Excerpts of letters including ones about an Armistice Day ceremony, the departure of a good friend, a snowstorm in Africa, Thanksgiving, a song about paratroopers, and the unit’s departure from Tlemcen to a staging area near Oran… Read More Letters from the Alice Griffin Collection: Part V (November & December 1943)
Excerpts of letters discussing (among other things) ration cuts, a visit to a rest camp, the tensions of a new C.O., an inadvertent double date, and a Halloween party… Read More Letters from the Alice Griffin Collection: Part IV (September & October 1943)
Excerpts of letters by a 32nd Station Hospital nurse in the summer of 1943… Read More Letters from the Alice Griffin Collection: Part III (July & August 1943)
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
Nurses’ biographies, listed alphabetically from Barone to Griffin… Read More Nurses of the 32nd Station Hospital: Part I (Last Names A–G)
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)
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