The unit finally received orders to active duty overseas in March 1944, and was moved to the New York Port of Embarkation. In the interim however, personnel from the organization spent 23 days at Camp Kilmer, Stelton, New Jersey (Staging Area) which, unlike other periods at US Army Camps,...
Unofficial insignia of the 280th Station Hospital as it appeared on the Unit’s History held in the US National Archives. Activation and Training: The280th Station Hospitalwas officially activated at the Army Service Forces Unit Training Center, Camp Ellis, Table Grove, Illinois on25 June 1943pe...
After a month at Cp. Atterbury, the large ‘deuce’ of the Second United States Army SSI was removed and the green clover leaf and red triangle of the XIII Corps became the current shoulder insignia. After this change came a truck trip from Atterbury to the wilds of West Virginia, entai...