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PFC Benjamin Kaplow

US ARMY, 26th Infantry (Yankee Division) 104th Regiment, WW11

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Category: Sep, 1945

Sept 11, 1945 — Picked up slight case of Yellow Jaundice. Now in Evac. Hospital. Don’t worry – other fellows evacuated for same.

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Sept 14, 1945 Regensburg 250th Station Hospital. Rest, rest, rest. My excuse about nothing happening will be worked to the bone.

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Sept 14, 1945 Picture Postcard of 250th Station Hospital. Ben marks an X to show his room.

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Sept 16, 1945 — My hospital only 300-400 yards from Messerschmitt Plant which is now piles of stone & brick. Precision bombing.

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Read about the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweinfurt%E2%80%93Regensburg_mission

1st Bomb Wing B-17s over Schweinfurt, Germany

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Sep 16, 1945 – You’ve probably heard about being in the hospital for Yellow Jaundice

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Sept 18, 1945 — New doctor in today. When he heard what I had, he said “you’re good for a month or more.”

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Sept 20, 1945 –So without further adieu, I give you a typical hospital day in the life of our hero, Pfc Kaplow.

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Sept 23, 1945 I’m still doing fine & slowly going batty. You told me if I just wrote that I was okay, it would be sufficient.

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Sept 26, 1945 — Reading Benchley & “Try & Stop Me” by Bennett Cerf – I’m off on a laughing jag. Can’t stop laughing at sayings.

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Sept 29, 1945 — I’m constantly acting out embarking from E.T.O, landing in the USA, the train ride home and finally in Rochester.

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