Letters, 1944
- Containers:
- 00.0665 - Box 1, Folder 012
- Scope and content:
Rochelson is assigned to the 665th Clearing Company, 181st Medical Battallion and attached to the 17th Airborne Division during manuevers in Tennessee, then transferred to 86th Medical Battalion/ 331st Medical Group, then to the 624th Clearing Company still under the 86th Med. Bn. He explains formation of 86th Medical Battalion He describes his duties and the time taken to set up small hospital with surgery Along with Camp Forrest, he describes sight seeing in Murfreesboro and Nashville, a streetcar strike in Chattanooga, and increased numbers of women factory workers, police, and truck drives in Huntsville, AL. . He celebrates Passover in a tent, and describes Infantry Day at Camp Forrest where Chinese Army colonels are in attendance. he also attends Chattanooga Cotton Ball. After transferring to Fort Benning, GA, in August, his letters are censored as he is deployed to England and then France.
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