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Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri Ozarks.The main gate is located on the southern boundary of the city of St. Robert.The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Wood (former Chief of Staff) in January 1941.
It was activated on 25 January 1943 as the 62nd Medical Battalion, Motorized, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. On 15 September 1943 the battalion was recognized and re-designated as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 62nd Medical Battalion, the 578th Ambulance Company, the 501st Collecting Company, the 502nd Collecting Company ...
Fulton State Hospital - Fulton; General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital - Fort Leonard Wood; Golden Valley Memorial Hospital - Clinton; Hannibal Regional Hospital - Hannibal; Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital - Columbia; Hawthorn Children's Psychiatric Hospital - St. Louis; HCA Midwest Division - Kansas City; Heartland Behavioral ...
South of Interstate 44, Highway 17 hugs the western edge of Fort Leonard Wood, passes near Laquey, and circles south of the post until it runs out of the county and eventually joins Highway 32 in Roby. Missouri T runs north from Highway 17 at Waynesville to Swedeborg, where it meets and ends at Highway 133 about halfway between Richland and ...
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, 17 July 1994 [97] 95th Evacuation Hospital. Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 3 December 1945 [98] Danang, Republic of Vietnam, 9 March 1973 [99] 96th Evacuation Hospital, Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia, 16 December 1945 [100] 97th Evacuation Hospital, Camp Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 23 November 1945 [101]
On August 4, 1955, American Airlines Flight 476, a Convair CV-240 flying from Tulsa to New York crashed while attempting an emergency landing at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, after the No. 2 engine caught fire. While descending the right wing caught fire and eventually failed, crashing in a forest 1 km NW of the airport.
South of Interstate 44, Highway 17 hugs the western edge of Fort Leonard Wood, passes near Laquey, and circles south of the post until it runs out of the county and eventually joins Highway 32 in Roby. Highway T which runs north from Highway 17 at Waynesville to Swedeborg, where it meets and ends at Highway 133 about halfway between Richland ...
Technology Park at Fort Leonard Wood in St. Robert is the first technology park in the nation to be located on an active Army post. [29] It houses the MRP Business Center, which was created to be a catalyst for partnerships between the military, corporations, and academia. [30]