Operation Saving Lives

Northwestern as the 12th General Hospital during World War II

Introduction

At left: Col. Michael L. Mason, Ain el-Turck, 1943. Top right: Maj. James A. Conner (center), Fort Benjamin Harrison. Bottom right: Officers' mess hall, Ain el-Turck, 1943. Via Galter Special Collections.

X-ray department, Ain el-Turck, 1943.

Unloading an ambulance in front of x-ray department, Ain el-Turck, 1943.

Brace shop, Rome, 1944.

Recruitment, Staffing, and Training

Nurses marching, Fort Custer, 1942.

Making sidewalks, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 1942.

Shelter-tent pitching drill, Fort Custer, 1942.

At left: Ernest Bloomenthal recruitment letter, 1942.

In the Operating Room

Central corridor with operating rooms on left and right, Rome 1944.

Inserting a Steinman pin through a tibial tuberosity to provide traction, Rome, 1944.

Performing a leg operation, Rome, 1944.

Coffee klatch outside an operating room, Rome, 1944.

On the Wards

Orthopedic ward, Livorno, 1945.

Nurses in central ward supply work room, Rome, 1944.

General medicine ward, Ain-el-Turck, 1943.

Courtyard of the Caserma Vittorio Emmanuele venereal center, Naples, 1944.

Off Duty

At bat, Fort Custer, 1942.

GIs visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa, c. 1944.

Italian phrase book for Allied troops, published 1943.

At left: Invitation for a dance thrown by the 12th General Hospital in Rome, 1944.

Army Exchange Service ration card.

Trip to the Villa Cimbrone, Ravello, 1944.

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