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Background Information: Religion and Morale: Freedom of Religion and of Religious Belief is part of the doctrines included in the US Government’s philosophy. It must therefore be extended to the soldier and proper respect extended to his personal religious convictions. Apart from the different field agencies chiefly responsible for morale in the United States Armed […]
Background Information: Wartime evacuation of sick and wounded personnel from overseas Theaters involves problems quite different from those encountered in peacetime because of the volume of traffic and the abnormal transportation conditions! As reported before, the United States Army had not made adequate advance plans, and much had to be done in developing facilities and […]
Introduction: Many agencies of the War Department were involved in the actions required to provide the US Armed Forces with the necessary ‘Hospitalization and Evacuation’, the War Department General Staff (G-4 Division), the Office of The Surgeon General, the Air Surgeon, the Ground Surgeon, the Surgeons of the different local Service Commands, as well as […]
The article lists major Military Hospitals active during the Asia-Pacific War which were part of the following Theater Commands such as: United States Army Forces China, Burma, India (USAFCBI), United States Army Forces, China Theater (USAFCT), United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE), United States Army Forces in Australia (USAFIA), United States Army […]
The European Theater of Operations which was to conduct the US Army’s largest and most complex land campaign of WW2 and complete the destruction of Nazi Germany, had rather modest beginnings! In agreement with its Allies, the United States Government decided to deal with ‘Germany first’ … The initial objective was to establish Army Forces […]
The article lists major Military Hospitals active in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO). It does also include minor Theaters such as: Africa-Middle East Theater (AMET), Bermuda Base Command (BBC), Caribbean Defense Command (CDC), Greenland Base Command (GBC), Iceland Base Command (IBC), Newfoundland Base Command (NBC), Persian Gulf Command (PGC), US Army Forces in Central […]
Background Information: In time of war Hospitalization and Evacuation are essential to the Armed Forces. Military Hospitals are provided for the treatment of military personnel while being sick or injured. Casualties were given emergency treatment at a series of medical installations established in the forward areas of combat zones. In order to furnish as near […]
Background Information: The US Navy operated its first Hospital Ship during the years of the Tripolitan War (1801-1805). In June 1804, a small vessel, in fact a 6-foot ketch named ‘Intrepid’ was fitted as a floating Hospital to receive sick and wounded for medical treatment. The very first official Hospital Ship was a converted six-wheeler […]
Background Information: Evacuation of wounded and injured personnel should be efficient and organized! Beginning with the moment that a man is wounded at the front, there must be a continuity in his handling and treatment until he is again fit for release from control of the Medical Department. There is a constant sorting of all […]
Overview: In addition to the numerous packs and containers issued by the Medical Department for the storage and transportation of items in the field, a number of additional packs and containers were developed by individual units to serve a specific purpose within the organization. The aim of this article is to look at the development […]