Fitzsimons General Hospital

The hospital itself was built during the First World War to treat wounded soldiers from gas attacks and was named after the first Medical Officer that felt in the First World War: Lt. William T. Fitzsimons. The new section was opened on December 3, 1941. Victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor were the hospital's first patients during World War II. Fitzsimons Army Medical Center closed in 1999.

At the premises of Fitzsimons Hospital was in World War 2 a POW camp located for Italian and German soldiers who were diagnosed with tuberculosis.
The POW’s were located in barracks under very basic conditions. The camp was razed down in 1947.

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Source

• Text: Gio Theunissen & TracesOfWar
• Photos: Gio Theunissen
• Richard E. Osborne, World War II Sites in the United States - A Tour Guide & Directory