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Percy Jones General accepts first military patients

Percy Jones General accepts first military patients

URI: http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1000000585
Date: 1942-00-00

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The first wave of patients at Percy Jones General army hospital arrived Feb. 15, 1943. The Enquirer and News weekly feature, "News from the Home Front" noted in the Feb. 21 edition that about 175 casualties from the Pacific battlefronts arrived by train, and that visiting families were finding it difficult to secure hotel rooms. The hospital was formally dedicated Feb. 22, when 31 of the patients received Purple Heart medals. Percy Jones General treated more than 78,000 veterans for injuries suffered during World War II and the Korean Conflict.

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Description: The U.S. Army purchased the former Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1942 for $2.5 million and operated hospital until 1953. The building now houses the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center, named for three former senators who received treatment at the hospital: Philip Hart of Michigan, who had been wounded during the Normandy Landings at Utah Beach on D-Day, Bob Dole of Kansas, who was wounded in combat over Italy, and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who had been wounded while engaged in combat in Italy.
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Description: Fannie M. Jones, left, widow of Col. Percy Lancelot Jones, unveils the portrait of her late husband at the dedication of the Percy Jones General military hospital in Battle Creek. With Mrs. Jones are Maj.-Gen. James C Magee, surgeon general of the army, and Elizabeth J. Siegel, the couple's daughter. The Feb. 23, 1943, Enquirer and News called the unveiling the "high point" of the ceremony.
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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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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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Description: Col. Norman T. Kirk, hospital commander congratulates one of 31 recipients to receive Purple Hearts on Feb. 21, 1943, at Percy Jones General army hospital.
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