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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, March 29, 2012
Bernice with First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt at a hospital in Salisbury, England in 1942. SINCLAIR from 24
of Nursing Services for the entire Southern Com- mand Headquarters in that area. In May of 1944, she was surprised to learn of her election as the new Chief Nurse for the entire United States 3rd Army. This made her the only
woman on the entire staff of General George S. Pat- ton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army. After landing on Utah
Beach on July 11, 1944, with 58 officers, 102 nurs- es, and 1500 enlisted men, she remained with Gen- eral Patton for the next
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15 months as his forces fought their way across France, into Belgium, Lux- embourg, parts of Western Germany, Austria and even into western Czecho- slovakia. It was 281 days of incessant combat. With each advance Bernice and her “army of nurses”
Bernice Sinclair with Lt. Col. Jay Evans in Hanover, NH. in 1945.
worked feverishly not too far behind the front lines, and sometimes seemingly in the middle of it all. The Legion of Merit was
established by Congress in 1942 and is a military decoration of the Unit- ed States armed forces that is awarded for excep-
tionally meritorious con- duct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements. The decoration is issued both to United States military personnel and to military and political figures of foreign governments. The
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