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1LT Bonnie Bernholtz Oral History Part 1 - Edited
Publication date: 18 July 2024
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title:
1LT Bonnie Bernholtz Oral History Part 1 - Edited
creator:
Bernholtz, Bonnie Nadine (1923 August 21 - )
subject:
Women's Army Corps (WAC)
description:
Part 1 of 2, this is the edited audio of the interview. Bonnie Nadine Bernholtz was born on August 21, 1923 in Page, Nebraska. Her sister Velma Marie (Bernholtz) Silver was in the Coast Guard as a recruiter. Bonnie joined the Army in 1944 at the age of 21 as a dietitian in the Army Medical Corps. Her first stations were at Fort Reilly, Kansas and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. She was then sent on a train to Seattle to get on a ship headed towards Tinian, one of the islands that makes up the larger Marianas Islands. She worked on this island until World War II ended, then she was stationed in Japan. She spent a year serving in Kure, Japan at the Japanese Naval Academy. Bonnie left the Army upon her return to the United States after 2 years of service with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. She then attended Yale University, where she felt like “an old lady” at the age of 24. She then lived in Chicago before returning to Nebraska to take care of her mother. She then moved to Kearney, Nebraska where she worked in public relations for 20 years, retiring in 1988. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Rosenkotter, Judy
date:
2003-09-17
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
073.01; 2004.073
source:
VHP | CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
008344
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1944-45
rights:
Unrestricted