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Introduction & Activation: The 48th Field Hospital was officially activated on 10 September 1943 at Camp Ellis, Table Grove, Illinois (Army Service Forces Training Center; total acreage 17,503; troop capacity 1,795 Officers and 24,654 Enlisted Men –ed), per Letter, War Department, AGO, File AG 322, dated 31 August 1943, OB-I-SPMOU-M, dated 3 September 1943, and […]
Introduction & Activation: Zone of Interior Back in March 1943, a mere handful of men came to Fort Dix, Wrightstown, New Jersey, to start training which would eventually blossom forth into a well rounded, compact unit designated the 15th General Hospital (activation must have taken place sometime in 1943, and most probably at Fort Dix, […]
Activation & Training: The 114th Evacuation Hospital was officially activated on 17 February 1944 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi under T/O & E 8-581 (dated July 1943), with Lt. Col. Ray E. Currie assuming command upon activation. For administration and training purposes, the new unit was attached to the 24th Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, Special Troops, […]
D-Day > 6 June 1944: medical sections of the naval Beach Battalions were ashore by H + 1 hour on Utah Beach and evacuation of casualties was already being carried out by H + 2 ½ hours. The 2d Beach Battalion, consisting of 9 Officers and 72 Navy Corpsmen had evacuated approximately 75 casualties before […]
Friday, 1 December 1944: Pacific Ocean. We passed a large convoy last evening and the swells are making a few of the new Nurses sick. The rest of the day was uneventful. Saturday, 2 December 1944: Pacific Ocean. A great many cargo planes passed overhead all day on our route to Leyte, but no convoys […]
Questions: What is the value of my Medical Department item? Can you appraise my Medical Department item? Do you hold service records or documents relating to my relative’s service with the Medical Department? Can you provide information about my relative’s unit? Can I use the images in your Photo Gallery / the text in this […]
Introduction: William G. Garner was born July 2, 1906 in Forsyth County, Georgia, to James J. Garner and Martha M. Barrett. He had 7 siblings; 2 brothers – James H. and Robert G., and 5 sisters – Mary E., Sallie J., Clemmie H., Effie M. and Martha A. Garner. His main occupation was being a […]
Introduction: I was born in 1923 in northern Minnesota into a family of Danish immigrants. All of my Grandparents, both sides, were born and raised in Denmark, immigrating to the United States as young adults, so my Mother and Father were First Generation Americans. At age 18, I left home and went to St. Paul […]
Introduction: More than half a century after it ended, World War 2 remains the most total and destructive conflict in human history. It involved all the major industrial countries, wrought unparalleled destruction, and it targeted civilians to an unprecedented extent. The unprovoked attack of December 7, 1941 on Pearl Harbor united the nation under President […]
Introduction: Bernard Cymerman met my grandmother, Leokadja (Liba) Grynfarb, through a match-maker and they married in Warsaw in 1908. She obtained her diploma from the Czar’s School of Midwifery, Warsaw Chapter, and practiced as a midwife. Their only child, Herman/Henry, was born January 22 / February 6, 1910 (Julian/Gregorian calendar). Henry’s interest in medicine was […]