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Wisconsin Telephone Company
106 East Spring Street New London, Wisconsin 54961
J. P. Obertin
Manager
Dr. Charles Watkins
LSU School of Medicine
New Orleans, La.
Dear Doctor Watkins,
Telephone: 414 982-5501
June 2, 1971
Hooray- At long last, I notice in the Legion Magazine of June 1971,
that something is finally being done about the history of the Mighty
64th G~eral Hospital, one of the great unsung outfits of WW II! As
lowly medics, we of the 64th did not make the headlines but we did
have our moments and it has long been one of my great regrets that no
formal history was kept while festivities were in progress. I wish
~ you the best of success in your research and offer whatever my feeble
memory can recall of those sometimes pathetic, sometimes ridiculous,
but always memorable days in the 64th General. A few of us here in
the mid-west get together on all too infrequent occasions and rehash
those good old days and it never fa i ls to surpri• e our wives how the
comical and heroic aspects of our reminiscences grow better with each
telling! So let it be with the 64th!
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I recall with great respect and affection the names of some of the
64th's officers from the New Orleans area, whom you may have already
contacted in this matter. To use the military rank that comes to
mind, Colonel Blitz, Chief of Medical Section, Colonel Miangolarra,
Chief of Surgical Section, Lt. Colonel @aston, Dentistry, Major Haik,
a brilliant ophthalmologist, Major Willoughby, neurosurgeon, Captain
Eigenbrod, ps)chiatrist and part time left fielder who on one occasion
played a high fly ball of mine into a cheap home rum, Captain DuPuy,
Captain deMahy and others whose names escape me at the moment. Lt.
Tassin, in charge of Medical Supply, was from that area and was a drug
salesman, I believe, prior to the war. Lt. Batchelder was from the
South - was our unit Fire Chief and had several other prestige responsibilities.
Manp of the nurses came from Hotel Dieu, as I recall.
Major's Stroud's name pops into my mind, one of the surgical staff of
MD 1s - not one of the nurses.
was assigned to the 64th at Fort Jackson, ~o. Car., about Oct. 1, 1942,
v along with four other transfers from Camp Grant, Ill., Army Medical
Dept. Training Center, after completion of basic training. We joined
the growing 64th in "Tent City", a not so permanent part of Ft. Jackson.
6ur immediate neighbors were the famous (?) 6th Cavalry- a regular army
horse outfit that was in the process of being converted to light tanks.
Object Description
| Title | Obertin Letter to Dr. Watkins - June 2, 1971 |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army. General Hospital, 64th Watkins, Charles, Dr. |
| Description | 6 page letter from Joe Obertin (army medic) to Dr. Watkins in response to Watkins' letter to the editor in American Legion Magazine. Fort Jackson, aboard ship |
| Notes | Creator: Obertin, Joe |
| Date | 1971-06-02 |
| Type | |
| Format | |
| Identifier | See "reference url" on the navigation bar. |
| Source | John P Isché Library - LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans ~ www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library |
| Contact Information | Send inquiries to digitalarchives@lsuhsc.edu |
| Language | En. |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_p15140coll50.php?CISOROOT=/p15140coll50 |
| Coverage-Spatial | South Carolina--Fort Jackson; Tunisia--Bizerte |
| Coverage-Temporal | 1943-1944 |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by LSU Health New Orleans. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright laws. |
| Object File Name | ww00749.pdf |
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