Scrapbook of photographs : Scrapbook 1944.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Description: Black covers, metal ring binding, 6th Service command patch glued to front cover interior. Includes only photographs: military portrait of Isenberg; Isenberg and friends inside and outside barracks studying and relaxing; training including marches, crossing a river on small boats, field mess; training in rough, countryside terrain during winter; gas mask training; exterior and interior views of Percy Jones General Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan including nurses and living quarters; indoor swimming pool; American Red Cross worker; wrestling match; an ambulance; a volleyball game; more hospital interiors and nurses; marching at military bases; bar interiors; men drinking; 101st General Hospital at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois; bivouac, camping, calisthenics; map of part of England, marked "left Boston July 19th, 1944 on USS West Point. Arrived Liverpool, England July 26th, 1944. Unit moved by rail same day to Taunton, Somerset"; 101st General Hospital and 67th General Hospital in England including manor houses and incendiary bomb drill, ambulance loading area, chapel, Quonset huts including orderly room with blackout hours, interior of orthopedics ward, officers quarters and lounge, pool tables, USO show, Royal Devonshire band; bomb damage to residences in Van Arsdale, Liverpool; receiving an ?evacuation? of 300 injured patients from France using hospital trains and ambulances; interiors of train litter cars with nurses checking on injured; train dispensary; Taunton air raid shelters; Taunton village scenes; visiting the abbey at Crowcombe; Dunster, England; Salisbury Cathedral; London, England including Buckingham Palace, Palace of St. James, bomb damage, Red Cross women in London, Wells cathedral; Bishop's Palace, Wells; Stonehenge; barrage balloon over southern England; bomb damage to churches and buildings in Southern England; map of Edinburgh and Glasgow; Scottish landscapes and castles; operating room interior during operation; map from Brighton to Paris, Luxemburg and Nancy; Paris, France city scenes and monuments.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on June 12, 2019).