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Old September 20th, 2007, 11:19 PM
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Default Re: WWII Forums Quiz Part VII

I'll bite.

"The Doctors were brutalized by their ordeal and became inured to ragged stumps where strong, youthful arms and legs had been, to eyes that had been shattered by concussion, to an unending variety of holes in human flesh, to grisly burns, to oozing hamburger like chests, and backs, and abdomens, to exposed intestines, to the beseeching eyes of damaged teenagers."
Never designed as a Hospital ship, but took on the job of one.
Before she sailed to Pearl Harbor she had 550 wounded men below decks, a number (believe it or not) surpassed...to 600 at another place.

Name the ship.
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