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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 […]

Activation and Training: The 280th Station Hospital was officially activated at the Army Service Forces Unit Training Center, Camp Ellis, Table Grove, Illinois on 25 June 1943 per GO No 7, HQ, Sixth Service Command. At the time of activation, Lieutenant Colonel Howard W. K. Zellhoefer, MC, was appointed as the Commanding Officer, with Captain […]

Introduction & Activation: The 250th Station Hospital was activated at Camp Phillips, Salina, Kansas (Division Camp; total acreage 44,078; troop capacity 1,920 Officers and 36,104 Enlisted Men –ed), on 25 February 1943. It subsequently moved to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey 28 December 1943, and departed for overseas the following day, 29 December 1943. The unit […]

Introduction & Activation: The 232d Station Hospital was officially activated on 25 February 1943 at Camp Maxey, Paris, Texas (Infantry Training and Division Camp, total acreage 36,683, troop capacity 2,022 Officers and 42,515 Enlisted Men -ed) under T/O 8-560 dated 22 July 1942. For training and administration purposes, the organization was initially under the supervision […]

Introduction & Activation: The 1,000-bed 220th General Hospital was activated at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington (Army Ground Forces Training Camp, total acreage 90,870, troop capacity 3,542 Officers & 63,727 Enlisted Men –ed), as of 0001 hours, 28 September 1944. The unit’s CO was Colonel Charles L. Maxwell, MC, O-6217. Authority and references for the new […]

Introduction & Activation: The 188th General Hospital was activated 25 June 1943 at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Arkansas (Infantry Replacement Training Center, acreage 42,124; troop capacity 2,596 Officers & 44,077 Enlisted Men –ed) with Colonel Martin R. Reiber, MC, O-9165, commanding (from Buffalo, New York). Activation was pursuant to authority contained in General Orders […]

Introduction & Activation: Life of a US Army Hospital in the European Theater of Operations went on surprisingly much like that in America. Except for close home and community contacts, hospital personnel found themselves going through most of the daily tasks of a regular ‘Army Post’ in the Zone of Interior. Problems of morale and […]