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Introduction & Activation: The Medical Detachment of the 253d Infantry Regiment (one of the three Infantry Regiments pertaining to the 63d Infantry Division -ed) was activated June 15, 1943 at Camp Blanding, Starke, Florida (Infantry Replacement Training Center; acreage 152,672; troop capacity 2,157 Officers and 58,570 Enlisted Men -ed), and assigned to the 63d Infantry […]
Activation & Introduction: The 224th Airborne Medical Company was formally activated on 15 April 1943, as an organic part of the 17th Airborne Division (also activated 15 Apr 43 –ed), at Camp Mackall, Hoffman, North Carolina (Airborne Center, troop capacity 2,640 Officers & 27,000 EM –ed), by the Commanding General, Second United States Army, according […]
Introduction & Activation: Medical Gas Treatment Battalions were developed in the pre-war years as a type of non-divisional medical unit consisting of a Headquarters, 3 Clearing Companies, with each of the latter subdivided in 2 Bath and 4 Treatment Sections, whose task was to bathe and treat gas casualties and to provide them with non-contaminated […]
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 & Activation: The 45th Portable Surgical Hospital was activated as of 7 June 1943, per Letter, AG 322 (5-26-43), OB-I-SPMOU-M, Subject: Constitution and Activation of Portable Surgical Hospital, dated 31 May 1943, at Camp White, Medford, Oregon (Division Camp, 49,638 acres; troop capacity, 1,884 Officers & 35,557 Enlisted Men –ed), comprising 4 Officers and […]
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 […]
Activation: The 3d Medical Command Headquarters & Headquarters Company was constituted 21 December 1928 in the Regular Army as the 3d Auxiliary Surgical Group. Activation took place on 5 May 1942 at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas (the largest Army Post in the continental United States; total acreage 23,592; troop capacity 719 Officers & 24,825 Enlisted Men […]
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 […]