24th General Hospital doctors with mustaches in Bizerte, Tunisia in January 1944
Gift in Memory of Dr. Thomas Edward Weiss, from the collection of the National World War II Museum
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Four medical officers with mustaches posing for photograph. "Left to Right - Phil Bayan - Sidney Meisnaw, Peter Everett, Tom Weiss. Taken Jan 29, 1944 - 24th Gen Hospital. Title: "The four mustaches." Lt. Col. Meisnaw is from Chicago and is a mighty fine friend. He is the person who has been working with me in photography. The others you know." 24th General Hospital, Bizerte, Tunisia, North Africa. 29 January 1944
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Items from the service of Dr. Thomas Weiss who served with the 24th General Hospital in North Africa and Italy. Almost all members of this hospital, including Weiss, were graduates of or medical staff at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. They operated from Fort Benning until August 1943 when they embarked for North Africa where they opened a hospital in Bizerte, Tunisia. There they cared for the wounded during the early phases of the invasion of Italy. They eventually moved to Italy where they cared for casualties of the Fifth Army. The men of this hospital famously held a Mardi Gras celebration in Italy on 13 February, 1945.
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Bizerte
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37.300
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9.867
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Medical personnel--American--Tunisia
Mustaches--Tunisia