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37th Field Hospital

The 37th Field Hospital trained at Camp Ellis from May, 1943 until February 1944. Left for California and the South Pacific.(From the Story of Camp Ellis pg. 91)

 

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Gertrude Esteros was born in 1914 in Minnesota. In 1941 she joined the American Red Cross and was assigned to the 37th Field Hospital unit. In late 1942, she was sent to the South Pacific and had duty stations in New Guinea and in the Philippines. Following V-J Day Gertrude returned to the US and resigned from the Red Cross. She then took a teaching position at a Minnesota University and remained on faculty until retiring in 1980.

Her oral history is here.

This photograph, taken June 15, 1945, shows a soldier who was wounded fighting in the hill positions of Negros, Philippine Islands. An ambulance of the 37th Field Hospital brought him to the waiting Douglas C-47 Skytrain.

Original here: National Museum of the Air Force