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The Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) was a military training program instituted by the United States Army during World War II to meet wartime demands both for junior officers and soldiers with technical skills. Conducted at 227 American universities, it offered training in such fields as engineering, foreign languages, and medicine.
When it started, the Replacement and School Command consisted of about 166,000 officers and men, and it reached its peak in May 1945 with 481,000 personnel. [ 2 ] The Command operated Replacement Training Centers (RTCs), especially Infantry Replacement Training Centers (IRTCs), in an effort to train new recruits to replace combat casualties.
Apothecary (/ ə ˈ p ɒ θ ə k ər i /) is an archaic English term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons and patients. The modern terms 'pharmacist' and 'chemist' (British English) have taken over this role.
10 December – Channel 4 launches a high-definition television simulcast of Channel 4 on Sky's digital satellite platform, after they agreed to contribute toward the channel's satellite distribution costs. 2008. 20 February – Box Television announces that The Hits would be replaced with a Channel 4-branded music channel called 4Music. The ...
Jane Kendeigh (March 30, 1922 – July 19, 1987) was a US Navy flight nurse.In 1945 she became the first Navy flight nurse in an active combat zone, [1] serving at Iwo Jima in the Pacific.
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World War II recruiting poster for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. An Engineer Combat Battalion (ECB) was a designation for a battalion-strength combat engineer unit in the U.S. Army, most prevalent during World War II. They are a component of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
An approach was then made to Montgomery, who agreed to release 351 Sherman tanks from British stocks. He could afford to do this because the British Army had amassed a reserve of 1,900 Shermans in the UK that had been acquired under Lend-Lease. It was decided to allocate the entire American production to the US forces until they built up a ...