Good Friends
Some of my buddies. The man lying down was M/Sgt.Rudy Tupala,
who was Sgt .Major in headquarters; he was a great
organizer in charge of about 15 men in the personnel
department.
The second man to his left was Tech/Sgt. Charles
Ballard who was in charge of the Registrar's office
under 1st/Lt Needles where I worked as a clerk-typist.
Mondragone
This photo was
taken at the Mediterranean beach known as
Mondragone; our U.S. military cleared the area
of many land mines and built the above beach house
where we could change clothes and have soft drinks
at a bar. Note the sign on the "smoke stack"
S.S. MONDRAGONE, sort of a make believe
ocean ship. Our hospital unit had a bus
schedule for us to make this trip from Caserta,
a distance of about 25 miles.
Mary Gallagher
at Caserta, The drums were to prevent vehicles
entering the hospital area.
Helen Bremmer and Margaret McCormack
Air Raid Shelters
The above two pictures show
the air raid shelters which were in use before we
arrived. When we got here the entire complex
had been vandalized and stripped from top to bottom.
All windows and doors had been taken away and these
shelters were filled with all kinds of waste material.
Our maintenance people, with the help of an engineer
unit closed down these shelters and destroyed those
concrete entranceways.
Our janitor, an elderly Italian
gentleman, standing in front of our headquarters;
he let us know that he was wearing the suit he bought
in New York city before the war.
Dr. William Carey, Bud Needles and Sgt. Ballard
