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  Updated September 1, 2011

Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area

204 Church Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460

hspa@verizon.net   610-935-7646

www.hspa-pa.org   or   www.phoenixvillehistoricalsociety.org


Valley Forge General Hospital
 


        Click to view a Brief History of the Valley Forge General Hospital.



Photo of June 1942 construction.  The facility had over 100 buildings.  There were tunnels between many of the buildings to facilitate all weather movement of patients between the buildings.

July 1942 construction

August 1942 construction

October 1942 construction

December 1942 construction

VFGH barracks construction

Wounded Soldiers brought to VFGH in 1943

Wounded Soldiers from North Africa and the Pacific brought to VFGH by train

General Omar Bradley visit during Korean War

Visit by Connie Mack

Aerial view of Valley Forge General Hospital early 1950s

Administration Building

MPs at VFGH in 1945

VFGH Crest

Administration Building late 1940s

Valley Forge General Hospital c. 1960

Bonanza visitors in 1964

Celebrity Visitors Justice Owen J. Roberts & Gene Kelly in 1943

Visit to VFGH by the Windsors

Visit to VFGH by the Windsors

Chapel

Chapel

Chapel interior

Chapel fire in 1950s

Col. Henry Beewkes - First Commanding Officer

Community support

Military Honor ceremony in 1944

First Commanding Officer Col. Henry Beewkes

Flag raising

German POW Stockade

German POWs at Valley Forge General Hospital in 1944

German POWs at Valley Forge General Hospital in 1945

VFGH POW canteen scrip

VFGH Post PX

Guardhouse and Main Entrance c 1950

Chapel

Hospital Main Entrance c. 1960s


VFGH Staff Member

Occupational Therapy

Officers Mess

Valley Forge General Hospital in 1947

Post Telephone Exchange

Post Greenhouse

Post Theatre

Red Cross Crafts

Quartermaster Laundry

Post Radio Station

Post Entrance

Red Cross Crafts

Red Cross Crafts

Red Cross crafts

PFC John Knapp, MP at VFGH in 1945

VFGH Fire Truck in Phoenixville Dogwood Parade

VFGH Mens Softball Team

VFGH Mens Softball Team

VFGH Womens Softball Team

VFGH Gymnasium

VFGH staff member

Wards, Ambulances & Chapel

VFGH Medical Library

VFGH Post Dining Hall

VFGH Post Library

J.F. K. Memorial Service in November 1963

Patient recreation

Aerial View of VFGH

VFGH softball team

WACS in 1943

VFGH Softball Team

Dogwood Parade in Phoenixville

Dogwood Parade

Post Theatre

VFGH Heliport in 1973


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