Key Search Words: World War Two Letters from soldiers, 116th Station Hospital New Guinea, Loudon, Lincoln Nebraska, Australian Officers Club, Hopkins, Wyne, Red Cross, big events in the southwest Pacific.
Captain John Ralph Loudon M.D. was stationed in the 116th Field Hospital in the Pacific during World War II. Over 1,000 letters, photographs and other documents have been saved from his time served. These are samples from those archives. New posts will be made frequently. This will be in chronologic order so you can follow along. Blog created by John Ralph Loudon's grandson and great-grandchildren Andy Sherrick, John Loudon Sherrick and Anne Sherrick from Springfield Illinois.
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November 6, 1943
Key Search Words: World War Two letters from home, Lincoln Nebraska, St. Paul Methodist Church, E. Stanley Jones, Hit Parade - “Pistol Packin Mama” Al Dexter, “Paper Doll” The Mills Brothers, “Best Foot Forward” Lucile Ball, Activity in the southwest Pacific.
November 3, 1943
Key SearchWords: WWII letters from the Pacific, 116th Station Hospital New Guinea, Loudon, Austrian Hospital, native villages "Teeth are stained red or brown from chewing beetle nut which gives them a narcotic drunk",
November 2, 1943
Key Search Words: WWII letters, Dr. John Ralph Loudon, 116th Station Hospital New Guinea, Lincoln Nebraska, banana plantation, Coconut, tapioca fields, Sago starch from sago palms, Captain Hopkins, Natives call children "piccaninny" and carry them on their back. New Guinea natives clothing and bathing.
October 30, 1943 #2
Key Search Words: WWII, 116th Station Hospital New Guinea, Malaria wards, Lieutenant Mike Reagan, Maynard Hoffman, "American shore in '44, home alive by '45, in '46 will lick the Nips, by '47 will all be in heaven, '48 is too damned late"
October 25, 1943 #1
Key Search Words: World War II love letters from home, 116th Station Hospital New Guinea, Loudon, Lincoln Nebraska, infidelity during war.
October 22, 1943 #1
Key Search Words: Worl War 2 love letters from home, Lincoln Nebraska, Loudon, Florence Mason, Harriet and Mae Bardwell, sugar rationing, Pioneer park, "Next to myself I like you best, and I don't mean I like myself".
October 10, 1943 #1
Key Search Words: WWII Letters, Loudon, 116th Station Hospital New Guinea, Captain Hugh Hopkins, duraluminum ring from Japanese Zero, malaria, typhus, dysentery, atabrine, Rex Kroger, Masonic ring, coins, poker.
October 9, 1943 #1
Key Search Words: WWII Letters, Loudon, 116th Station Hospital New Guinea, Shilling or Two Bob coin, Malaria, Typhus, Proposed in Congress to have fidelity of all wives receiving dependency allowances checked. Loudon Missionary Society, Natives.
Maps and Photographs
Courtesy Joseph and Lois Dunkle.
James F. Dunkle Sr. served as a medical technician at the 116th Station Hospital, New Guinea during WWII.
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