Francis served with The 227th General Hospital, U.S. Army. "During a miserable 1945 winter, the medical staff and support troops of the United State's Army's 227th General Hospital landed in Le Havre, France. Around 30 March they moved by train to an old French WWI Army camp outside of Reims in the little settlement of Mourmelon. Here they set up their hospital--one of five making up the area's "hospital center." Among the 227th's specialties were treating mental patients, acquiring and distributing blood, and supplying distilled water to nearby hospitals. Mourmelon's military airfield was frequently the home base of the famous 101st Airborne Division. Mourmelon lies about 93 miles northeast of Paris. As the War wound down, the 227th was retrained and took over a French hospital in Marseilles where it acted as the American Army hospital for all troops debarking from France."
Sources:
Edwin S. Semenza Oral History by Mary Ellen Glass, p. 101-102
http://www.renolittletheater.org/archive/documents/semenza.pdf
Wikipedia article on Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourmelon-le-Grand_Airfield
http://www.mwcsun.com/local/local_story_150130549.html
Medical Department, U.S. Army in WWII, "Blood Program in WWII," by Brigadier General Douglas B. Kendrick, MC, "General Hospitals," page 573
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/blood/chapter16.htm
(added by Bill Benson, distant relation)
Sources:
Edwin S. Semenza Oral History by Mary Ellen Glass, p. 101-102
http://www.renolittletheater.org/archive/documents/semenza.pdf
Wikipedia article on Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourmelon-le-Grand_Airfield
http://www.mwcsun.com/local/local_story_150130549.html
Medical Department, U.S. Army in WWII, "Blood Program in WWII," by Brigadier General Douglas B. Kendrick, MC, "General Hospitals," page 573
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/blood/chapter16.htm
(added by Bill Benson, distant relation)
Francis served with The 227th General Hospital, U.S. Army. "During a miserable 1945 winter, the medical staff and support troops of the United State's Army's 227th General Hospital landed in Le Havre, France. Around 30 March they moved by train to an old French WWI Army camp outside of Reims in the little settlement of Mourmelon. Here they set up their hospital--one of five making up the area's "hospital center." Among the 227th's specialties were treating mental patients, acquiring and distributing blood, and supplying distilled water to nearby hospitals. Mourmelon's military airfield was frequently the home base of the famous 101st Airborne Division. Mourmelon lies about 93 miles northeast of Paris. As the War wound down, the 227th was retrained and took over a French hospital in Marseilles where it acted as the American Army hospital for all troops debarking from France."
Sources:
Edwin S. Semenza Oral History by Mary Ellen Glass, p. 101-102
http://www.renolittletheater.org/archive/documents/semenza.pdf
Wikipedia article on Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourmelon-le-Grand_Airfield
http://www.mwcsun.com/local/local_story_150130549.html
Medical Department, U.S. Army in WWII, "Blood Program in WWII," by Brigadier General Douglas B. Kendrick, MC, "General Hospitals," page 573
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/blood/chapter16.htm
(added by Bill Benson, distant relation)
Sources:
Edwin S. Semenza Oral History by Mary Ellen Glass, p. 101-102
http://www.renolittletheater.org/archive/documents/semenza.pdf
Wikipedia article on Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourmelon-le-Grand_Airfield
http://www.mwcsun.com/local/local_story_150130549.html
Medical Department, U.S. Army in WWII, "Blood Program in WWII," by Brigadier General Douglas B. Kendrick, MC, "General Hospitals," page 573
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/blood/chapter16.htm
(added by Bill Benson, distant relation)
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