Two US servicemen standing in front of the 24th General Hospital's Commanding Officer's tent in Tunisia in 1943
Gift in Memory of Dr. Thomas Edward Weiss, from the collection of the National World War II Museum
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Two US servicemen standing in front of the 24th General Hospital's Commanding Officer's tent. "Taken last summer ('43) as I stood in front of the "Old man's tent", awaiting at a truck to go to the dump where we were wrestling with our supplier. That is not a black eye - just the way the sun caught my glasses." 24th General Hospital, Bizerte, Tunisia, North Africa. 1943
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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
Tents--Tunisia