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1942



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The new hospital was state-of-the-art and known as the finest hospital in the South. Two banks of high-speed elevators carried doctors, nurses, patients and others from floor to floor. The fifth floor was a maternity ward; the seventh floor featured eleven operating rooms. Both of those floors were air conditioned. The top two floors had living space for 150 nurses and 25 interns and resident physicians.
From March 1942 until April 1944 two of the floors were used for secret work by the U.S. Army Replacement and School Command. Responsible for all personnel training, the unit’s headquarters had been relocated to Birmingham from Washington, D.C., to protect it from possible enemy attack.



























































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At the sprawling Aircraft Modification Center in Birmingham, Alabama, a Bechtel concern oversaw 14,000 workers modifying B-24 and B-29 bombers. The center also restored battle-fatigued jeeps, hiring a group of 600 men. With knowledge gained from shipbuilding and airplane modification, managers supervised the restoration and modernization of thousands of vehicles.