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https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/03/01/indianapolis-nurse-angel-anzio/351722002/
Fuzzy memories become clear as she recalls the events of Feb. 7, 1944, in vivid, tearful reverence. A surgical nurse, Somes had only been with the 95th evacuation hospital for a couple of days when the chief nurse ordered her to take a corpsman to her tent and dig a foxhole under her cot.
The nurse and the foxhole saved her life when a German pilot, pursued by British fighter planes, unleashed five antipersonnel bombs.
Somes jumped into a nearby foxhole filled with cold water. “The earth just shook and I was in that hole and the earth felt like it was closing in on me and I wouldn't get out,” Somes said.
When the bombing stopped, Somes and the corpsman emerged to see where they would be needed.
The hospital tent had been leveled.
Fuzzy memories become clear as she recalls the events of Feb. 7, 1944, in vivid, tearful reverence. A surgical nurse, Somes had only been with the 95th evacuation hospital for a couple of days when the chief nurse ordered her to take a corpsman to her tent and dig a foxhole under her cot.
The nurse and the foxhole saved her life when a German pilot, pursued by British fighter planes, unleashed five antipersonnel bombs.
Somes jumped into a nearby foxhole filled with cold water. “The earth just shook and I was in that hole and the earth felt like it was closing in on me and I wouldn't get out,” Somes said.
When the bombing stopped, Somes and the corpsman emerged to see where they would be needed.
The hospital tent had been leveled.