An edited version of the memoir written by one of the unit’s enlisted men (and unofficial historian)… Read More Africa to Italy with the 32nd Station Hospital (Willard O. Havemeier’s Website)
The story behind a 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion officer mentioned in many letters written by a 32nd Station Hospital nurse during 1943… Read More 1st Lieutenant John S. Jarvie: Jack in the Alice Griffin Letters
A project to digitally restore a 75-year old drawing from my grandfather’s scrapbook started me on a journey to learn about both the man who it depicted and the artist who drew it… Read More The World War II Cartoons of Don Sudlow
One of the hospital’s wards received a direct hit from a dud German bomb during an air raid in April 1944. 74 years later, a search for more information about a family story about the incident raised as many questions as it answered… Read More The 32nd Station Hospital’s Close Call During a German Air Raid
As a rear echelon unit, the 32nd Station Hospital’s personnel had plenty of recreational opportunities, but the National Pastime proved the most enduring … Read More Off-Duty Pursuits at the 32nd Station Hospital
The 32nd Station Hospital’s personnel repurposed Italian military barracks into a complex that treated 21,735 patients in 18 months… Read More History of the 32nd Station Hospital: Part II (Italy, 1944–1945)
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