Stark General Hospital
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Description:
Black and white photograph of several soldiers in uniform posing for the camera on the grounds of Stark General Hospital. Notation on reverse identifies the third man from the left as Frank "Spitz" Spasato from Westerly, Rhode Island.
Stark General Hospital was located on Dorchester Road, Rural Delivery 2 and was officially named in honor of Colonel Alexander N. Stark on February 11, 1941. It accommodated 2,400 beds and was ready for patients on May 18, 1941 specializing in general and orthopedic surgery. As the war progressed it became a fully-functional debarkation hospital for casualties and sick personnel arriving at the Port of Charleston.
- Title: Stark General Hospital
- Photographer: Unattributed
- Date: c. 1944
- Collection: Photograph Collection
- Object Name: World War II
- Object Id: 2010.2.26
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