| Title: |
Joseph Milton Hand
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| Local code: |
AFC/2001/001/6063
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
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| Collection: |
Veterans History Project
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| Description: |
For soldiers like Joseph Hand, working in medicine meant building and equipping station hospitals, sometimes from scratch. A station hospital was where a wounded soldier might recover enough to return to the front or move on to a general hospital for further care. Hand’s first hospital, a 500-bed facility in North Africa, took three months to erect and outfit. As American forces moved into Sicily and then up the boot of Italy, Hand kept building hospitals—or taking over existing buildings like an agriculture school in Naples. He joined the reserves after World War II and got called up for the Korean War. In Korea he faced a different kind of challenge: dishonest civilians stealing from the hospital he was managing.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Video: |
[Video available]
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| Speaker: |
Hand, Joseph Milton, 1921-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
31-Jan-1921
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Atlanta, GA; Georgia; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Willie, Michael Lloyd
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Army
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| Historical events discussed: |
Korean Conflict, 1950-1953; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Africa; Asia; Europe; Italy; Korea; North Africa; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Africa; Asia; Europe; Italy; Korea; Korean Conflict, 1950-1953; Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American; Korean War, 1950-1953--Veterans; North Africa; North America; Oral history; U.S. Army; United States; United States--Armed Forces; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0032464-35545
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