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Wakeman General Hospital
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 Interior view of the Second Floor of a portion of the 7.1 miles of interconnecting passageways 2 |
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 4 Looking East. Hospital Road at right edge. The Headquarters will be in the middle. |
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 6 Nurses' Mess Hall (bldg. 1001) and dormitories (1002 & 1003). Headquarters in the middle. Hospital Road in foreground. Corner of Bldg. 1005 shows at right. |
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 11 Trenching and beginning framing for one of the underground tunnels underneath the passageways. |
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 14 Center building will become the Wakeman Hospital Headquarters (bldg. 1007). It still exists today as the Job Corps Headquarters. Behind and left is bldg. 1009. In 2000 +/- the Job Corps moved to the North and no longer uses this building. |
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 16 Underground tunnel now framed and ready for concrete. Probably taken from the rear of the Headquarters building and looking North. |
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 23 Bldg 1005 in foreground and shows Headquarters (bldg. 1007) just begun. |
 24 Preparing foundations. |
 25 Building some of the 2-story passageways between all Hospital buildings. Probably from Headquarters building to the North |
 26 Nurses' Mess Hall (bldg. 1001 and 1002 behind it.) and dormitories with future Headquarters building in the center. Hospital Road. Cement mixing plant across the road. |
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 28 Shows intersecting passageways between Hospital buildings. Note below-ground tunnel, and doors for 1st and 2nd floors of the passageway. |
 29 Either bldg. 1037 - Mess Hall or bldg. 1025, Patients Mess Hall. |
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 33 Foundation preparation. |
 34 Looking West at the area the Hospital will be built in. |
 35 Looking West at the area the Hospital will be built in. |
 36 Interior of second floor of a passageway. |
 37 Shows the immense space inside one of the fifty-seven 2-story Hospital buildings. |
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 39 Note hog houses still in the area where the Hospital will be built. |
 40 One of the single-story Mess Halls for Nurses', fronting Hospital Road. Either bldg 1001 or 1005. |
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 44 Bldg. 1001 with 1002 in the middle. Bldg. 1004, Nurses' Mess Hall to right. As os 2009, the first two buildings (from left) still survive, and are in the process of being taken back by the U. S. Army. Hospital Road is shown and the road branching off is the entrance to the main Administration Building (which also still exists) |
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 Looking East Contributed by Chuck and Tamara Krimm |
 Looking Northwest |
 Looking North |
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07/10/2023 © James D. West - www.IndianaMilitary.org |