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The 56th Evac. Hospital by Lawrence D. Collins (1995, Hardcover)
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
Series: War and the Southwest Series ; No. 4
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0929398831
ISBN-13: 9780929398839
Product ID: EPID764497
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Publication Date:1995-06-01
Series:War and the Southwest Series ; No. 4

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Height:9.5 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:23.2 oz

Publisher's Note
"I see no way that we junior officers will ever be prepared for any major surgery....I've a premonition that in time it is inevitable. We'll have to perform major surgery on our own, ready or not". Thus wrote Dr. L. D. Collins at the beginning of his tour of duty with the 56th Evacuation Hospital (a mobile tent hospital similar to the M*A*S*H units of Korean War fame), largely staffed by men and women who trained at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas, Texas. Collins chronicles the experiences of the "Baylor Unit", from its training in Texas, through the relatively uncomplicated months in Morocco and Bizerte, to its service in Italy at Paestum, Dragoni, and worst of all, the desperate "Hell's Half Acre" of Anzio Beach. Because of frequent shelling of the hospitals, patients were known to go AWOL to the front, where it was considered safer. During the Anzio campaign, 92 medical personnel were killed in action, 387 were wounded, 19 captured and 60 more missing in action.

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Collins's letters to his wife, mother and sister record his experiences with the Army's ``Baylor unit,'' a medical team mobilized out of Baylor Medical School in Dallas during WWII that cared for GIs in the North African and Italian theaters from 1942 to '45. His somewhat bland letters hide from his family the fact that he was in a hot combat zone; for several weeks, his tent hospital was stationed on the Anzio beachhead, from which Collins wrote: ``Be reassured that the jerries respect our red crosses and that their marksmanship is good, so we're always safe.'' The most harrowing passages in the letters have to do with details of surgery performed on wounded men, especially an account of a quadruple amputation. A highlight of Collins's final months of overseas service was an audience with Pope Pius: ``He had the personality of a most excellent politician.'' Photos. (May)
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