Source Material
- The History of the 56th Evacuation Hospital, Buffalo, NY, Holling Press, 1946 (available in the Baylor Health Sciences Library, BUMC).
- Merrick, Benjamin A: Author's overseas diary (unpublished).
- The Italian Campaign. World War If, by Wallace, Robert and the editors of Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia. TimeLife Books, 1978.
- The Second World War, by Churchill, Winston S. and the editors of Life, Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1959.
- The Encylopaedia Brittanica, 15th ed, 1979.
- The Wonders of Italy. the Medici Series, 7th ed, Florence, Italy, Joseph Fattorusco, 1937.