCormack Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an overseas duty ribbon; Army Nurse Corps brown/white striped seersucker laced cap; olive drab garrison cap, includes gold/.black piping of rank and caduceus, circa 1943; McCormack's diary, 1942-1944; military papers, including newspaper clippings, of Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1948; memoir of WWII service, 2000.
Dates
- 1942-2000
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Biographical / Historical
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 United States 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.
Extent
3.21 Linear Feet (4 folders, WVHP general artifact box 1, textile box 1)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is fair.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- Title
- Bernice B. McCormack Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 December
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository