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    A Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps tends to a wounded soldier on a hospital train at Lison

    train station. The wartime censor has scratched out the face of one the wounded but oddly not theother.

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    These wounded come from a hospital near Lison that opened on the 28th of July and had a 400

     bed capacity spread oer !40 tents.

    They were then transported on trains li"e this to the #$th %eneral &ospital near Cherbour' wherethey stayed or eacuated onto (n'land. The Lison hospital remained open until the 2!rd of

    )ctober* when it became a +), camp.

    Army Nurse Corps

    Series of three pictures showing a hospital

    train at Lison station on August the 5th 1944.

    ,al"in' wounded await the departure of their train from Lison station to Cherbour'.

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    These wounded come from a hospital near Lison that opened on the 28th of July and had a 400

     bed capacity spread oer !40 tents.

    They were then transported on trains li"e this to the #$th %eneral &ospital near Cherbour' wherethey stayed or eacuated onto (n'land. The Lison hospital remained open until the 2!rd of

    )ctober* when it became a +), camp.

    Men of the 720th Railway perating

    !attalion at wor" in Lison station

    +icture ta"en on the #th of Au'ust -44 of dispatchers busy at wor" in Lison station

    Left to ri'ht

    Cpl Arthur /wisher* Cornin'* ).

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    1/'t John 3erneiren* /prin'field* 1ans.

    T/'t Archie idd* Ni'h'roe* Cal.

    /epper 5uc"* (ly Cambs* (n'land

    /'t 1elin 6. &olmber'* 1inneapolis* 1inn.

    /'t ,arren (. 6oberts* 1inneapolis* 1inn.

    Lt %eor'e &. /hael* Chica'o* 7ll.

    T/'t John &. Toler* +esch )rchard* Ar".

    //'t 6onald +. /toc"man* /peener* ,isconsin.

    A#erican loco#oti$e %!roa&way Li#ite&%at Lison station

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    1en of the 20th 6ailway )peratin' 5attalion too" oer Lison station on the -$th of July and

    helped by the 9rench ciilian wor"ers repaired the trac"s and facilties enou'h to allow the rail

    networ" to be used to transport men and munitions to the front.

    Series of three pictures showing a hospitaltrain at Lison station on August the 5th 1944.

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    Ambulances are unloaded into a waitin' hospital train at Lison station. These wounded come

    from a hospital near Lison that opened on the 28th of July and had a 400 bed capacity spreadoer !40 tents.

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    They were then transported on trains li"e this to the #$th %eneral &ospital near Cherbour' where

    they stayed or eacuated onto (n'land. The Lison hospital remained open until the 2!rd of

    )ctober* when it became a +), camp.

    Lison goo&s yar& after Allie& air attac".

    9rench railway wor"ers and Americans of the 20th 6ailway )peratin' 5attalion wor" to repaira section of line a Lison 'oods yard to allow the passa'e of the locomotie in the bac"'round.

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    The station was mana'ed by the 20th from the -$th of July. The waitin' locomotie can be seen

    in the ne:t picture.

    The first train between Lison and Le 1olay;Littry moed on the -8th of July* with a serice toCherbour' from Au'ust the 4th.

    Lison goo&s yar& after Allie& air attac".

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    9rench ciilians seen 'atherin' 'rain from a 'oods car after it was ripped open by a nearby

    Allied bomb.

    Lison goo&s yar& after Allie& air attac".

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    /ame location as the preious picture* ta"en from a different an'le. )ther wa'ons down the line

    hae also been wrec"ed and burnt out. To the top ri'ht of the picture some locomoties hae been turned in to scrap iron by direct hit.

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