279th Station Hospital USAMEDD: 2015

Monday, 7 December 2015

NOOKIE JEEP

Flaviano Martinez in a Jeep....Camp Bowie, Texas.

Camp Bowie Training

Pre UK training for 279th personnel at Camp Bowie, Texas.
On the fence Loudermilk, Moreno & Flaviano Martinez. Unknown guys at rear and on the right.

Sunday, 4 October 2015

Carl MacDaniel checks on these pages regularly. Not only is he responsible for the majority of the photos on this site, he is still very active in taking pictures in his local area in Pennsylvania and has his own FLICKR site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/macswitch

Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Up for a fight and how to get away fast !!

A couple of new ones. The first one is of Tate on the left..............Loudermilk on the right, having a bit of a spar. This will be at Camp Bowie, Texas where the unit trained before shipping out to the UK.

The second photo is Tec/4 Anthony J. O'Connor 32139281 standing next to the parked Jeeps. Ave not yet identified the Sergeant sitting on the Harley-Davidson WLA motorbike.

Times Gone By

When I moved back to Abergavenny in 2001 I realised that I had visited many battlefields in Europe over the years but had never once thought about the rich history of World War Two events that may have ocurred on my own doorstep. Over the past few years I have been slowly piecing together the evidence of the units, personnel and stories that make this story, and have made aquaintance with many interesting people including some of the actual veterans and civilians who were involved in those interesting times.

It is estimated that at one point there were around 100,000 military personell stationed in the Usk valley around the Abergavenny area.

Two particular US veterans, Carl McDaniel and Robert P Rivers, have given me a wealth of information, stories and photos on their unit, The 279th Station Hospital, so I will attempt here to chronicle some of the information I have in pictorial format.

Not much of the Hospital now remains, but as its only just down the road from me, what is left, holds a fascination for me and I think the story of it is worth telling.

I will try and upload pictures in a chronological order so this site is best viewed by starting from the bottom (very first thread in the archive).

Richard P

279th Station Hospital USAMEDD