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ISABELLA HUGHES - POZZUOLI 1944
3rd Infantry Division Clubmobile
Isabella "Jingles" Hughes, on the left, was from Baltimore. Isabella was in Sicily in July of 1943 and was under the direction of Eleanor Stevenson in Italy and worked in a unit with Lois Berney who was later decorated for her service with the Ranger Battalions on the Cassino front. Flo, Dottie, and Liz (in the truck) pose along with Jingles and soldiers from the 3rd Reconnaissance Battle Patrol in Pozzuoli. Hughes, along with Suzy Macpherson, Betty Coxe, and Eleanor Preble were assigned to the 3rd Division in December 1943 before the division landed at Anzio.
This passage describes her actions on Christmas Day 1943: "Red Cross Clubmobile girls often turned up where they were least expected. On Christmas Day 1943, a doughboy in a foxhole up in the rain-soaked mountains was about to open a can of C-rations for Christmas dinner. Suddenly he looked up to find Isabella Hughes of Baltimore, Red Cross Clubmobile girl, crouching on the edge of his foxhole, a box of doughnuts in one hand and a pot of steaming coffee in the other. 'Good Lord, sweetheart,' he exclaimed, 'What in hell are you doing here?'" [NYT - Turner Catledge]
photo: courtesy Molly Martin/Florence Wick
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