Returning Patients, Nurses and Civilian Workers
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Captain and Mrs. Carlos Ogden (left) and Captain Franklin Nicholson
at Wakeman - 1946

On board a C-46 at Freeman AAF, Seymour, Indiana preparing to leave for Percy Jones Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan when Wakeman General Hospital closes. 

 July 24, 1946

l-r: Unknown, Unknown, Frank Nicholson, Jim Blackstock, Raymond Binder, Francis Eisemann, Colonel Blocker, Head of Plastic Surgery, Wakeman Hospital (next to open door).

Unknown standing Nurse, Unknown bed ridden patient in upper bunk, Unknown patient in lowest bunk, Robert McGuire.

Wakeman Ward Party

1-Lt. Lee Ora Catherine Boyle, 2-Lt. Collins, 3-Lt. Thelma Horner Nowak, 4-Don Ellis, 5-Calt. Franklin Nicholson, 6-Jack Wise, 7-Tom Pouttu, 8. Fred Ellis

Colonel Blocker (center) and group of patients at Wakeman, July 1946

Captain Franklin Nicholson and friend, 1946

Lt. Thelma Novak and Captain Franklin Nicholson
Wakeman Hospital - 1946  Ward 12 A

1st Row, l-r: Jim Blackstock and Morris Bellows
Back Row: Frank Nicholson and Raymond Binder

Heading for Battlecreek and Percy Jones Army Hospital at Freeman AAF, Seymour, Indiana.

Front, l-r: Francis Peterson, Steven Boberski, Bob Hunt, and Robert McGuier.
Back Row: Morris Bellows, Jim Childer, Jim Blackstock, Frank Nicholson, Raymond Binder and Francis Eisenmann.  July 1946

Franklin Nicholson and former Nurse, Thelma Nowak at Walbridge, Ohio in 1994

Birthday Party in Ward 12 A

Hewitt, Kelland, Asker and Steve

Rear - Mark, Mary, Jessie, Ted
Front - Jack and Don

Mary and Thelma Nowak

Mary, Mark, Jessie and Ted
December 1945