Description

CONTENTS
MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD
DEDICATION
COMMANDING OFFICERS
STAFF PAGE
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. BIZER TE
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