US 56th Evacuation Hospital at Anzio after similar air raid
(US Army Medical Department)
70 Years Ago—Feb. 7,
1944: At Anzio, the US 95th
Evacuation Hospital is accidentally bombed when a German fighter pilot jettisons
bombs under Allied fighter attack; 28 hospital personnel and patients killed,
including 3 nurses; the German pilot is shot down and treated in the same hospital.
