US army transfers patients to Odstock
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US forces on weekly parade retreat, 1940s
On the 12th December 1942 the US army transferred patients to a site at Odstock, near Salisbury. The site was built to receive casualties from northern France and would later treat soldiers wounded in the D-Day landings in 1944.