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Introduction: The 60th Field Hospital was activated February 1, 1944, by re-designation of the 283d Station Hospital. Its first Officers or cadre, consisting of 1 MC Officer – 2 MAC Officers – and 1 DC Officer were members of the 283d Sta Hosp. The major portion of the Enlisted Men were drawn from the re-designated […]

Introduction & Activation: The 313th Station Hospital was originally activated as the 10th Hospital Center, 25 June 1942, at Camp Rucker, Ozark, Alabama (Division Camp. Overall acreage 58,999; troop capacity 3,280 Officers and 39,461 Enlisted Men –ed) with a cadre of 1 Medical Administrative Corps Officer and 22 Enlisted from Lawson General Hospital (named after […]

Introduction: The S/S Lewis A. Luckenbach (vessel pertaining to the Luckenbach Steamship Company) freighter was first registered 18 April 1919, with Boston, Massachusetts, as her home port. The ship’s crew numbered 52 in total and could hold 12 passengers. Many of the large ships operated by the Luckenbach Line or under construction were commandeered by the […]

Introduction & Activation: On Saturday, 26 August 1944, the 189th General Hospital was officially activated at Camp Barkeley, Abilene, Texas (Armored Division Camp & Medical Replacement Training Center; overall acreage 69,879; troop capacity 3,192 Officers and 54,493 Enlisted Men –ed), under the provisions of T/O & E 8-550 dated 3 July 1944, and by Letter […]

Introduction & Activation: The 80th General Hospital was officially activated 20 August 1942 at Camp White, Medford, Oregon (Division Camp; total acreage 49,638; troop capacity 1,884 Officers and 35,557 Enlisted Men –ed), with Captain Thomas R. Evans, Commanding. On 27 September 1942, Lt. Colonel Emmett B. Litteral, MC, arrived and assumed command of the organization, […]

Introduction & Activation: As a part of the war program of the University of Illinois, the Chicago Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy, including Rush Medical College, requested permission on April 24, 1942, to organize an affiliated US Army Evacuation Hospital. Dr. Charles B. Puestow, Associate Professor of Surgery, who had been active in advocating […]

Introduction & Activation: The 101st General Hospital was officially activated on 21 December 1943 according to General Orders No. 262 (Headquarters, 6th Service Command, ASF, Chicago, Illinois, dated 21 December 1943 –ed). Hospital Order No. 1 formally organized the unit on the same date at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois (Medical Replacement Unit Training Center; total […]

Introduction & Activation: In the summer of 1941, the War Department requested the Cincinnati Hospital to constitute the 25th General Hospital. The project was intended to set up a medical organization similar to the one that served during World War I of the same name (Base Hospital No. 25 became part of a Hospital Center […]

Introduction & Activation: The 400-bed 10th Field Hospital was constituted on 23 June 1942 and activated 6 July 1942 at Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas (Armored Division Camp; total acreage 116,264; troop capacity 2,237 Officers and 43,247 Enlisted Men –ed) and served in both the North African, Mediterranean and European Theaters of Operations during World War […]

Introduction & Activation: The 21st General Hospital was the successor to the World War I Base Hospital No. 21 which served in France during the Great War. When the British Government requested medical assistance, the United States promised to help. Base Hospital No. 21, staffed by medical personnel drawn from Barnes Hospital and the Washington […]