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February 27, 1943

February 27, 1943 No. 11 Casablanca, Morocco Dear Folksies,             There is nothing particularly new today except that Lois got all the mail in the family for today, receiving three from her mother and one from you, Mom. The latter was the one in which you tell all about meeting the nurse whom we knew […]

February 24, 1943

February 24, 1943Continuation of No. 10 Casablanca, Morocco Dear Folksies,        The hospital gets larger day by day, with medical patients being in the majority. For a week I worked on a surgical ward and was on call for anesthesia, but the medical service got swamped and consequently Paul Stratte and I were shifted over […]

February 23, 1943

February 23, 1943No. 10 Casablanca, Morocco Dear Folksies,      In the last couple of days I received several most welcome letters, and I feel more and more ashamed that I have not been nearly as faithful in writing as you have been.      There are plenty of olfactory impressions to be had around here, and […]

February 15, 1943

February 15, 1943 No. 9 Casablanca, Morocco Dear Folksies,               We are still in the same place and enlarging our hospital again, not because of any particular increase in patients, but to lighten the load on another hospital that is a bit crowded. As a consequence, I am going to be an M.D. again instead […]

February 10, 1943

February 10, 1943 No. 8 Casablanca, Morocco Dear Folksies,            Somehow, despite all my good intentions, the time between letters seems to slip by fast and furiously. Have kept pretty busy again the last week in much the same way as we were the first week. We’ve been throwing boxes around, getting on the ships, […]

February 1, 1943

February 1, 1943 Continuation of No. 7 Casablanca, Morocco Dear Folksies,        Last week I had as strange an experience as I ever want to have. Bill Reilly, Bill Drew and I went to visit the Communicable Disease Hospital for Arabs. The hospital is run by the French, their being one male and one female […]