Lt Colonel Bruce Hinson photograph album

Bruce Rateliff Hinson (1906-1992) was born on 4 August 1906 in Bono, Arkansas to Tolbert and Theodocia Hinson. He and his wife Elizabeth (1908-1995) had two children, Brian and Betsy. He joined the United States Army Medical Corps in July 1942 with the rank of captain. He went overseas in 1944. He was assigned to the 4th Auxiliary Surgery Group with the 3rd Army as chief of a mobile surgery team. His unit arrived at Buchenwald the day after it was liberated, which he described in detail in a letter to his wife. He was discharged in November 1945 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. The collection consists of an annotated photograph album documenting Bruce Rateliff Hinson, MD’s experiences as an army surgeon during World War II. The album covers his entire military career from 1942-1945. It includes depictions of his family; training at Sioux Falls and Atlanta; and overseas posts in England, Brittany (France), Luxembourg, and Germany (Nuremberg, Bamberg, Passau). There are six photographs taken at Buchenwald the day after liberation primarily documenting piles of corpses and building structures.