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six new barracks built near the Base Dispensary, typical barracks, two beds
beside each other, two lockers dividing the two beds, about twenty four guys
on each side with the latrine at one end and a lounge at the other. Now Dad
was learning Spanish from the guy bunked next to him, and he made new
friends. James Morrow, Jack Herring and Claus Hauboldt were working in the
Dispensary with Dad and another character, Andy Petock, was driving
ambulance. Andy was the camp scrounge. He bought and sold everything; if you
needed it, he could get it. The Black Market King, boy from Brooklyn and
Dead End Kid. There were many more personnel now at the base.
There were
four Dispensaries. One was near the barracks. One was in the Headquarters
Compound, used mainly by the Officers, open only in the morning for sick
call. One was in the AVG (American Volunteer Group) Compound. And one was
near the Airfield, the Base Dispensary. This is where the 803rd
Medical Squad was situated. Dad remembers it was with Doctor John Quinlan.
He remembers two of the nurses from the Headquarters Dispensary were named
Lt. Randy Rast and Lt. Addie Newland.
The Base had grown
considerably from when they had first arrived. He didn’t get to town much
anymore. He was working seven days a week. They had use of a Jeep during the
day that Dr. Quinlan took home nights. There was a new Mess Hall and a new
Church for all faiths, kind of an open air building with a roof over it. It
was about this time he said he saw a Japanese prisoner who was there to be
interrogated and all Dad could’ve done, he said, was thrown a typewriter at
him since he never got another gun.
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