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Scenes from Percy Jones, 1943

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dc.date.accessioned 2019-08-27T15:11:47Z
dc.date.available 2019-08-27T15:11:47Z
dc.date.issued 1943-00-00
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1000000593
dc.description Col. Norman T. Kirk opened the Percy Jones General Hospital on Jan. 15, 1943. With a brief flag raising documented in that day's Enquirer and News, the commanding officer vowed to make it the "best army hospital in the country." en_US
dc.format.medium 4x5 BW negative
dc.subject hospitals sanitarium federal center WWII military en_US
dc.title Scenes from Percy Jones, 1943 en_US
dc.type Image en_US
dc.description.envelope PERCY JONES GENERAL HOSPITAL
dc.description.photographer Enquirer and News
dc.description.taxonomy Health|Healthcare Industry|Hospitals|Percy Jones Army Hospital en_US


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Description: Col. Norman T. Kirk decorates war-wounded patients during a ceremony at Percy Jones General in 1943.
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Description: Col. Norman T. Kirk, left, confers with Col. Joseph E. Bastion, who would succeed Kirk as commander. Bastion saw the hospital reach a peak bed capacity of 2,000 and the arrival of the hospital's 40,000th patient in October 1945.
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Description: The first wounded bound for Percy Jones General were met by ambulances at railroad docks.
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Description: Amputee patients at Percy Jones General take dancing lessons to help them regain their poise and sense of balance. Civil service employees at the hospital volunteer as partners for the veterans.
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Description: Amputee patients at Percy Jones General take dancing lessons to help them regain their poise and sense of balance. Civil service employees at the hospital volunteer as partners for the veterans.
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Description: Amputee patients at Percy Jones General take dancing lessons to help them regain their poise and sense of balance. Civil service employees at the hospital volunteer as partners for the veterans.
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Description: Amputee patients at Percy Jones General take dancing lessons to help them regain their poise and sense of balance. Civil service employees at the hospital volunteer as partners for the veterans. The couples are left to right, Mrs. H.L. Holton Jr. and Sgt. Richard E. Daugherty of Rouge River, Ore., Margaret Cleary and Cpl.john H. Weiss of South Bend, Ind., and Betty Bundy with Sgt. Henry W. Klute of Three Oaks. The photo was published in the Aug. 15, 1943, edition of the Battle Creek Enquirer and News.
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Description: Miss Ann D. Kirk, who was 23 when this photo was published in the Enquirer and News on Feb. 21, 1943, plays the $25,000, four-manual organ that W.K. Kellogg donated to Percy Jones General. Kirk's father, Co. Norman T. Kirk, was the hospital commander.
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Description: The chapel of Percy Jones General hospital was on the front mezzanine corridor of building No. 1, formerly the main building of the Sanitarium. The windows to the left look out on the columns at the front of the building. At the rear of the chapel is the pipe organ given to the hospital by W.K. Kellogg.
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Description: Meat for personnel and patients at Percy Jones General hospital was kept in a huge cold locker in the basement of the main building.
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Description: Col. Norman T. Kirk, hospital commander pins a Purple Heart medal on one of 31 recipients to receive the honor Feb. 21, 1943, at Percy Jones General army hospital.
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