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44th Portable Surgical Hospital Portable Surgical Hospital, End of World War II Pacific Theater [10] 45th Portable Surgical Hospital Shanghai, China, 13 December 1945 [ 135 ]
Colonel Percy J. Carroll, Chief Surgeon of the US Army Forces, Southwest Pacific Area. In February 1942, Colonel Percy J. Carroll, the Chief Surgeon of the US Army Forces, Southwest Pacific Area, found that he had problems integrating large 400 to 750-bed field and evacuation hospitals into troop flow as forces advanced because of the underdeveloped transportation infrastructure and terrain in ...
403rd Combat Support Hospital USAR 341st Medical Group USAR 159th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital LA ARNG 475th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital KY ARNG 807th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital USAR 912th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital USAR 345th Combat Support Hospital USAR – Converted to a MASH in January Task Forces Evac (Provisional) 12th Evacuation ...
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 predecessor of Seventh Army was the I Armored Corps, which was activated on 15 July 1940 at Fort Knox, Kentucky.With the goal of stopping German expansion in Europe and Africa, it was decided that the first operation for United States Army forces would be to assist the British in driving German forces from North Africa.
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), officially known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951, was the U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on 113 acres (46 ha) in Washington, D.C. , it served more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the United States Armed Forces .
The anti-war sitcom about the doctors and nurses who worked the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, ran for 11 seasons. Set in Uijeongbu, South Korea, the series was ...
The Army Service Forces was one of the three autonomous components of the United States Army during World War II, the others being the Army Air Forces and Army Ground Forces, created on 9 March 1942. By dividing the Army into three large commands, the Chief of Staff , General George C. Marshall , drastically reduced the number of officers and ...