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Exhibits: Nurse Veterans
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Lieutenant Liz Baehr:

A nurse during WWII, she was only ten miles behind the front lines and then served in a concentration camp, taking care of the sick and starving, after V-E Day.

 

Lieutenant Colonel James Steffens:

Was the last USAF Flight Nurse assigned to Khe Sanh AB during the Battle for Khe Sanh.

 

Staff Sargent Brenda Coupar:

Served 14 months for Operation Iraqi Freedom and now serves other veterans at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital.

 

 

 

Colonel Ginny Stubblefield:

Served with the USAF form 1967 to 1996.  She completed Flight Nurse School, Hyperbaric School, Air Command & Staff College, and Air War College.

 

 

 

Captain Patricia Zuffa-Murry:

Served from 1957 – 1977.  She is currently the 3rd Vice President of the Hanson American Legion Post 171.

 

 

 

Ken Bopp:

Served in Vietnam form May 1966 to February 1968 with the 3rd Surgical Hospital at both Bien Hoa and Dong Tam and with the 24th Evac Hospital at Long Binn.

 

 

2nd Lieutenant Frances Kokaly:

During WWII she was stationed on a small island in the Marianna’s called Tinian.  She was there when the planes took off to bomb Japan.  From 1969 to 1985 she worked in the Neonatal Unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, WI.

 

 

 

 

Commander David Emerson:

Joined the Navy in 1967 and was a Navy Nurse Advisor to Vietnamese in Saigon, Vietnam.  He retired in 1989.

 

 

 

 

Lieutenant Colonel Dorothy Bollant: 

Served in the USAF from September 1962 to September 1982.  She was an Airevac Nurse during the Vietnam War from 1968-1970.

 

 

 

 

 

Sherry Hillesheim:

Served with the USAF from 1976-1996.  She is now involved in Wellness Coaching/Consulting and is the proud mother of three sons.

 

 

 

 

 

Major Cheryl Gambal:

Served with the USAF form September 1970 to October 1990.  She became an OB/GYN Nurse Practioner in 1976 and continued in this field until 2010.

 

 

 

Colonel Nancy Caldwell:

Served with the USAF form November 1963 to October 1993.  She was a member of the Medical Support Team for the Apollo 15 moon shot.  Nance received an award for aeromedical evacuation of a premature infant from a remote Greenland village. She served during the Vietnam era and played a significant role in many aspects of Operation Desert Storm.