Description

56th Evacuation Hospital – The Story of the 56th Evac

Printed By Holling Press Inc., Buffalo, New York          144 Pages

Contents :

Meritorious Service Award

Dedication

Commanding Officers
     Colonel Henry S. Blesse
     Colonel Kenneth F. Ernst

Staff Page

Story of the 56th Evacuation Hospital
     I. U. S. A.
     Organization of the hospital – early training – Louisiana maneuvers — overseas alert – Camp Shanks – New York to Casablanca by troopship.
     II. Casablanca
     Camp Don B. Passage – Arabs and Frenchmen-overland trip to Bizerre.
     III. Bizerte
     Camp Nador-first overseas patients-air raids.
     IV. Paestum – Avellino
     Arrival in Italy – bivouac near ancient Paestum – busy days at Avellino – ruins of Pompeii.
     V. Dragoni
     Rain, rain, rain – winter in the mud.
     VI. Anzio
     Bivouac at Caivano – sea trip to Anzio – life and death on the beachhead – return to Naples.
     VII. Nocelleto
     Life in comparative peace.
     VIII. Fondi – Rome – Piombino – Peccioli
     Hunger at Fondi – Rome at last – sightseeing in the Eternal City – hospital in a wheatfield at Piombino – peaceful valley of Peccioli.
     IX. Scarperia
     Across the Arno – Florence-Stalemate in the north Apennines – second winter overseas.
     X. Bologna
     Mussolini stadium – Kraut prisoners in droves – Germany collapses.
     XI. Udine
     Trouble with Tito over Trieste – Venice – redeployment – move to Montecatini – Peace at Last.

Names And Addresses Of 56th Personnel