9th Field Hospital Plaques
Details:
Inside the school. The plaques are affixed on the left and right sides, on the lower part of the Athénée Till Lorrain monument wall.
Two rectangular marble plaques with the same layout, inscribed with the list of names in incised and gold lettering. A depiction of the US flag is engraved and painted on the top center. George Willets, whose name is inscribed on the plaque, has his surname misspelled to Willers.
On 27 December 1944, the 9th Field Hospital had set up in a school building nearer the center of town, about one mile from the 77th Evacuation Hospital. That day, a German jet bomber came over and dropped a bomb that hit directly on the 9th Field Hospital. Fortunately, the majority of the patients had been evacuated, but 14 people were killed, most of them patients, and nearly 50 were injured. Both the dead and the wounded were rushed to the 77th Evacuation Hospital. A second bomb struck the town hitting one of the ambulances that were evacuating some patients from the 77th to the railroad. One of the patients was killed instantly, another severely wounded (he died soon afterward), but the driver and orderly remained untouched.
Source of info: www.med-dept.com
Monument Text:
Plaque on the left-hand side:
KONDRAK PATRICK
ELLINGTON ALBERT
FANUCCHI JOHN
FETHERLIN VIRGIL
FRASER ALEXANDER
FREEMAN HAROLD
Plaque on the right-hand side:
MANN FOLEY
HARPER GILBERT
O'MARA JOHN
THOMAS MALCOLM
WILLERS GEORGE
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
9th Field Hospital
United States Army
Wars:
WWII
Battles:
Battle of the Bulge
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