Post by connie on Apr 13, 2009 12:10:47 GMT -5
Floyd started this subject off in the third note under "trench foot"
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Hello:
Army Hospitals!
Many of them were near, or, as close to the front lines as possible.
The Army Medics had what they called "collecting stations". That's where all the casualties were taken first; then treated.
From there wounded & the sick would be transfered to another Army Hospital.
Anyway, that's the way the medics handled some of us when we were taken from the battlefield. As we left the collecting station a medic gave me a capsule & cup of water. There must have been a sedative in the capsule; it put me so sleep.
When I woke up I had no idea as to where I was. It took a while to realize that I was in a Hospital. That building had been a warehouse at one time and the Army Medics turned it into a hospital. It was "full" of men lying on stretchers.
The medics treated us, then sent the G.I.'s on to another hospital. It too had been, I believe, used for something else during peace time; such as a private school, I think.
Again, there were no beds; just folding Army Cots. One patient whom I recognized was our Regimental Commander, Col. Alexander Reed; his Army Cot was next to mine. I don't recall if he was wounded, or sick.
More sophisticated hospitals were located in England, or central France and Soldiers were sent there if their wounds were of a more serious nature.
If the Army Medics determined a G.I. was fit for more combat, they got him on his feet as fast as possible and sent him back for more front line duty.
When discharged from the hospital every patient was supposed to get "new clothes"; yet most of us had to put the same clothes on that we wore when admitted. The Germans had disrupted American supply lines that bad.
So, there were no clean clothes to sport when we went back to the front lines.
Floyd,
2nd Btn., 424th Infantry
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Hello:
Army Hospitals!
Many of them were near, or, as close to the front lines as possible.
The Army Medics had what they called "collecting stations". That's where all the casualties were taken first; then treated.
From there wounded & the sick would be transfered to another Army Hospital.
Anyway, that's the way the medics handled some of us when we were taken from the battlefield. As we left the collecting station a medic gave me a capsule & cup of water. There must have been a sedative in the capsule; it put me so sleep.
When I woke up I had no idea as to where I was. It took a while to realize that I was in a Hospital. That building had been a warehouse at one time and the Army Medics turned it into a hospital. It was "full" of men lying on stretchers.
The medics treated us, then sent the G.I.'s on to another hospital. It too had been, I believe, used for something else during peace time; such as a private school, I think.
Again, there were no beds; just folding Army Cots. One patient whom I recognized was our Regimental Commander, Col. Alexander Reed; his Army Cot was next to mine. I don't recall if he was wounded, or sick.
More sophisticated hospitals were located in England, or central France and Soldiers were sent there if their wounds were of a more serious nature.
If the Army Medics determined a G.I. was fit for more combat, they got him on his feet as fast as possible and sent him back for more front line duty.
When discharged from the hospital every patient was supposed to get "new clothes"; yet most of us had to put the same clothes on that we wore when admitted. The Germans had disrupted American supply lines that bad.
So, there were no clean clothes to sport when we went back to the front lines.
Floyd,
2nd Btn., 424th Infantry
