Station Hospital No. 15was constituted in July 1923 and allotted to the Seventh Corps area. It was organized on paper atDes Moineson29 August 1924, and then finally redesignated as the115th Station Hospitalon29 June 1929. By General Order No. 52 of the Seventh Service Command, the115th S...
The organization’s first overseas location wasTilshead, Wiltshire, where it was put through a staging program. Housing facilities were provided in the form of Nissen huts, with bathing and toilet set up in separate hutments. Upon arrival the camp was found in a very dirty condition but an ...
Once ashore, we began a seven-mile march inland to the large assembly area where we spent our first night on the continent. Walking along the beach we saw the shattered hulks of the invasion crafts, pillboxes and coastal fortifications torn apart by the hail of shell fire that the Navy ha...
On25 November 1940, permission was granted by the Secretary of War for the formation of a General Hospital unit sponsored by the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which would be officially known as US Army General Hospital Unit No. 58.Dr. Frank R. Bailey, MC, O-410134,...