Personal Narrative Film, Video Manuscript/Mixed Material Photo, Print, Drawing Joseph Milton Hand Collection
Veterans History Project Service Summary:
- War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945; Korean War, 1950-1953
- Branch of Service: Army
- Unit of Service: Fitzsimons General Hospital; 81st Station Hospital; Army Reserve; Martin Army Hospital; 24th Evacuation Hospital; 6th Army Medical Depot; 829th Station Hospital
- Location of Service: Fort McPherson, Georgia; Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming; Camp Barkeley, Texas; Aurora, Colorado; New Orleans, Louisiana; North Africa; Italy; United States; Fort Benning, Georgia; San Antonio, Texas; Chuncheon, Korea
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant; Lieutenant Colonel
- Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/6063
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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About this Item
Title
- Joseph Milton Hand Collection
Names
- Willie, Michael Lloyd
- WRCB-TV Channel 3
- Bowen, Sarah
- Hand, Joseph Milton
Home State
- Tennessee
Headings
- - Hand, Joseph Milton
- - World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal Narratives
- - United States. Army.
- - Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Personal Narratives
- - United States. Army.
Repository
- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Gender
- Male
Race
- White
Status
- veteran
Service History
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World War, 1939-1945
- Branch of Service: Army
- Unit of Service: Fitzsimons General Hospital; 81st Station Hospital
- Location of Service: Fort McPherson, Georgia; Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming; Camp Barkeley, Texas; Aurora, Colorado; New Orleans, Louisiana; North Africa; Italy; United States
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Dates of Service: 1942-1945
- Entrance into Service: Drafted
- Military Status: veteran
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Korean War, 1950-1953
- Branch of Service: Army
- Unit of Service: Army Reserve; Martin Army Hospital; 24th Evacuation Hospital; 6th Army Medical Depot; 829th Station Hospital
- Location of Service: Fort Benning, Georgia; San Antonio, Texas; Chuncheon, Korea
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Dates of Service: 1951-1981
- Entrance into Service: Commissioned
- Military Status: veteran
Materials
- Video: Betacam SP [3 items] -- Oral history interview (collected 2003-01-29)
- Manuscript: Transcript [1 item] -- Typewritten document (collected 2012)
Collection Number
- AFC/2001/001/6063
Cite as
- Joseph Milton Hand Collection (AFC/2001/001/6063), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Online Format
- image
- online text
- video
Additional Metadata Formats
Part of
Wars & Conflicts
Service Branch
Location of Service
- Aurora, Colorado
- Camp Barkeley, Texas
- Chuncheon, Korea
- Fort Benning, Georgia
- Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming
- Fort McPherson, Georgia
- Italy
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- North Africa
- San Antonio, Texas
- United States
Service Unit
- 24th Evacuation Hospital
- 6th Army Medical Depot
- 81st Station Hospital
- 829th Station Hospital
- Army Reserve
- Fitzsimons General Hospital
- Martin Army Hospital