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 the
other.

These wounded come from a hospital near Lison that opened on the 28th of July and had a 400
bed capacity spread over 340 tents.
They were then transported on trains like this to the 56th General Hospital near Cherbourg where
they stayed or evacuated onto England. The Lison hospital remained open until the 23rd of
October, when it became a POW camp.
Army Nurse Corps

Series of three pictures showing a hospital

train at Lison station on August the 5th 1944.

Walking wounded await the departure of their train from Lison station to Cherbourg.

These wounded come from a hospital near Lison that opened on the 28th of July and had a 400
bed capacity spread over 340 tents.
They were then transported on trains like this to the 56th General Hospital near Cherbourg where
they stayed or evacuated onto England. The Lison hospital remained open until the 23rd of
October, when it became a POW camp.

Men of the 720th Railway Operating

Battalion at work in Lison station

Picture taken on the 5th of August 1944 of dispatchers busy at work in Lison station
Left to right
Cpl Arthur Swisher, Corning, O.;

M/Sgt John Verneiren, Springfield, Mans.;

T/Sgt Archie Kidd, Nighgrove, Cal.;
Sepper Buck, Ely Cambs, England;
Sgt Melvin R. Holmberg, Minneapolis, Minn.;
Sgt Warren E. Roberts, Minneapolis, Minn.;
Lt George H. Shavel, Chicago, Ill.;
T/Sgt John H. Toler, Pesch Orchard, Ark.;
S/Sgt Ronald P. Stockman, Speener, Wisconsin.

American locomotive "Broadway Limited"

at Lison station

Men of the 720th Railway Operating Battalion took over Lison station on the 16th of July and
helped by the French civilian workers repaired the tracks and facilties enough to allow the rail
network to be used to transport men and munitions to the front.

Series of three pictures showing a hospital

train at Lison station on August the 5th 1944.

Ambulances are unloaded into a waiting 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 spread
over 340 tents.

They were then transported on trains like this to the 56th General Hospital near Cherbourg where
they stayed or evacuated onto England. The Lison hospital remained open until the 23rd of
October, when it became a POW camp.

Lison goods yard after Allied air attack.

French railway workers and Americans of the 720th Railway Operating Battalion work to repair
a section of line a Lison goods yard to allow the passage of the locomotive in the background.

The station was managed by the 720th from the 16th of July. The waiting locomotive can be seen
in the next picture.
The first train between Lison and Le Molay-Littry moved on the 18th of July, with a service to
Cherbourg from August the 4th.

Lison goods yard after Allied air attack.

French civilians seen gathering grain from a goods car after it was ripped open by a nearby
Allied bomb.

Lison goods yard after Allied air attack.

Same location as the previous picture, taken from a different angle. Other wagons down the line
have also been wrecked and burnt out. To the top right of the picture some locomotives have
been turned in to scrap iron by direct hit.

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