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67th
General Hospital, Somerset
97th General Services and 166th AAA Regiments
747th Tank Batallion
12th Minesweeping Flotilla
162nd Fortress Infantry (France)
19th AAA Division (Camp Tophat)
67th
General Hospital, Somerset
Lisa
is an American living in Somerset, England. When she was in
the local hospital giving birth to her daughter almost 7 years
ago, she became fascinated with the hospital itself and started
asking questions.
She
learned that it was built by the Americans during WWII and
that it was the 67th General Hospital, staffed by a group
from Maine. The original building is still standing and is
being used to this day. The hospital is now called Musgrove
Park Hospital.
Lisa
would be grateful for any information at all as she has decided
to write a book about the origins of this hospital.
If
you have any information, please contact Lisa
97th
General Services Regiment (US Army Corp of Engineers) and
166th AAA Battalion (US Army).
Paul,
from Arizona, has been trying, with limited success, to find
information on his father's and an uncle's WWII outfits.
His
father, Dan Mardian, was in the 97th General Services Regiment
(US Army Corp of Engineers) and his uncle, Jim Evkhanian,
was in the 166th AAA Battalion (US Army).
They
were both from Pasadena, CA and both served in the Pacific
Theatre from 1943-45 in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands.
Paul
has had several "lines in the water" over the past
year but with little or no success. His father and uncle are
still living and would love to get information on the Regiments
or hear from old commrades.
If
you can help with any information, please contact Paul
747th
Tank Batallion
George
Goldstein was a member of the 747th Tank Batallion and was
on the Omaha Beach during the invasion. He also was in battle
at St Lo and the Battle of the Bulge. He would like to find
other members of the batallion.
If
you can help with any information or were in the batallion
yourself, please contact George
12th
Minesweeping Flotilla
Did you serve in this regiment between 1944 and 1946? If so,
please contact Thelma
as she is trying to help a neighbour, Kenneth Barrett, find
some old comrades.
162nd
Fortress Infantry Regiment (France)
B. Larquetou is looking for their father who was in the 162nd
Fortress Infantry (France). It seems that he was captured
on 20th June 1940 at Laneuveville, just before Nancy. He was
imprisoned to start with in a front stalag, then taken towards
the East possibly to Stalag IIIC.
Does
anyone know if the 162nd were actually imprisoned in this
Stalag?
Please
contact Larquetou
if you have any information.
19th
AAA Division (556 and 559 AAA Division) - Camp Tophat
Jean Dillen is working on a book about the American repatriation
camp Tophat in Antwerp/Belgium 1945-46. He is trying to locate
ex-service men for whom Antwerp was their last foothold in
Europe when the war ended. Miss Sherilyn Nantz is also kindly
helping him with the research.
The camp was set up by the 19th AAA Division with the 556
and 559 AAA Divisions in the leading role. They had a 'tophat'
as their unit symbol which was painted on their vehicles and
later the name Tophat became the name of the camp. More than
270,000 men were processed here on their trip home.
The American forces set up a series of camps to bring their
troops home after the end of hostilities. Mostly in France
and they were named 'Cigarette Camps' as each had the name
of a cigarette brand (Camp Lucky Strike, Camp Pall Mall, Camp
Chesterfield, etc). Out of line, Tophat was named after the
unit which build it, but a Belgian cigarette company manufactured
'Tophat cigarettes' so it became unintentionally a cigarette
camp after all.
The former site of Camp Tophat is still there. When it was
evacuated in April 1946, a park was created at the site. A
brook and pumping station are called Tophat so the name will
live for generations to come.
Jean does the lay-out for the book for a set of 3 friends/authors.
They did a lot of digging at the site and found amazing things
from camp life. As the ex-service men were allowed only one
souvenir gun to take home, and many had an arsenal with them,
a lot started digging to get rid of these things. The collection
of the trio now includes Schmeisser guns, Colt, bajonetts
and several cases of material beyond imagination. Even 1941
marked Coca Cola bottles are found and filled again courtesy
the local Coca Cola Company.
The book is basically a photobook with some text. The authors
and Jean are looking for any Tophat related material. They
are lacking anything of the Tophat unit which gave its name
to the camp.
Please
contact Jean
if you have any information on the AAA Divisions or the camp
itself.
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