took it over through after its return to the Japanese. I understand that Abe Lincoln operated a web site until about 2005 that had a pictorial history of the structure from before the U.S. The recent and ongoing tragedies have made me wonder what became of the 172nd Station Hospital.
The Army sent me to Ethiopia where I worked out of Kagnew Station. Arabic of all languages, even though I already spoke German. I also became a linguist and worked in the intelligence area. In addition to Camp Schimmelpfennig, etc. All the names I hear on the news – Miyagi, Fukushima, Daiichi – are names I grew up with. My father was a 1st Lieutenant in CIC, primary MOS Japanese linguist and interrogator.
My link to Sendai is that I was born there 5/7/49. Sendai and its people have been in my thoughts since I first heard about this tragedy. Your story is a fascinating one of getting the job done. 53 Responses to “Sendai, Japan – 172nd Station Hospital” In this time of unparalleled tragedy, our thoughts and prayers are with the people of this region. Whether the memories are good or bad, many American servicemen still hold ties to Sendai, Japan. She’s got this guy’s face unwrapped and is kissing on him. I’m wondering what’s going on, so I go back to check it out. This time, she walks right back without saying anything. “Later, I’m working on another guy and she comes back again. “A nurse comes in and says she has to go back and see this guy. His face was badly burned and all wrapped up. All his veins had collapsed and I had to go into his leg to get blood. …Never heard from him again and don’t know if he lived or died. I wasn’t smart enough to follow through with it and finish up. He got burned up real bad and they sent him back to the States. We were just ready to send some results back to the States for testing. This was a doctor and I wasn’t supposed to know anything. “One in particular, he and I were working on an experiment. “We lost a lot of good people in there,” he said. No one showed us anything.”Ī tragic fire in the nurses’ quarters seared Morr’s memory forever. …You had to learn to do these things yourself.
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“Within the next month, I was drawing blood, testing guys for gonorrhea and syphilis, plus doing blood cultures, checking for staph and strep infections. He explained to me that he was on his way back to the States and said this black book would explain everything that I should or could do. Anyway, I met all in the lab and one of them said that I was to be the new bacteriologist. I had no clue what a laboratory even was. “I thought to myself, what are they doing to me. “I was told that I was to be assigned to a medical laboratory,” he said. Army veteran, Jerry Morr arrived in Sendai in 1946. Ī postal insurance building in the city was turned into the 172nd Station Hospital. We're talking about the land of Minamata and a whole slough of other examples of trying to pay people off and deny what happened, then deny the seriousness, then a company or what have you waiting until those directly responsible die so that they can admit the problem but say it was not of their doing and the people responsible are gone, etc.Jerry Morr served at the 172nd Station Hospital - Sendai, Japan in 1946. The woman has every right to be angry, even after she was likely offered ¥50,000 compensation for her son's life of pain and suffering, but to blame it solely on the war and not on the IJA and people who put it there is disingenuous at best.īut nothing will be done about it.
"If only there had been no war, we wouldn't have had to go through this." "With Japan's defeat in the war in 1945, the military's top brass, fearing war crimes charges, kept silent and burned all related documents."ĭon't they still deny it? We know they deny everything else unless it happened to them, but I think I've also heard it denied that there was any military base there.
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