Sgt. Fred Weber who was in charge of men working on hospital wards.  He is sitting on the balcony of our hotel room;  note the sign behind him.  He was a good friend and came from Sheboygen, Wisconsin, having worked for the Kohler Plumbing Manufacturing Company. He and I could speak German and when we wanted to discuss matters confidential to us, this came in handy.  He was very talented playing the trumpet; he had it shipped from home and would play "Good Nights Ladies" at 10 o'clock bedtime. Fred died several years ago.

Local French residents who we hired to work in our offices.  They were a great help and relieved some of our soldiers from routine office work. Note, we had snow several inches deep; this on the roof of our hospital building.

 Snow on the roof of our hospital building and Cpl. Lowell Sparks, who worked in Headquarters.  The picture on the right is of Sparks somewhere on the hospital grounds.

Bates Motel (Remember the film "Psycho"?)
We had to fold  the mosquito nets on our beds. We hated to use them in hot weather because they kept air from moving over the beds.

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   An old man we used to see every morning on our way to work.  Sometimes that wagon was "loaded to the hilt"; you could say way overloaded.

  Arabs all piled on one wagon. Note the turbans and Fez as headgear.

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