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Introduction & Activation: The 51st Field Hospital was activated on 10 September 1943 at Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas (Armored Division Camp; total acreage 116,264; troop capacity 2,237 Officers and 43,247 Enlisted Men –ed), pursuant to authority contained in War Department Letter AG 322 (dated 31 August 1943) OB-I-SPMOU-M, Subject “Constitution and Activation of Medical Units […]
Introduction & Activation: The 117th Evacuation Hospital was officially activated on 10 February 1944 at Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina (Field Artillery Replacement Training Center; acreage 129,422; troop capacity 4,311 Officers & 76,175 Enlisted Men –ed) per General Order Number 3, Headquarters XIII Corps, Fort Dupont, Delaware. Lt. Col. Alfred P. Thom was assigned as the […]
Introduction & Activation: The 7th Station Hospital was officially activated 10 February 1941, at Camp Edwards, Falmouth, Massachusetts, as per General Order # 5, HFCA, dated 4 February 1941, pursuant to authority contained in Paragraph 9a and 9a (1), War Department Letter AG 320.2 (dated 7 January 1941) M (Ret) M-C, dated 13 January 1941. […]
Introduction & Activation: The 7th Field Hospital was constituted by War Department Letter AG 320.2 (dated 30 December 1942) OB-I-SP-M, 25 January 1943, Subject: Constitution and Activation of Medical Units 1 January and February 1943, dated 5 January 1943, and officially activated at Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas, (Armored Division Camp; acreage 116,264; troop capacity 2,237 […]
Introduction & Activation: The 3d General Hospital was officially activated at Camp Rucker, Ozark, Alabama 1 September 1942 (Division Camp; acreage 58,999; troop capacity 3,280 Officers and 39,461 Enlisted Men –ed). In August of 1940, the Mt. Sinai Hospital of New York City was authorized to organize an affiliated unit to serve as the professional […]
Introduction & Activation: One (1) Officer and twenty-five (25) Enlisted Men, selected as an initial cadre from personnel at the Station Hospital, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, formed the nucleus of the 27th Station Hospital officially activated, effective 5 May 1942, at Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina (Field Artillery Replacement Training Center; acreage 129,411; troop capacity […]
Introduction & Activation: In early March 1940, Dr. Harold S. Diehl (Dean of the Medical Sciences at the University of Minnesota) received a communication from Surgeon General Magee, outlining a plan for the organization of affiliated General Hospitals to be available for early use in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The War Department, as part […]
General Introduction: Arthur Batterton deGrandpré was born on May 24, 1909 in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York, one of two sons of Arthur Amédée deGrandpré and Alexandrine Batterton. He graduated from St. John’s High School in 1924, and subsequently attended St. Michael’s College in Winooski, Vt., then Georgetown University, receiving his A.B. degree cum laude […]
Activation & Organization: The 45th General Hospital was officially activated on 15 May 1942 at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia (Army Service Forces Replacement Training Center; acreage 7,534; troop capacity 2,143 Officers & 38,427 Enlisted Men -ed). Col. Charles A. Pfeffer was assigned as the unit’s Commanding Officer and assumed immediate charge of the unit upon […]
Introduction & Activation: Headquarters 82d General Hospital Camp White, Oregon 4 September 1942 General Orders No. 1 Activation of 82d General Hospital: In compliance with War Department Letter AG 320.2 (7-14-42) MR-M-GN, dated July 16, 1942, and Section II, General Orders Number 80, Headquarters Ninth Service Command, […]