Photo Gallery Three
Photo Gallery Three
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on image to enlarge Here you see Captain Gerard
Krueger, Adjutant, and Thomas J. Hagerty, Assistant Registrar. These
two men were excellent administrative Officers. I worked with both
of them in my capacity as a clerk typist in the Registrar's office. Haggerty
was a very good baseball player; and had a great personality. Krueger
was a pleasure to know in that he liked to tell a good joke and was terrific
at any party. |
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on image to enlarge Here you see some of our enlisted
men on the roof of our hotel. Note the leggings on the man closest to the
camera. We hated these things, but they had to be worn before combat
boots came into being. We were able to buy and drink beer and for some
time we had dances up here with military big bands. At times
some of our nurses joined us. Note the floor is of some kind of brick or
tile. |
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on image to enlarge This is a typical French scene, outdoor
garden type drinking places. The building on the right was the Red
Cross Club - probably the most modern building around this part of the
country. These French people really knew how to take life easily
considering this was July, 1943, when France had been overrun by
the German Army, and in my opinion, the French did very little to help
in the war leaving most of it to the Americans and the British to fight
the war.. Many French escaped to French North Africa; they made up
about half of the population of Tlemcen. |
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on image to enlarge Here is 1st Lt. Herman C. Needles,
our registrar. Smoking was the "in thing" those days. At one time
he wore a pencil mustache trying to look like Errol Flynn, the handsome
movie star of those days. He took a lot of kidding and shaved it
off. |
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on image to enlarge Here you see me, the writer, the
Red Cross worker, Dorothy Clark, and John Jones a fellow worker of mine
in the registrar's office. Taken on the roof or our hospital building. |
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on image to enlarge Here are three of my favorite friends.
From left you see 1st Lt. Herman C. Needles, our registrar; our
Red Cross worker, Dorothy Clark, and Warrant Officer Thomas Haggerty, personnel
officer. Picture was taken on the roof of our hospital building.
Needles and I became great friends and after all these years we still speak
to each other on the phone several times a month. Sorry to
say that both Clark and Haggerty have passed away. |
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on image to enlarge Here you see Sgt. Fred Weber who
was in charge of men working on hospital wards. He is sitting on
the balcony of our hotel room; note the sign behind him. He
was a good friend and came from Sheboygen, Wisconsin, having worked for
the Kohler Plumbing Manufacturing Company. He and I could speak German
and when we wanted to discuss matters confidential to us, this came in
handy. He was very talented playing the trumpet; he had it shipped
from home and would play "Good Nights Ladies" at 10 o'clock bed time. Fred
died several years ago. |
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on image to enlarge This man with the dark glasses was
Phillipe "Frenchie" Girard. Frenchie was raised from French descendants
and he had a French accent which made it difficult to understand
him at times. Frenchie was a good truck driver and being French,
speaking the language, etc., he was in "Seventh Heaven" when we arrived
in this French North African town, Tlemcen. He had a lot of friends. |
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