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Joseph Hand, 2003.

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

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"Our doctors were operating 36 hours at a time." (Video Interview, Part 2, 13:05)

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

  • 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
  • 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

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Rights & Access

Using VHP Material in Publication or Exhibition

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Citing VHP Materials

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Materials as a whole:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Manuscript material:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Memoirs (MS02), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Transcript (MS04), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Correspondence (MS01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Recording:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Audio recording (SR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Video recording (MV01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Photograph:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Photographs (PH01), photographer unknown, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Photographs (PH03-PH14), Ralph Williams photographer, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Computer file:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Computer file (CF01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Artifact:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/[VHP collection]), Artifact (AR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Willie, Michael Lloyd, Wrcb-Tv Channel 3, Sarah Bowen, and Joseph Milton Hand. Joseph Milton Hand Collection. 1942. Personal Narrative. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.06063/.

APA citation style:

Willie, M. L., Wrcb-Tv Channel 3, Bowen, S. & Hand, J. M. (1942) Joseph Milton Hand Collection. [Personal Narrative] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.06063/.

MLA citation style:

Willie, Michael Lloyd, et al. Joseph Milton Hand Collection. 1942. Personal Narrative. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.06063/>.