World War II photographs of Samuel Harvey Colvin, Jr., M.D. (Tulane School of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology - Nov.15,1940; on leave effective July 15, 1942, active duty U.S. Army with rank of Major). 24th General Hospital (United States. Army) . Thirty Tulane medical graduates and ten Tulane faculty members were included in the complement of forty-two medical doctors. The "Tulane Unit", activated in July 1942, was affiliated with the Fifth Army: Fort Benning (July 15, 1942 to August 8, 1943) -- Bizerte, Tunisia (September 8, 1943 to May 31, 1944) -- Grosseto, Italy (July 21, 1944 to September 15, 1944) -- Army headquarters near Florence, Italy (September 21, 1944- ) -- Livorno, Italy (June 1, 1945 to June 11, 1945). For more information see Tulane and the War, Tulanian, Jan. 1946 and Roll Call for the 24th General Hospital, Tulanian, Nov. 1967.
