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Patient receiving a long leg plaster cast, 21st General Hospital, Naples, Italy.

Typed note on back indicates date of 10-3-44, Naples, Italy. “View of the cast room at the 21st Gen Hospital, patient is having a long leg plaster cast put on.” Typed note attached: “Capt. Crouch and assistants applying a long leg plaster cast. Surgical Technicians are (left) Sgt. Jas. Gibbons & Curtis Kindgren. Nurse giving anesthesia – Verona Blesse – a ‘CCC’ who’s favorite expletive was ‘poor Mrs. Crouch!’” Surgeon identified as Capt. Crouch may be Russell J. Crider, see note for VC013199.

Russell J. Crider closing a gunshot wound over a fracture in the orthopedic surgical dressing room, 21st General Hospital, Naples, Italy.

Typed note on back indicates date of 10-3-44, Naples Italy. “View of the orthopedic surgical dressing room, at the 21st Gen. Hospital. The doctor is performing a closure of a gun-shot wound over a fracture.” Handwritten note on back of enlargement indicates Capt. Francis R. Crouch operating, Nurse Eleanor Brinkmeyer. However, a note dated January 2003 indicates surgeon operating is Russell J. Crider as confirmed by Crider’s son.

General Hospital 21 Photographs and Drawings

  • VC013
  • Collection
  • 1942-1945

This collection consists of 724 photographs, drawings, diagrams, posters, newspaper clippings, and sheet music, and other ephemera related to the 21st General Hospital. The photographs primarily depict staff and patients of the 21st General Hospital from when it was stationed overseas 1942-1945, as well as views of hospital buildings and grounds. Drawings and diagrams include plans for wiring and plumbing, architectural and ground plans, and some schematic drawings of hospital equipment. Other ephemera in the collection include hand-drawn posters advertising Officers' Club dances, newspaper clippings from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Pictures Section depicting operations at General Hospital 21, and cartoon watercolors depicting soldiers and Red Cross workers.

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