Rank and Name, First Lieutenant (Nurse) Blanche Faye Sigman.
Unit/Placed in, Army Nurse Corps, United States Army.
Blanche is born on7 November 1907 in Byesville, Guernsey County, Ohio.
Father, Joseph Allen Sigman.
Mother, Blanch (Whitis) Sigman.
Blanche enlisted the service in Ohio with service number # N-728973.
Blanche was KIA when a German pilot dropped his bombs while trying to escape a U.S. fighter aircraft on the Evacuation Hospital she was a Nurse in on 7 February 1944, she is honored with a Italian War Cross, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, Nurse Corps Badge, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.
Blanche was buried at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Piazzale Kennedy 1, Nettuno, Italy.
Blanch was reburied in 1949 at Enon Cemetery, Byesville, Guernsey County, Ohio, USA.
The 2 Nurses I found also died in this Bombing were;
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180518311/carrie-sheetz
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180518311/carrie-sheetz
Thanks to,
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KHXX-VRS
https://www.navsource.org/archives/30/08/0804.htm
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
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Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
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TWS Roll of Honor, togetherweserved.com
On September 13, 1943, Sigman was serving aboard the hospital ship for the Eighth Army, the HMHS Newfoundland, in the Gulf of Salerno, Italy, when German planes bombed the ship. She survived the attack and went on to serve in Italy during the Anzio campaign. Along with some 200 nurses, and while being bombarded, Sigman cared for 33,000 patients at Anzio. On February 7, 1944, a Luftwaffe pilot fleeing from a British fighter dropped a load of bombs on the hospital where Sigman was caring for the wounded. Sigman died in the attack. Fellow soldiers temporarily interred her body on the Anzio beachhead next to her patients. In 1948 she was reinterred in her hometown of Byesville, Ohio. A US Army Hospital Ship was named the Blanche Faye Sigman in her honor.
Thanks to; https://www.honorstates.org
