25 June 1944 Part 4

25 June 1944 Part 4 Cherbourg wounded landed on Alderney

Date note: 25 June 1944, 23:00.

Army Surgeon 7

IA No 1015/44 Secret

Army headquarters 25 June 1944

To Army Group Surgeon D

War diary copy Annex 92

Medical tactical situation on 25 June 1944 at 23:00

The leader of Sulphonamide Research Detachment III reports that the first surgical team is employed at the field half-hospital of the 711th Division [unit number has a handwritten correction, not confidently deciphered], the second at the main dressing station of the 346th Division, and the third at Military Hospital 1/613 in Évreux. He himself is at the military hospital in Évreux with the attached pathologists and bacteriologists.

The wounded evacuated from Cherbourg fortress by ship have been landed on Alderney.

The Cherbourg field garrison doctor today reports 2,000 patients in the hospitals. Evacuation from Cherbourg is no longer possible at present. The main dressing station of the 21st Panzer Division at La Bestrie was closed on 23 June. The company has moved to Château Villeroy and will remain there resting for the present.

The corps surgeon of LXXXVI Army Corps reports his quarters at Manerbe, northwest of Lisieux.

The sick collecting station at St Servan reports that the hospital ship Hüxter has been hit by several bombs and completely burnt out.

Medical Company 243 has established a local hospital for seriously wounded men at Équilly, eighteen kilometres east of Granville.

Army Surgeon 19, Colonel Doctor Baader, is spending two days in the Army area to acquaint himself with the employment of the Army medical troops and the experience gained so far in medical tactics.

For information Chief Quartermaster Qu 1

[Signature not confidently deciphered.]

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