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Oran, Algeria ("Goat Hill"): April – May 1944
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| Although the officers and enlisted men referred to our bivouac, or staging
area outside of Oran, as "Goat Hill", we were actually camping in a
large vineyard. |
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| The 51st nurses were housed on the other side
of Oran at Ain el Turk, a fine beach resort, which meant a long truck
ride over and back in the evenings to visit and enjoy their Officers’ Club. |
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| In May, during our noon meal, we looked up into a clear, blue sky to see what
looked like snow falling. |
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| It was a locust plague descending on the
vineyard, a horde of 4 inch "eating machines" that stripped the
countryside of every green, growing thing in the next few days. |
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| The first week of June 1944, a hospital ship ferried the entire
51st
Evac. Hospital across the Mediterranean to Naples, Italy. As we entered Naples
harbor, with Mt. Vesuvius still belching smoke from a recent eruption, the first news we received was that Rome had been liberated that day. |
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