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Viet Duc Hospital, largest centre of surgery in Vietnam. Vietnam National Children's Hospital; 108 Hospital (or Army Central Hospital 108) Private
Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Vietnam War vary widely. ... 44.5% of civilians admitted to hospitals between 1967 and 1970 were wounded by mines or ...
The 95th Evacuation Hospital (Smbl) was a 320-bed air conditioned facility offering area medical support to U.S. Military units without organic medical support in the area around Da Nang, Vietnam. The hospital also provided medical care to the Free World Military Assistance Forces and civilian war casualties.
In official correspondence, troop lists, etc. they would often be referred to as the XXth Surgical Hospital through the end of the Vietnam War (and the start of the TV series M*A*S*H) 2nd Surgical Hospital, Lai Khe , Republic of Vietnam , March 10, 1970 [ 127 ]
Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) were U.S. Army field hospital units conceptualized in 1946 as replacements for the obsolete World War II-era Auxiliary Surgical Group hospital units. [1] MASH units were in operation from the Korean War to the Gulf War before being phased out in the early 2000s, in favor of combat support hospitals .
The United States Army Medical Command, Vietnam (USAMEDCOMV) provided Echelon/Role 3 Health Service Support to units of the United States Army, Vietnam (USAV). It was a Table of Distribution and Allowances organization created by consolidating the staffs of the 44th Medical Brigade and the USAV Surgeon's Office.
It is a big center of cadres training and scientific research in the country. The hospital has 3,500 beds and 4,300 staff. [1] [2] During Nixon's Christmas bombing, Operation Linebacker II, on December 22, 1972, American bombs struck the hospital, obliterating the building and killing 28 hospital staff members and an unconfirmed number of patients.
On 27 February 1969 a People's Army of Vietnam rocket hit LCU-1500 while it was loading at the Bridge Cargo Ramp killing 13 crewmen. On 30 June 1970 NSA Danang was deactivated and on 1 July new Army-Marine service support agreements went into effect. [6] In April 1972 all US Navy facilities in Danang were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam ...