WWII US Army Serial Numbers: Meaning in the First Digits The U.S. Army began issuing serial numbers to help avoid mixing the records of people with the same name. (A genealogist’s dream come true!) When we dig a little deeper into the number itself, we can learn a bit about the pe...
By the end of April, the 5th Evac was among several of the US Army Evacuation Hospitals which would serve both the combat forces and the non-combatants. Thereafter, the unit was to aid and support transit RAMP patients at Gotha airfield, while the45th Evacuation Hospitalwould become a tempo...
Dental Service – the dental clinic continued to function as an integral part of the Battalion, giving necessary dental attendance to all members of its command, other Army units in the area, and Allied and enemy PW personnel. At various times the Dental Officers were placed on TD with other...
There were no important difficulties during the initial installation phase. The British Billeting Officer, Captain Whitehead, was most helpful in billeting the personnel of the unit and familiarizing the MAC Officers with British Army procedures. The hospitality of the English people, in whose homes ...