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)
Firsthand accounts of the 32nd Station Hospital’s voyage to Algeria (which proved more nerve-wracking than eventful)… Read More Convoy U.G.F.-4: The 32nd Station Hospital’s Transatlantic Crossing, January 1943
The story behind why I decided to start researching the 32nd Station Hospital and how the project has developed… Read More About This Project
Unraveling the 75-year old mystery of a 32nd Station Hospital nurse who was killed in a plane crash… Read More The Mystery of Rachel H. Sheridan, the 32nd Station Hospital’s Lost Nurse
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)
A brief history of the 32nd Station Hospital from its activation at Camp Rucker through its service in Tlemcen, Algeria… Read More History of the 32nd Station Hospital: Part I (Stateside and Algeria, 1942–1943)
Table of contents for upcoming site and list for further reading… Read More Introduction to the U.S. Army 32nd Station Hospital (1942–1945)
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