A 'cartographic journal' recorded by a medical officer in the 9th Infantry Division.
Sheets have been annotated by an (anonymous) medical officer who was assigned to the 9th Infantry Division of the United States Army. Across fifty-five separate entries between June 1944 and February 1945, he noted details about each stop in the European Theater, emphasizing the duration of stay, ai...
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| Online Access: | See: Annual report of medical activities of the Ninth Infantry Division, 1 January 1944 to 31 December 1944. |
| Summary: | Sheets have been annotated by an (anonymous) medical officer who was assigned to the 9th Infantry Division of the United States Army. Across fifty-five separate entries between June 1944 and February 1945, he noted details about each stop in the European Theater, emphasizing the duration of stay, aid station area, and types of sleeping quarters. The last category ranged from open fields and orchards to spring mattresses in lavish chateaus. Numbered red dots, likely applied later, pinpoint each location; connected by a long snaking route marked in black ink. |
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| Item Description: | Title devised by bookseller. Relief shown by spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Map series originally "copied from a French (Michelin) map" 1937-1939, first edition published by British War Office 1941-1942. Index to adjoining sheets. Method of folding maps. Military grid. Notations: [Sheet 54] 1. Slept in between parachutes in St. Mere Eglise. Went to 34th [Écoquenéauville] June 10-13 [1944] -- 2. Aid tent by itself in field. Dead Cows - Div Arty. 18 Shells [unintelligible] lot filled [Picauville] June 13-16 -- 3. Deep narrow fox hole. Saw Maj. Shirley go into Div. HQ [Reigneville-Bocage] June 16-17 -- 4. Aid Station in Div HQ area. Photographers near by who were obnoxious (Saint-Clair) June 17-18 -- 5. Aid Sta in corner of orchard high grass. Our planes dropped bombs 29 casualties in HQ DV. [Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou] June 18-20 -- 6. Aid sta near French house. Had them wash our clothes. Also they washed out our [unintelligible] & gasoline. They offered us apple cider & Francis & I got warm by the fire in house one day [Grosville] June 20 - 22 -- 7. Aid sta on path deep in gully. Gen. Eddy in wagon next to our tent [Benoîtville] June 22-25 -- 8. One week in small apple orchard. Slept good fox hole under bank. Big shells all around but not too near. French barn near by. Inspected area per order of Lt. Col. Westmoreland [Vasteville] June 25-July 2 -- 9. Rest area near Les Pieux. Move In Barn. Good area [Hameau Quesnel] July 2-9 -- 10. In field with lots of grass. Potato garden next to us. Baby in house had absess on jaw [La Planque] July 9-13 -- 11. Old Ford stripped next to aid sta. Corps. HQ buildings near by [Le Mesnil-Véneron] July 13-20 -- 12. One week in field. 83rd Div. on Rt 2 mile to the line. Ambulance got stuck going in shells all around [Le Hommet] July 20-28 -- 13. In soy bean field [Montreuil-sur-Lozon] July 28-30 -- 14. Rest Area 1 day. Gen [illegible] in nice house [Cametours] July 30 - Aug 1 -- 15. Orchard of 1st Div. Thru gate. Only a few hours [Le Guislain] Aug 1-2 --16. Aid Sta near house. Got a wagon ride for trip to fox hole. French school teacher came around [Maupertuis] Aug 2-3 -- [Sheet 59] 17. Near old well. Patterson Drunk. Warrior cleaned turkey & killed. Old French couple. Pressed shirt [La Colombe] Aug 3-5 --18. HQ in Front Yard. Shelled at 7:30 one A.M. 8 shells - Reeffuts killed. [Saint-Aubin-des-Bois] Aug 5-8 -- 19. At woods - stone quarry. Lots of noise [Le Gast] Aug 8-9 -- 20. Slept in barn - had to clean up area from 4th Div Inf Troops. German air over every night [Saint-Laurent-de-Cuves] Aug 9-13 -- 21. Good clean area 1 day rest slept in barn on concrete floor [Châtillon-sur-Colmont] Aug 13-14 -- [Sheet 60] 22. One night in field near General's Mess. Had depression in ditch. Put net in it at eve. Left in A.M. [Le Saule] Aug 14-15 -- 23. In clear area - several close cropped fields. Div. Hq. Building [illegible] road. Heather & wilderness around [Haudre] Aug 15-16 -- 24. Near a lot of French Houses. Blond twin girls 8 yrs old [Magny-le-Désert] Aug 16-17 -- 25.Near large chateau where Div Hq & Arty Hq located. We were near old clean barn which boys took over. Sort of a off area after Got pinched out here [Le Grais] Aug 17-21 -- 26. 3 story chateau in woods. Nice sloping field of big tall oak trees. Aid sta. at corner of woods. Rained quite a bit [Saint-Hilaire-le-Châtel] Aug 21-24 -- 27. Near a nice chateau and tennis court. Aid sta in Garage - Gen Craig's house truck right across from us [La Ferté-Vidame] Aug 24-25 -- 28. Aid Sta. SE corner of white chateau. Room in building. Slept on spring mattress [Guibeville] Aug 25 - 26 -- [Sheet 61]. 29. Large red brick trimmed limestone chateau. Mammoth, luxurious place, extensive well kept grounds. Money from wine manufacturing (Dubonet) [Saint-Sauveur-sur-Ecole] Aug 26 -- 30. Thick Wood - 3 German prisoners 1 wounded: posterier of left thigh [Guignes-Rabutin] Aug 27 -- 31. Nice clean apple orchard. Sloping ground to creek. Air raid on Paris & Melun [Saint-Augustin] Aug 28 -- [Sheet 56] 32. Old large stone chateau. Mademoiselle Boucher (age 45) Aid station near house in hollow at ravine [Marigny-en-Orxois] Aug 29 -- 33. Aid Station in upstairs room over switch board. Large chateau next door. Officer's mess in chateau. Had electric light in a dark room with a wash basin [Augy] Aug 30 -- 34. In field by shallow ditch under apple tree. Near road & town [Hannogne-Saint-Rémy] Aug 31 -- [Sheet 53] 35. In town of Plomion 14 men massacred by Germans for 1 SS trooper they killed. 24 hours before HQ arrived. Layed out in building - took pictures. Town was to have been burned. Many houses burned. HQ: Priest's house next to church [Plomion] Sept 1-2 -- 36. In room of a house. Red brick. Rooms with pump at sink. 2 ladies & white cat. HQ in other rooms (Fourmies) Sept 3 -- 37. In open field. Off-road for supper (Belgium) [Cerfontaine] Sept 3 -- 38. In woods of tall oak trees. Retraced for 1 1/2 miles to get into wood from open terrain [Cerfontaine] Sept 3 -- 39. In gray stone castle with towers. Aid sta in room in out buildings. Germans were here a day ago. Massive place. Old rich thin man in Knickers. Old thin woman & daughter [Morville] Sept 4-7 -- 40. Chateau with lake in front. Boys caught fish in it (trout) [illegible] Had CP: Front room. yellow & gold room where they gave us coffee. (Brief stop) [Emptinne] Sept 8 -- 41. Under 3 light gray pine trees near chateau (over night) (Pailhe) Sept 8 -- [Sheet 3] 42. In Norwegian's Consul's place just east of resort village of Eseneau. Aid station in milk separation room [Esneux] Sept 9-10 -- 43. (Went to Paris in AM with Clint Adams) Aid Station set up in Girls' school. Nice place. 4 rooms for aid station [Pepinster] Sept 11-12 -- 44. Aid stat in tent on an open outdoor veranda overlooking town of Eupen. Tall pine trees about. (I rejoined as they were pulling out) [Eupen] Sept 13 -- 45. 1st town liberated in Germany. Just east of Rotgen Germany - next to a farm house (Polish wife) (Roetgen) Sept 14-16 -- 46. Went back into town & located Hotel & Building to get out of rainy weather. Also Shells [Roetgen] Sept 17-Oct 4 -- 47. Moved to Zweifall. Had a nice stone house 3 stories. Front room for aid sta - kitchen for Dental Room. Bedroom off kitchen with a nice big Queen Anne double bed [Zweifall] Oct 4-26 -- 48. Moved to Camp Elsenborn. Permanent wooden some brick buildings. Aid station: center room. Boys in one end room. Medical officers in other end room (Capt. Muccillo, Myself, Lt. Sternlicht & Capt. Francis) [Elsenborn] Oct 27-Nov 4 -- 49. Moved to Butgenbach. In house with barn full of cows attached. Francis & I - good room upstairs. Aid sta & Dentist downstairs. 3 chaplains in here, also. Defensive positions [Butgenbach] Nov 5-17 -- 50. Moved back to Camp Elsenborn. Aid sta in barracks building. Captain Francis & I living in hotel. I have a small single room. 60th, 34th, & 26th in position to North [Elsenborn] Nov 18-Dec 5 -- 51. Eschweiler. South east part of town. Aid sta in a battered up house. Captain Francis & I fixed up a nice room in a cellar [Eschweiler] Dec 6-18 -- 52. Soubrodt. In kitchen & cellar of Belgian farmhouse. 170 mm shell made a direct ... [Sourbrodt] Dec 19-Jan 26 -- 53. Mutzenich. House in front of camoflage nets along highway. Could see into enemy lines [Mutzenich] Jan 27-Feb 3 -- 54. Hofen in bombed out school building across street from bombed out Church [Hofen] Feb 4 -- 55. In farm house on hill close 5 Nazi Graves. in Scenic Valley. 2 miles South of Einruhr [Einruhr] Feb. 5 [1945]. |
| Physical Description: | 1 map on 8 sheets : manuscript, color ; sheets 70 x 113 cm |