Stark General Hospital

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Description:

Black and white photograph of several unidentified officers eating at a set of shorter tables surrounded by a set of longer tables. The tables are decorated with white table clothes and candles with evergreens and it appears to be the Christmas dinner service. Notation on reverse reads, "Stark Officer's Club."

Stark General Hospital was located on Dorchester Road, Rural Delivery 2 and was officially named in honor of Colonel Alexander N. Stark on February 11, 1941. It accommodated 2,400 beds and was ready for patients on May 18, 1941 specializing in general and orthopedic surgery. As the war progressed it became a fully-functional debarkation hospital for casualties and sick personnel arriving at the Port of Charleston.