Flight instructor badge U.S. Air Mail Wings Width: Height: Hallmark: Pin/Clutch: Contributor: Date Added: Note: Russ Wilson Collection 07/09/2023 While these aren't military wings, they were generally worn by military pilots. The first US Air Mail routes were flown almost exclusively...
The Philippine Constabulary Air Corps was established on January 2, 1935 and then subsequently was renamed the Philippine Army Air Corps in 1936. They were made up of Philppine pilots flying US aircraft. They defended the islands during the Japanese invasion. They were reconstituted after the war...
Flight instructor badge U.S. Air Mail Wings Width: Height: Hallmark: Pin/Clutch: Contributor: Date Added: Note: Russ Wilson Collection 07/09/2023 While these aren't military wings, they were generally worn by military pilots. The first US Air Mail routes were flown almost exclusively...
Germany, to medically support this action (also the2d Evac Hospwas established in Zülpich –ed). At the time of the Rhine River crossing, 6 Evacuation Hospitals were open in support of the First US Army:
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...
The organization embarked for North AfricaAugust 21, 1943on US Army Transport“Thomas H. Barry”(ex-liner Oriente) which departed for the Mediterranean region carrying 6,500 troops consisting of Infantry, Air Corps, Military Police elements, and 2 General Hospitals. The ship was to rendezvous wi...
airfields were handling all First United States Army casualties and often C-47s were to be seen taking off with three types of casualties: the light ones to be hospitalized in France – the medium ones going to England – and the long term cases going to Paris for transhipment to the ZI...
A plan was being worked out in June-July 1945 to concentrate all Russian nationals now treated at US Army Hospitals in one single General Hospital outside the Seine Section. Until such a plan was operative, small numbers of patients could be disposed of by transfer to a Russian Hospital at...
“Buzz Bombs”. It was quite frightening waiting to find out when this flying bomb was going to stop and fall. Since the Army needed us elsewhere, we moved to a new site at Heerlen, Holland, 18 October where we were tasked with providing medical care for the 30th Infantry Division. I ...
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, ...