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Today in World War II History—February 7, 1944

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 by Sarah Sundin
US 56th Evacuation Hospital after an air raid, 1944 (US Army Medical Department)

US 56th Evacuation Hospital after an air raid, 1944 (US Army Medical Department)

80 Years Ago—Feb. 7, 1944: US secures Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

At Anzio, Italy, US 95th Evacuation Hospital is accidentally bombed when a German fighter pilot jettisons bombs under Allied fighter attack; 28 hospital personnel and patients killed, including 3 nurses and the first female American Red Cross worker to be killed in action in WWII; the German pilot is shot down and treated in the same hospital. Read more: “Courage under Fire – US Army Hospitals at Anzio.”

John Hersey’s best-selling novel A Bell for Adano is published; it will win the Pulitzer Prize.

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