Cheryl Bernhardt Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Most of this collection has been digitized. Some items have not beed digitized due to copyright or other logistical issues.
What's in the full collection?: March 2012 oral history transcript and scanned photographs.
Full biography: Cheryl Bernhardt (b. 1948) was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1970 she earned her nursing degree from East Tennessee State, joined the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps, and traveled to Mississippi for specialized nurses training. Bernhardt worked at Keesler Air Force Base until 1973, when she took a job as a civilian nurse. In 1976 Bernhardt began work at the Veteran’s Administration and retired in 2007. In 1981, Bernhardt received her master’s degree in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Schools and Colleges
Branch of service: Air Force -- Air Force Nurse Corps
Conflict: Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Subject headings: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
United States. Air Force
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Air Force nurses and other Air Force personnel; Air Force Nurses and other Air Force personnel, training in Oklahoma with bivouacs, ca. 1972.

: Cheryl Ann King Bernhardt in uniform; Cheryl Ann King Bernhardt posing in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps uniform, with the National Defense Service Ribbon.

: Cheryl Ann King Bernhardt nursing uniform; Cheryl Ann King Bernhardt in her white duty nurse's uniform. Date on the side of the photo is processing date.

: Cheryl Ann King Bernhardt portrait; Cheryl Ann King Bernhardt in formal U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps uniform, with the National Defense Service Ribbon and the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps basic badge.

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