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51st Field Hospital personnel at a training camp

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.417.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1395 | Film ID: 2981

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    51st Field Hospital personnel at a training camp

    Overview

    Description
    Daily life of the 51st Field Hospital personnel at a training camp, possibly in the US or in England. Captain Beatrice Wachter (the donor's grandmother) enlisted in June 1943 and departed from Europe on February 26, 1944. A group of men in military uniform and women uniformed as nurses laugh and joke around for the camera. The man with a moustache wears the eagle pin on his cap and the caduceus insignia on his collar, indicating that he is a colonel in a medical corps. Several people in a small boat cross a pond. Two women and two young girls walk and pose for the camera by a large stone wall (shot in slow motion). 01:00:49 Beatrice, the short woman with dark hair, poses in uniform and hat. Young girls pick flowers. Local architecture. Beatrice and other medical corps nurses pose for the camera. Older couple (civilians) pose in garden. 01:01:51 Women in medical corps uniforms line up and run drills (some shot in slow motion), then pose for a group photo (the male officer in the back row teases one of the women). Women and other personnel read on the lawn. 01:03:09 Beatrice and two women in civilian clothes pose for the camera. A child peers at the women from inside the house. Others pose for the camera in front of the same brick building.
    Duration
    00:03:37
    Date
    Event:  1943-1944?
    Locale
    Unknown
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Jack Stein
    Contributor
    Subject: Bertha (Bessie) B. Wachtel
    Biography
    Beatrice Wachter (1906-1979) from Philadelphia, PA married Harry Wachter, a circulation agent with the Philadelphia Daily News, in 1931. She enlisted with the Army Nurse Corps at the age of 37 on June 7, 1943 and arrived in Europe on March 11, 1944. She served with the 51st Field Hospital in the campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe, and returned home on November 29, 1945. She received a Certificate of Merit: "With unselfish disregard for her own comfort and safety, Lt. Wachter contributed immeasurably to the care and well being of the many seriously wounded patients of the 51st Field Hospital in France, Belgium and Germany."

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:00:00:00 to 01:03:37:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2981 Video: HDCam - color - NTSC
      Master 2982 Video: HDCam - color - NTSC
      Master 2981 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - Kodachrome - original
      Master 2981 Video: HDCam - color - NTSC
      Master 2982 Video: HDCam - color - NTSC
      Master 2981 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - Kodachrome - original
      Master 2981 Video: HDCam - color - NTSC
      Master 2982 Video: HDCam - color - NTSC
      Master 2981 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - Kodachrome - original
      Master 2981 Video: HDCam - color - NTSC
      Master 2982 Video: HDCam - color - NTSC
      Master 2981 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - Kodachrome - original
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2981 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC
      Preservation 2982 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC
      Preservation 2981 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2982 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2981 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC
      Preservation 2982 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC
      Preservation 2981 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2982 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2981 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC
      Preservation 2982 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC
      Preservation 2981 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2982 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2981 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC
      Preservation 2982 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC
      Preservation 2981 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2982 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
    • User
    • User 2981 Video: DVD - color
      User 2982 Video: DVD - color
      User 2981 Video: DVD - color
      User 2982 Video: DVD - color
      User 2981 Video: DVD - color
      User 2982 Video: DVD - color
      User 2981 Video: DVD - color
      User 2982 Video: DVD - color

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Conditions on Use
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Jack Stein, the grandson of Captain Beatrice B. Wachter, donated two reels of original 16mm Kodachrome film documenting the daily lives of members of the 51st Field Hospital between 1943 and 1945 to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2013.
    Note
    Detailed film condition and transfer report from Brodsky and Treadway in departmental files.
    Film Source
    Jack Stein
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5614
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:06:52
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