(at the suggestion of The Surgeon General most Hospital Ships commissioned after spring 1944, were named for deceased Army Medical Officers and Nurses. Before they had been designated with names (e.g. Acadia, Seminole, Larkspur, etc), while the Navy gave theirs symbolic names (such...
The disadvantages are analyzed and single out the ways of perfection in work of the troop echelon of medical service in modern conditions of reforming of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.S V Kul'nevUS Army Medical Corps Leadership Development Program Working Group. The US Army Medical...
Early mobile sections included Laboratories and Clinics mounted on British-built Bus Ambulances converted by the Ordnance Department on behalf of the US Army Medical Department (this was prior to the selection of GMC 2 1/2-Ton Trucks for conversion to Medical Vehicles)Later on, specially modified ...
A Handy Guide to “FIRST AID for the Injured”, prepared from the Official First Aid Manual, US Army & Based on Methods Used by the US Army Medical Corps, Foreword by Maj General James C. MAGEE, Surgeon General, US Army, Illustrated with Diagrams & Photographs, Whitman Publishing Company,...
Photo ofMajor William E. Barfield, Commanding Officer, 326th Airborne Medical Company(101st Airborne Division). Early History & Activation: Like many other Airborne units of the US Army, the 326th Airborne Medical Company can trace its history back to the First World War. The326th Medical Com...
note: the Royal Victoria Hospital (the British Empire’s oldest military hospital) was returned at 1200 hours, 19 July 1945, with ceremony by the United States Army to the Royal Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Hood, Director General, RAMC, received the key to the building...
(i.e. without protection from the US Navy or Coast Guard). It was during the first hours on board the ship that many members of the 100th received their first medical procedures in the Army; issuing “overseas shots” to those passengers that had somehow been overlooked by the port staff...
With the closing down of several Hospitals, it was necessary to combine some medical facilities, such as General Dispensaries and Dental Services. Happy faces! Infantry, Armored, Airborne, and Army Air Force Officers earn a trip home. After being wounded in action, they received the necessary pr...
After being inducted onMay 29, 1942, atFort Sheridan, Illinois, Arthur took his basic training with the US Army Medical Department at Camp Grant, also in Illinois. He once told his wife in a letter,“the Medical Corps is a heck of a place to put a butcher !”Private A. R. Mann, ...
The Medical Department was organized into the Medical Corps, the Dental Corps, established in 1911, the Veterinary Corps, established in 1916, the Medical Administrative Corps, established in 1917, the Sanitary Corps, also established in 1917, and the Army Nurse Corps, established in 1901. ...