Hirst, David

Dr. David Hirst was a 34-year-old, small-town physician at the time Pearl Harbor was attacked. By summer, he signed up to serve in the Army Medical Corps, the first doctor in Miamisburg OH to volunteer. Given U. S. Army serial number 01 693 210, he trained in Texas and was sent to England in August 1942 to begin his service in the Fifth Army as an Army doctor, the oldest man in his battalion except for the chaplain, his dear friend Father John Kenney of New York City. Later he served at some of the fiercest battle sites of the war at Kasserine Pass, Hill 609, Monte Cassino, and Anzio in North