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Vintage Postcard 1942 Tho England Hospital Chalfonte Hotel Atlantic City NJ
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SchoolHouseStudio (492)
Card conditions are very subjective, review images carefully. About This Card: In 1942, the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel was taken over by the U.S. Army to be used as a hospital for convalescents. The new General ... Read More
Card conditions are very subjective, review images carefully.
About This Card:
In 1942, the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel was taken over by the U.S. Army to be used as a hospital for convalescents. The new General Hospital took on the gigantic task of handling severely wounded patients from overseas battlefields including: North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Falaise, Gab, Mons, and Aachen.
For the first five months, everything at the hospital seemed to be going well. The number of patients being reconditioned and/or returned either to regular duty or to civilian life exceeded five thousand. In March 1944, 254 casualties were the first to come directly from the battlefield in Italy to Thomas England General Hospital, followed in July by casualties from the Normandy invasion (Women’s Army Corps Museum, 7). Then a tremendous setback occurred on September 14, 1944. A hurricane hit the South Jersey coast, the worst in Atlantic City’s history to that time. The Hospital was closed for a month until the hospital’s power supply was steady, its water potable and its surgical units were in sufficient operating condition.
By January 1946, the need for the hospital was drawing to an end. It was decided to close the hospital on June 30, 1946. The decline of military activity in Atlantic City precipitated the reconversion of hospital buildings to their civilian owners and returned them to their status as first-class hotels.
Please review the photographs carefully to determine card conditions. Card conditions are very subjective.
Thank you,
School House 64
About This Card:
In 1942, the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel was taken over by the U.S. Army to be used as a hospital for convalescents. The new General Hospital took on the gigantic task of handling severely wounded patients from overseas battlefields including: North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Falaise, Gab, Mons, and Aachen.
For the first five months, everything at the hospital seemed to be going well. The number of patients being reconditioned and/or returned either to regular duty or to civilian life exceeded five thousand. In March 1944, 254 casualties were the first to come directly from the battlefield in Italy to Thomas England General Hospital, followed in July by casualties from the Normandy invasion (Women’s Army Corps Museum, 7). Then a tremendous setback occurred on September 14, 1944. A hurricane hit the South Jersey coast, the worst in Atlantic City’s history to that time. The Hospital was closed for a month until the hospital’s power supply was steady, its water potable and its surgical units were in sufficient operating condition.
By January 1946, the need for the hospital was drawing to an end. It was decided to close the hospital on June 30, 1946. The decline of military activity in Atlantic City precipitated the reconversion of hospital buildings to their civilian owners and returned them to their status as first-class hotels.
Please review the photographs carefully to determine card conditions. Card conditions are very subjective.
Thank you,
School House 64
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