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Introduction & Activation: The Medical Detachment of the 70th Tank Battalion was activated on 1 January 1941 at Fort George G. Meade, Baltimore, Maryland (Army Ground Forces Training Center: acreage; 13,683, troop capacity; 85 Officers & 2,006 Enlisted Men –ed), but did not receive its proper personnel until 14 February 1941, at which time 2 […]

Introduction & Activation: The 47th Medical Squadron was first constituted on 7 January 1939 in the Regular Army and designated the 4th Medical Squadron (Mechanized) and activated at Fort Knox, Louisville, Kentucky (Armored Replacement Training Center & School, overall acreage 107,148, troop capacity 3,489 Officers & 57,048 Enlisted Men –ed) on 1 February of the […]

Introduction & Activation: The ‘basic’ mission of the US Quartermaster Corps (QMC) was to procure, store, and distribute – food, clothing, and individual and organizational equipment, as well as general supplies and all fuels and lubricants (except aviation gasoline) – used by all the US Armed Forces. Moreover, the QMC procured and trained horses, mules, […]

Introduction: The Medical Laboratory was designed to provide the Army medical service with facilities that were immediately available for certain types of laboratory supplies; supplemental laboratory examinations, and epidemiological and sanitary investigations. Among its specific functions were: routine water analyses, special examinations of meat, food, and dairy supplies, investigation of epidemics and epizootics, distribution of […]

Early History: The story of the 814th Hospital Center began some weeks before its activation (1 Jan 45). Colonel Emery E. Alling, O-16545, MC, (CO > 48th General Hospital), was relieved of his command on 18 December 1944 and ordered to proceed to the United Kingdom Base to study the Hospital Centers established there in […]

Introduction & Early History: As carried out in the ZI hospitals, reductions were made in staffs of numbered hospitals serving overseas. In compliance with a G-1 directive, the Surgeon General’s Office in March 1944 not only reduced the ratio of ANC personnel in Station (T/O & E 8-560) and General (T/O & E 8-550) Hospitals, […]

Introduction & Activation: The 316th Station Hospital was activated at Cp. George A. White, near Medford, Oregon (US Army Division Camp, 49,638 acres, troop capacity 1,884 Officers & 35,557 EM, construction initiated 25 Feb 42, dedicated 15 Sep 42). Activation was based on General Orders No. 37, Headquarters, Ninth Service Command, Ft. Douglas,  Utah. The […]

Introduction & Activation: The 307th Station Hospital was activated at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia (Medical Replacement Training Center, Quartermaster Replacement Training Center, and Army Service Forces Replacement Training Center –ed), on 15 April 1943, by the Commanding General, Third Service Command, per authority contained in Letter: “Activation and Inactivation of Medical Units”, File AG 320.2 […]

Activation: The 306th Station Hospital was activated in the United States on 15 April 1943 under the command of Lt. Colonel Maurice C. Davidson, MC, O-20108. Under Lt. Colonel Davidson’s experienced guidance the organization progressed from a unit in training in the Zone of Interior to an operating Station Hospital, performing its assigned duties in […]

Introduction & Activation: Following a request from the Surgeon General, the 300th General Hospital was formed in spring of 1940 as a reserve unit authorized by the Board of Trustees of Vanderbilt University under the leadership of Hugh J. Morgan. It consisted primarily of Doctors and Nurses from Vanderbilt University and the Nashville, Tennessee, community. […]