Photograph of a United States Army nurse
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Virginia Longest
The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Virginia Longest in 1992 Created by unknown photographer, 1945, Munich, Germany.
Scope and Content
The photograph depicts Virginia Longest, a nurse in General Patton's 3rd Army, standing in front of a sign reading, "58th Fld. Hospital; 2nd Platoon; A.E.H.U." Caption on back reads, "The 58th Field Hospital was attached to General Patton's 3rd Army - This scene is at the Airfield-Munich-Germany - where our hospital was set up in tents. We evacuated our patients (G.I.'s) on C-47 Airplanes - Virginia B. Longest standing at the 58th sign."
People
- Longest, Virginia.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Field Hospitals
- United States. Army. Army, 3rd
Subjects
- Nurses--Germany--Munich.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
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