Oral History Interview with Kenneth Olin, November 26, 2004

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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Kenneth R. Olin. Olin was drafted into the Army as a Combat Medic in 1945 and completed basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington. He was preparing to ship out to Europe when Germany surrendered, and was sent to Bushnell General Military Hospital in Brigham City, Utah, instead. The hospital specialized in plastic and maxillofacial surgery, treating amputees, tropical diseases, psychiatric problems, and trained medical staff to go overseas. Olin counseled the amputees and psychiatric cases that were being discharged to veterans’ hospitals and to their homes. There was … continued below

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Olin, Kenneth November 26, 2004.

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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Kenneth R. Olin. Olin was drafted into the Army as a Combat Medic in 1945 and completed basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington. He was preparing to ship out to Europe when Germany surrendered, and was sent to Bushnell General Military Hospital in Brigham City, Utah, instead. The hospital specialized in plastic and maxillofacial surgery, treating amputees, tropical diseases, psychiatric problems, and trained medical staff to go overseas. Olin counseled the amputees and psychiatric cases that were being discharged to veterans’ hospitals and to their homes. There was a prisoner of war camp established near the Bushnell Hospital for German and Italian prisoners of war, some of whom were taken to work in the hospital under the close supervision of hospital personnel. Olin recalls conversations with a young German POW. He was discharged in 1949.

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Olin, Kenneth. Oral History Interview with Kenneth Olin, November 26, 2004, text, November 26, 2004; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1606437/: accessed May 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.

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