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A medical officer with the U.S. Army's 45th Evacuation Hospital poses before the entrance of a fortified bunker after the Invasion of Normandy.

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    A medical officer with the U.S. Army's 45th Evacuation Hospital poses before the entrance of a fortified bunker after the Invasion of Normandy.
    A medical officer with the U.S. Army's 45th Evacuation Hospital poses before the entrance of a fortified bunker after the Invasion of Normandy.

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    Caption
    A medical officer with the U.S. Army's 45th Evacuation Hospital poses before the entrance of a fortified bunker after the Invasion of Normandy.
    Date
    1944 June 16 - 1944 July 14
    Locale
    [Normandy] France?
    Variant Locale
    Normandie
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Stephen Jacobs
    Event History
    The 45th Evacuation Hospital arrived at Buchenwald after liberation of the camp and was tasked with providing a range of care to newly liberated inmates. Their duties were soon directed to the treatment and evacuation of inmates suffering from tuberculosis. With the assistance of several prisoners who had been camp physicians, the 45th managed to prevent further spread of the disease and to vastly improve the quality of treatment that individuals received.

    See https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005198.
    See Also "Buchenwald Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Volume 1 Part A.

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Stephen Jacobs

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    Biography
    Dr. William Garrison Birch, served with the 45th Evacuation Hospital. as a U.S. Army medical officer.
    Record last modified:
    2016-10-11 00:00:00
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