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Introduction: Born in 1923, I got drafted at 20 years of age. I was inducted April 27, 1943 and was almost immediately ordered to Ft. Dix, Wrightstown, New Jersey (Training & Pre-Staging Center, troop capacity 1,825 Officers and 51,598 Enlisted Men) for indoctrination, medical examination and further orders. I spent about a week here. We […]

Introduction: Albert Isidore Davis was born 2 May 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was to spend the major part of his life dedicated to Medicine. He would practice General Medicine and Surgery for 7 years as a successful Physician and General Practitioner (starting in 1936), and was also a Plant Physician for shipyards and steel […]

Introduction: Arthur George Christensen, was born on 11 September 1918 in Derby, Connecticut. After receiving primary education (8 years of Grammar School and 4 years of High School), Art went to Dartmouth College, School of Business and Finance, where he followed another 4 years of classes. After having registered for Selective Service with the local […]

Introduction: My name is Mary Helen Jost. I was born January 27,  1920 at the West Suburban Hospital, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, to Alfred E. Jost and Helen C. Hoffmann. Following 8 years of Grammar School, I graduated from York County High School after majoring in Science in 1938. I then entered the University […]

Introduction: Here follow some notes and pictures relating to the 59th Evacuation Hospital received from Mrs. Joanne McLaughlin, following her correspondence with the MRC Staff, and reproduced here with her kind permission. My father’s name is George P. McLaughlin, he was born on 12 April 1920 in Cohasset, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and was inducted into the […]

Introduction: My name is Helen I. Hyatt. I was born October 19, 1915, near Masonville (46 miles north of Denver), Larimer County, Colorado, United States of America – one of seven children. My parents were Roy and Jessie (Roseberry) Hyatt. Both sets of my grandparents were pioneers traveling from Missouri to the west coast and […]

Introduction: Edna Haertig was born on 12 January 1918 on a farm in Bonnie View, Texas. She graduated from Woodsboro High School in 1934, and attended Texas State College for Women in Denton for a year where she took classes in Business Administration. When a local doctor learned she wanted to be a Nurse, he […]

Introduction: My name is Alfred G. Myhill, I was born 21 April 1925 in Oswego County, Fulton, New York. After attending Grammar School and 2 years of agricultural studies at Fulton High School, I quit High School and worked as a farmhand on local farms and helping my father, Milford Myhill on the family farm […]

Introduction: My name is Anthony S. D’Angelo. I was born 19 October 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. My Parents were Salvatore D’Angelo and Josephine Pepitone, who immigrated to the United States in 1898 and 1904 respectively. My siblings were Peter, Joseph, Jean, Kathryn, and Rose. My education started with Elementary Junior School, subsequently […]

Introduction: Civilian Life – Pre War Merwin Joseph DeKorp was born on 16 December 1912 in the Bronx, New York, to Sidney and Grace DeKorp and spent his young years in Brooklyn and later, as a teenager, lived in Manhattan on West 86th Street. He had only one brother. Dad excelled at his studies and […]