Charles M. Wiltse, WWII Medical Services in the Mediterranean and Minor Theatres (Washington D.C. 1963), pg 275
"Hospitalization on Anzio Beachhead
The area selected for the U.S. installations was on low ground near the sea. Drainage was poor and the water table so close to the surface that disposal pits and foxholes could not be dug to proper depth. With all installations under canvas, the prevailing dampness added to the heating problem, making stoves, fresh straw, and extra blankets necessary. By 2 February, when control of the hospitals reverted to Fifth Army, the 56th, 93d, and 95th Evacuation Hospitals and two platoons of the 33d Field Hospital were in the area with an aggregate Table of Organization bed strength of 1,750.
Beachhead hospitals had been functioning at their new locations for no more than a week when the first of a long series of bombings and shellings occurred. It was impossible to put the medical installations out of range, and equally impossible in that overcrowded wedge of purgatory to site them a safe distance from legitimate military targets. Even when the beachhead was blotted out by a protective screen of smoke, the German gunners managed to find their marks. So good, indeed, was their observation, and so accurate their marksmanship, that it was impossible to attribute all the damage in the hospital area to accident.
On 7 February an enemy plane, closely pursued by Allied fighters, jettisoned its load over the hospital area. Five antipersonnel bombs landed on the tents of the 95th Evacuation Hospital, where 400 patients were being cared for. Newly wounded men were being carried in from the ambulances, the X-ray tent was crowded, and the operating rooms were working to capacity. Twenty-six persons were killed and 64 wounded."
Colonel R. L. Bauchspies, M.D., "Military Medicine - Part II" - "The Courageous Medics of Anzio", February 1958. p.120.
"Shortly after 1500 hours on this day a raid was made by enemy fighter bombers. One plane, separated from the rest and under attack by a British Spitfire, jettisoned its load of anti-personnel bombs in an effort to gain altitude and elude his pursuer. This bomb load fell in a characteristic pattern from one side to the center of the area occupied by the 95th Evacuation Hospital. Bomb fragments riddled the administrative, receiving and operating tents, killing or seriously wounding the occupants and destroying equipment. Two other nurses and Second Lieutenant MORROW, Army Nurse Corps, were killed while completing the administration of blood plasma to a patient."
Edith A. Ayres, major, A.N.C., U.S.A., Retired, From Nightingale to Eagle: An Army Nurse's History (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1973) pp. 247/248.
"Among the 26 persons killed on the Anzio beachhead on the 7th of February, 1944, were three nurses: First Lieutenants Blanche Sigman, the chief nurse of the 95th Evacuation Hospital, Carrie Sheetz, the assistant chief nurse, and Marjorie Morrow. An enemy plane, engaged by a Spitfire in a dogfight over the beachhead "in an apparent effort to gain altitude, jettisoned his load of A.P. bombs over the area occupied by the 95th Evac."
Memorial Biography of Marjorie Gertrude Morrow at the Iowa Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, Des Moines, Iowa
"Miss Morrow volunteered for duty in the Army Nurses Corps in 1942 and trained at Fort Francis E. Warren in Wyoming. In April 1943 she was sent overseas with the 95th Evacuation Hospital Unit. Nine days later this unit of 30 nurses, 30 officers and 120 enlisted men landed at Casablanca, North Africa, where they set up their first hospital. Later they moved to Brizerette, North Africa to await the invasion of Italy.
Aboard the Hospital Ship Newfoundland, they crossed the Mediterranean to Salerno, Italy. Unable to land because of air raids and heavy bombing, they were sent 30 miles out to sea, when a plane bombed the ship, sinking it. They manned life boats and eventually the survivors were rescued by the Hospital Ship St. Andrews and taken back to Brizerette, North Africa.
The unit was given new supplies and clothing and put on L.C.I.'s to cross again the rough Mediterranean to Paestion, italy. Three days later the unit moved to Naples where they boarded L.C.I's for the invasion of Italy.
Lieutenant Morrow's days at Anzio were filled with continuing air raids and hard work with many casualties, and only occasional times for rest in foxholes. On the morning of February 7, 1944, she and her companions received their first mail in a month."
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Entered the service from Iowa. Service ID: N-733475.
"Hospitalization on Anzio Beachhead
The area selected for the U.S. installations was on low ground near the sea. Drainage was poor and the water table so close to the surface that disposal pits and foxholes could not be dug to proper depth. With all installations under canvas, the prevailing dampness added to the heating problem, making stoves, fresh straw, and extra blankets necessary. By 2 February, when control of the hospitals reverted to Fifth Army, the 56th, 93d, and 95th Evacuation Hospitals and two platoons of the 33d Field Hospital were in the area with an aggregate Table of Organization bed strength of 1,750.
Beachhead hospitals had been functioning at their new locations for no more than a week when the first of a long series of bombings and shellings occurred. It was impossible to put the medical installations out of range, and equally impossible in that overcrowded wedge of purgatory to site them a safe distance from legitimate military targets. Even when the beachhead was blotted out by a protective screen of smoke, the German gunners managed to find their marks. So good, indeed, was their observation, and so accurate their marksmanship, that it was impossible to attribute all the damage in the hospital area to accident.
On 7 February an enemy plane, closely pursued by Allied fighters, jettisoned its load over the hospital area. Five antipersonnel bombs landed on the tents of the 95th Evacuation Hospital, where 400 patients were being cared for. Newly wounded men were being carried in from the ambulances, the X-ray tent was crowded, and the operating rooms were working to capacity. Twenty-six persons were killed and 64 wounded."
Colonel R. L. Bauchspies, M.D., "Military Medicine - Part II" - "The Courageous Medics of Anzio", February 1958. p.120.
"Shortly after 1500 hours on this day a raid was made by enemy fighter bombers. One plane, separated from the rest and under attack by a British Spitfire, jettisoned its load of anti-personnel bombs in an effort to gain altitude and elude his pursuer. This bomb load fell in a characteristic pattern from one side to the center of the area occupied by the 95th Evacuation Hospital. Bomb fragments riddled the administrative, receiving and operating tents, killing or seriously wounding the occupants and destroying equipment. Two other nurses and Second Lieutenant MORROW, Army Nurse Corps, were killed while completing the administration of blood plasma to a patient."
Edith A. Ayres, major, A.N.C., U.S.A., Retired, From Nightingale to Eagle: An Army Nurse's History (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1973) pp. 247/248.
"Among the 26 persons killed on the Anzio beachhead on the 7th of February, 1944, were three nurses: First Lieutenants Blanche Sigman, the chief nurse of the 95th Evacuation Hospital, Carrie Sheetz, the assistant chief nurse, and Marjorie Morrow. An enemy plane, engaged by a Spitfire in a dogfight over the beachhead "in an apparent effort to gain altitude, jettisoned his load of A.P. bombs over the area occupied by the 95th Evac."
Memorial Biography of Marjorie Gertrude Morrow at the Iowa Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, Des Moines, Iowa
"Miss Morrow volunteered for duty in the Army Nurses Corps in 1942 and trained at Fort Francis E. Warren in Wyoming. In April 1943 she was sent overseas with the 95th Evacuation Hospital Unit. Nine days later this unit of 30 nurses, 30 officers and 120 enlisted men landed at Casablanca, North Africa, where they set up their first hospital. Later they moved to Brizerette, North Africa to await the invasion of Italy.
Aboard the Hospital Ship Newfoundland, they crossed the Mediterranean to Salerno, Italy. Unable to land because of air raids and heavy bombing, they were sent 30 miles out to sea, when a plane bombed the ship, sinking it. They manned life boats and eventually the survivors were rescued by the Hospital Ship St. Andrews and taken back to Brizerette, North Africa.
The unit was given new supplies and clothing and put on L.C.I.'s to cross again the rough Mediterranean to Paestion, italy. Three days later the unit moved to Naples where they boarded L.C.I's for the invasion of Italy.
Lieutenant Morrow's days at Anzio were filled with continuing air raids and hard work with many casualties, and only occasional times for rest in foxholes. On the morning of February 7, 1944, she and her companions received their first mail in a month."
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Entered the service from Iowa. Service ID: N-733475.
Charles M. Wiltse, WWII Medical Services in the Mediterranean and Minor Theatres (Washington D.C. 1963), pg 275
"Hospitalization on Anzio Beachhead
The area selected for the U.S. installations was on low ground near the sea. Drainage was poor and the water table so close to the surface that disposal pits and foxholes could not be dug to proper depth. With all installations under canvas, the prevailing dampness added to the heating problem, making stoves, fresh straw, and extra blankets necessary. By 2 February, when control of the hospitals reverted to Fifth Army, the 56th, 93d, and 95th Evacuation Hospitals and two platoons of the 33d Field Hospital were in the area with an aggregate Table of Organization bed strength of 1,750.
Beachhead hospitals had been functioning at their new locations for no more than a week when the first of a long series of bombings and shellings occurred. It was impossible to put the medical installations out of range, and equally impossible in that overcrowded wedge of purgatory to site them a safe distance from legitimate military targets. Even when the beachhead was blotted out by a protective screen of smoke, the German gunners managed to find their marks. So good, indeed, was their observation, and so accurate their marksmanship, that it was impossible to attribute all the damage in the hospital area to accident.
On 7 February an enemy plane, closely pursued by Allied fighters, jettisoned its load over the hospital area. Five antipersonnel bombs landed on the tents of the 95th Evacuation Hospital, where 400 patients were being cared for. Newly wounded men were being carried in from the ambulances, the X-ray tent was crowded, and the operating rooms were working to capacity. Twenty-six persons were killed and 64 wounded."
Colonel R. L. Bauchspies, M.D., "Military Medicine - Part II" - "The Courageous Medics of Anzio", February 1958. p.120.
"Shortly after 1500 hours on this day a raid was made by enemy fighter bombers. One plane, separated from the rest and under attack by a British Spitfire, jettisoned its load of anti-personnel bombs in an effort to gain altitude and elude his pursuer. This bomb load fell in a characteristic pattern from one side to the center of the area occupied by the 95th Evacuation Hospital. Bomb fragments riddled the administrative, receiving and operating tents, killing or seriously wounding the occupants and destroying equipment. Two other nurses and Second Lieutenant MORROW, Army Nurse Corps, were killed while completing the administration of blood plasma to a patient."
Edith A. Ayres, major, A.N.C., U.S.A., Retired, From Nightingale to Eagle: An Army Nurse's History (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1973) pp. 247/248.
"Among the 26 persons killed on the Anzio beachhead on the 7th of February, 1944, were three nurses: First Lieutenants Blanche Sigman, the chief nurse of the 95th Evacuation Hospital, Carrie Sheetz, the assistant chief nurse, and Marjorie Morrow. An enemy plane, engaged by a Spitfire in a dogfight over the beachhead "in an apparent effort to gain altitude, jettisoned his load of A.P. bombs over the area occupied by the 95th Evac."
Memorial Biography of Marjorie Gertrude Morrow at the Iowa Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, Des Moines, Iowa
"Miss Morrow volunteered for duty in the Army Nurses Corps in 1942 and trained at Fort Francis E. Warren in Wyoming. In April 1943 she was sent overseas with the 95th Evacuation Hospital Unit. Nine days later this unit of 30 nurses, 30 officers and 120 enlisted men landed at Casablanca, North Africa, where they set up their first hospital. Later they moved to Brizerette, North Africa to await the invasion of Italy.
Aboard the Hospital Ship Newfoundland, they crossed the Mediterranean to Salerno, Italy. Unable to land because of air raids and heavy bombing, they were sent 30 miles out to sea, when a plane bombed the ship, sinking it. They manned life boats and eventually the survivors were rescued by the Hospital Ship St. Andrews and taken back to Brizerette, North Africa.
The unit was given new supplies and clothing and put on L.C.I.'s to cross again the rough Mediterranean to Paestion, italy. Three days later the unit moved to Naples where they boarded L.C.I's for the invasion of Italy.
Lieutenant Morrow's days at Anzio were filled with continuing air raids and hard work with many casualties, and only occasional times for rest in foxholes. On the morning of February 7, 1944, she and her companions received their first mail in a month."
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Entered the service from Iowa. Service ID: N-733475.
"Hospitalization on Anzio Beachhead
The area selected for the U.S. installations was on low ground near the sea. Drainage was poor and the water table so close to the surface that disposal pits and foxholes could not be dug to proper depth. With all installations under canvas, the prevailing dampness added to the heating problem, making stoves, fresh straw, and extra blankets necessary. By 2 February, when control of the hospitals reverted to Fifth Army, the 56th, 93d, and 95th Evacuation Hospitals and two platoons of the 33d Field Hospital were in the area with an aggregate Table of Organization bed strength of 1,750.
Beachhead hospitals had been functioning at their new locations for no more than a week when the first of a long series of bombings and shellings occurred. It was impossible to put the medical installations out of range, and equally impossible in that overcrowded wedge of purgatory to site them a safe distance from legitimate military targets. Even when the beachhead was blotted out by a protective screen of smoke, the German gunners managed to find their marks. So good, indeed, was their observation, and so accurate their marksmanship, that it was impossible to attribute all the damage in the hospital area to accident.
On 7 February an enemy plane, closely pursued by Allied fighters, jettisoned its load over the hospital area. Five antipersonnel bombs landed on the tents of the 95th Evacuation Hospital, where 400 patients were being cared for. Newly wounded men were being carried in from the ambulances, the X-ray tent was crowded, and the operating rooms were working to capacity. Twenty-six persons were killed and 64 wounded."
Colonel R. L. Bauchspies, M.D., "Military Medicine - Part II" - "The Courageous Medics of Anzio", February 1958. p.120.
"Shortly after 1500 hours on this day a raid was made by enemy fighter bombers. One plane, separated from the rest and under attack by a British Spitfire, jettisoned its load of anti-personnel bombs in an effort to gain altitude and elude his pursuer. This bomb load fell in a characteristic pattern from one side to the center of the area occupied by the 95th Evacuation Hospital. Bomb fragments riddled the administrative, receiving and operating tents, killing or seriously wounding the occupants and destroying equipment. Two other nurses and Second Lieutenant MORROW, Army Nurse Corps, were killed while completing the administration of blood plasma to a patient."
Edith A. Ayres, major, A.N.C., U.S.A., Retired, From Nightingale to Eagle: An Army Nurse's History (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1973) pp. 247/248.
"Among the 26 persons killed on the Anzio beachhead on the 7th of February, 1944, were three nurses: First Lieutenants Blanche Sigman, the chief nurse of the 95th Evacuation Hospital, Carrie Sheetz, the assistant chief nurse, and Marjorie Morrow. An enemy plane, engaged by a Spitfire in a dogfight over the beachhead "in an apparent effort to gain altitude, jettisoned his load of A.P. bombs over the area occupied by the 95th Evac."
Memorial Biography of Marjorie Gertrude Morrow at the Iowa Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, Des Moines, Iowa
"Miss Morrow volunteered for duty in the Army Nurses Corps in 1942 and trained at Fort Francis E. Warren in Wyoming. In April 1943 she was sent overseas with the 95th Evacuation Hospital Unit. Nine days later this unit of 30 nurses, 30 officers and 120 enlisted men landed at Casablanca, North Africa, where they set up their first hospital. Later they moved to Brizerette, North Africa to await the invasion of Italy.
Aboard the Hospital Ship Newfoundland, they crossed the Mediterranean to Salerno, Italy. Unable to land because of air raids and heavy bombing, they were sent 30 miles out to sea, when a plane bombed the ship, sinking it. They manned life boats and eventually the survivors were rescued by the Hospital Ship St. Andrews and taken back to Brizerette, North Africa.
The unit was given new supplies and clothing and put on L.C.I.'s to cross again the rough Mediterranean to Paestion, italy. Three days later the unit moved to Naples where they boarded L.C.I's for the invasion of Italy.
Lieutenant Morrow's days at Anzio were filled with continuing air raids and hard work with many casualties, and only occasional times for rest in foxholes. On the morning of February 7, 1944, she and her companions received their first mail in a month."
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Entered the service from Iowa. Service ID: N-733475.
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