Letters, June-August 1945
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- 00.0665 - Box 1, Folder 014
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Serving with the 624th Medical Battalion in Dijon, France, then Second Replacement Depot, Worms, Germany. Concert by soprano Grace Moore and tenor Nino Martin at Sportpalast, Berlin. Photo of Rochelson and Dr. Schmitz in Arlon, Belgium at time of Battle of Bastogne. Long description of his deployment from Camp Manhattan to Valognes, France. Trip to London to get equipment, description of bomb damage. Return to find Battle of the Bulge had begun, attached to the 182nd Medical Battalion. Medical situation during Battle of Bastogne. Wounded from 17th Airbone Division. Duty with the 65th Field Hospital, then recently liberated Wiltz, Luxembourg, then to Mondorf-les-Baines under the 436th Medical Battalion, 65th Medical Regiment. then to 104th Evacuation Hospital in Trier, Germany, then Mainz, Germany, after US crossing of Rhine. Transferred to 427th Medical Battalion at Bad/Neustadt/Saale and then Bamberg. Photo of convalescent hospital in Mondorf. Prices in Worms in June 1945. Jewish community at Worms and remnants of Jewish culture explained by US Army Chaplain Harold Saperstein. Transferred back to Paris, dispensary near Boi de Boulogne. Cabarets, opera, movies reviewed.
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