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French workers make hospital trays from wrecked Nazi planes. Captain Philip R. Perrault (right) of South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, watches a French workmen polish hospital mess trays which have been made from aluminium salvaged from wrecked Nazi planes. George Carre (left), supervisor of French workmen at the U.S. ordnance depot which daily manufactures 500 trays, designed the machinery for makingthem. ...

Geallieerde troepen in Nederland. U.S. hospital in Holland bombed by Nazis. These ambulances were wrecked when the Germans bombed a U.S. Army hospital in Holland. Four American soldiers were killed by the bombs. The hospital roof bore a red cross 50 feet square.

Forty and eight cars form first U.S. hospital train in France. American walking wounded lean out of the windows and doors of the first U.S. hospital train operating in France, converted from the famous 40 men and eight horse cars used in the last war. The cars were pressed into temporary service by the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the rapid advance of American forces in Normandy. Major L.M. Erenburg ...

Allied prisoners rescued from Japanese taken to U.S. hospital. Allied prisoners of war who were found in need of medical treatment when they were released from a Japanese interment camp are carried to a U.S. hospital ship in a small boat. By Aug. 30, 1945, a total of 1.494 prisoners had been freed from seven camps on the evemy mainland. U.S. Navy Commander Harold E. Stassen, former Governor of the ...