The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
Horrors.
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and illnesses are Negro soldiers
from Detroit. Chicago, and many
points throughout the United States.
Pfc. Walter Shannon, 1881 Russell
street. Detroit, veteran OF the
Sicilisn campaign and holder OF the
Purple Heart. sent greetings TO all
OF his friends in Detroit and ex-
pressed the hope that he might be
home soon. Il was struck in the
forehead by hand grenade fuse"
Shannon said lust as our outfit
was pulling back from its initial
drive at the opening OF the Sicilian
campaign Shannon was overseas
II months. y months in Africa and
five N England. Pfc Shannon was
with an Ordnance Unit overseas.
S-Sst Gerald Reed who is from
Chicago and spent seven months in
North Africa, was the guide for the
Chronicle party during It's stay al
the hospital Sgt. Reed. recent
visitor 10 Detroit as guest OF the
Current Topic Study Club, was
wounded in North Africa by the
explosion Of land mine in Tunisia.
The sergeant was with an engineer
unit which was engaged in locating
land mines at the time OF his in
jury 1T must have been one that
somebody missed" Sgt Reed said.
AS the party was leaving the ward
where Pvt. Shannon was Sgt Reed
told the story Of the patient who had
uttered an amputation and being
refused permission to go home on
Easter, borrowed an artificial leg
and went over the hill. He was
found at the station" the sergeant
SAID with an artificial leg under
his arm -
Pvt Willie Scott, 986 Melbourne
street, Detroit. had a strange story
to tell in that horse fell on him
when his unit was preparing 10 20
overseas. MY leg was broken in two
places above knee @Seott-said.
Now | have 10 wear a steel brace"
Fighting For Same Things"
AS arrangement were being made
TO take one of the many pictures
taken on this visit, a white soldier
who occupied the bed next TO the
Negro soldier being interviewed,
was asked 10 get into the picture.
am glad that you asked me to
get into the picture he said, be
cause Il is time that the people were
tindlng out that we are all fighting
for the same thing" This soldier
was Sgt. Thomas Stock from Penn
Sylvania. who had been wounded
in action in the Southwest Pacific.
Il would like 10 live in Hawaii.
but under peace time conditions"
said Pvt Albert Maxwell Of Brook
Ign, N. Y. Hawaii is like a big
garden Maxwell continued, and
has wonderful climate" Maxwell
told reporters that he had gotten
to be something Of an expert at
surf riding while there. He suffered
a complete disleeatien OF his right
ankle in an accident while on duty
with the 369th Coast Artillery.
Willis Scott was too i'll 10 be seen
at the time the Chronicle visited
the hospital, however the story was
told that while Injuries TO his throat
and head made il impossible for
him TO eat solid foods, he still MAIN
tanned his sense of humor. He was
being fed by tube into his stomach
and on one occasion was found
pouring wine Unto the tube. Scott
lost the lower half OF his face and
is having new one made.
Nerve Cases Held
A gunshot wound in the right
elbow so shattered the arm OF Sgt.
William Prowell Of Chicago that he
was returned to the states after IL
months in England and Africa. A
member OF the 65th Ordnance unit
and holder OF the Purple Heart,
Prowell is being held at the hos
pital until the main nerve OF his
right forearm grows back Because
Of the indefinite effects of nerve
wounds, the men who have such
wounds are held until it can be
reasonably determined as TO what
the after effects will be, Sgt. Prowell
said.
Nineteen months in Africa and
Sicily came TO an end for Pvt. Oil
YER Ramsey when he received a
gunshot wound in the leg in Sicily
/ He lis from Alton, III. and belonged
to the 93rd Tank Destroyer unit In
the same ward with Ramsey were
Walter McClain Of the 477th Bomber
Group and Walter Whitman Of the
362nd Bomber Squadron.
All OF the men interviewed were
loud in their praise of the hospital
staff and expressed utmost conf.
dence in the doctors who served
them.