My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Making Surgical Dressings for the Wounded in Sycamore
From the January 9, 2019, MidWeek "Looking Back."
1944, 75 Years Ago.
"Now that the holiday season is a matter of history, people of Sycamore are asked to turn their thoughts to the more serious and necessary work of providing surgical dressings for the use of wounded service men in hospitals of this and other countries.
"Friday of each week is devoted to the making of dressings and the work room of the Red Cross in the basement of the library are open on Friday at 9 o'clock in the morning to 9 o'clock in the evening."
--GreGen
Labels:
1944,
Home Front,
Looking Back,
medicine,
Red Cross,
surgery
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