26th General Hospital

Fgrun83 · #1 (**permalink**) April 21st, 2009, 05:26 AM

I was trying to find some information on the 26th gen. hosp. during world war 2. Any help would be grateful i've tried to google it but i come up with the soap opera information

Slipdigit · #2 (**permalink**) April 21st, 2009, 01:54 PM

Here is a small picture of it

Fifth Army Field Surgeon.htm

a first hand account
Share Your Story : Minnesota's Greatest Generation : mnhs.org

Shoot, here's is my search results. There were several hits.

"26th General Hospital" WWII - Google Search=

List of general hospitals http://home.att.net/~steinert/a_list..._hospitals.htm

Fgrun83 · #3 (**permalink**) April 21st, 2009, 03:32 PM

Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate it

Fgrun83 · #4 (**permalink**) April 21st, 2009, 06:20 PM

One last question i have on the 26th is my grandpa was a surgeon there but under decorations it says :Bronze Star Medal GO 21 HQ 85th Infantry Division 19 June 1944 does this mean he received the bronze star from the 85th infantry div hq, or was it for his action involved with the 85th??

Fgrun83 · #5 (**permalink**) April 21st, 2009, 06:20 PM

One last question i have on the 26th is my grandpa was a surgeon there but under decorations it says :Bronze Star Medal GO 21 HQ 85th Infantry Division 19 June 1944 does this mean he received the bronze star from the 85th infantry div hq, or was it for his action involved with the 85th??

TigerPaw · #6 (**permalink**) November 1st, 2009, 07:31 AM

Between the Lines: Overseas with the Red Cross and OSS in World War II
A memoir in letters by Elizabeth Phenix Wiesner

Working in a Boston doctor's office when the war begins, Lee Phenix joins the American Red Cross to serve with the 26th General Hospital in North Africa. In Bari, Italy, she witnesses the air raid that causes disaster when German bombers sink an American ship secretly loaded with mustard gas. Leaving the Red Cross for OSS, she moves to Spain and England, then becomes Allen Dulles's secretary in Switzerland. For security reasons she cannot write home about spy matters, of course; instead her letters to her parents reveal the vibrant day-to-day life of a young American woman doing vital work in Europe and the Mediterranean during WWII. (After the war, Miss Phenix married a diplomat, raised a family and answered a call to the Episcopal priesthood as related in her earlier book, Pilgrim and Pioneer, Churchman Publishing Ltd/Morehouse, 1989.)

(Hardbound, 284 pages, $21.95, ISBN 1-889274-04-6.)