[Interview of Lieutenant Colonel Bernice R. Couzynse (Ret.) on her service as a U.S. Army nurse during WWII and other conflicts].

Lieutenant Colonel Bernice R. Couzynse (Ret.) talks about her long military career and serving on four continents as a United States Army nurse. Couzynse says she completed nursing school in the fall of 1942 and by March 1943 had enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps. She tells of deploying to North Afri...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors: Couzynse, Bernice R., 1919-1997 (Interviewee)
Triick, Doris J. (Doris Jean) (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Couzynse, Bernice R., > 1919-1997 > Interviews.
United States. > Army Nurse Corps > Interviews.
United States. > Army > Military life.
William Beaumont Army Medical Center (El Paso, Tex.)
Couzynse, Bernice R., > 1919-1997.
Military nursing.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army Nurse Corps.
Nurses > Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945 > Veterans > Interviews.
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Veterans > Interviews.
Women veterans > Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female.
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Participation, Female.
World War, 1939-1945 > Hospitals > Africa, North.
World War, 1939-1945 > Hospitals > Italy > Naples.
Military nursing > Italy.
World War, 1939-1945 > Medical care > Italy.
Berlin (Germany) > History > Blockade, 1948-1949.
Armed Forces > Military life.
Hospitals.
Medical care.
Military participation > Female.
Nurses.
Veterans.
Women veterans.
North Africa.
Germany > Berlin.
Italy.
Italy > Naples.
1939-1953
Oral histories.
History.
Interviews.
Personal narratives > American.
Genre:
Interviews.
Personal narratives, American.
Oral histories.
History.
Personal narratives
American.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (37 min., 4 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software

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