93rd Evacuation Hospital (United States)

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The 93rd Evacuation Hospital was a make-over of the 61st Surgical Hospital and operated through World War II, Vietnam, and the Gulf War.

Service in World War II[]

The 61st Surgical Hospital was a 100-bed field hospital. It was converted in 1942 to a 400-bed semi-mobile evacuation hospital with a staff of 40 doctors, 43 nurses, and 6 administrative officers and organized as the 93rd Evacuation Hospital (Motorized).[1]

Timeline[]

  • 1942–1943 – Training at Fort Meade, Maryland
  • April 1943 – Embarkation at Camp Shanks, Orangeberg, New York
  • April 15, 1943 – Depart for North Africa aboard USS Mariposa
  • April 23, 1943 – Arrival at Casablanca, Morocco
  • May 1943 – Relocated by train to Oran, Algeria at Camp Goat Hill[2]
  • June 1943 – Tizi, Algeria
  • July 1943 – Palm Beach, Algiers, Algeria
  • July 13, 1943 – Gela, Sicily in Operation Husky
  • July 25, 1943 –
  • August 1943 –
  • September 15, 1943 –
  • October 2, 1943 – Montella, Italy
  • October 1943 – Avellino, Italy
  • October 24, 1943 – January 9, 1944 –
  • January 1944 – Naples, Italy
  • January 23, 1944 – Anzio, Italy as part of Operation Shingle[3]
  • January 29, 1944 – with the
  • April 17, 1944 – Caserta, Italy
  • Additional locations in Italy
  • August 9, 1944 – Naples, Italy and embark
  • August 15, 1944 – Operation Dragoon D-Day H-6 landing
  • Additional locations in France
  • Ardennes, France - Battle of the Bulge
  • December 19, 1944 – Bischwiller, Germany
  • April, 1945 - Dachau Concentration Camp
  • May 8 - July 8, 1945 - Germany
  • December 12, 1945 - Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, Deactivated[4]

Personnel[]

  • Colonel Currier, Commanding Officer
  • Major Thompson, Executive Officer
  • Major Franklin George Fry, Chief of Medicine and Registrar
  • Chaplain McMillan
  • Lt. D'Imperio
  • Major Etter, Evacuation Officer
  • Joseph William Genelius,[5] Medic, Technician Five
  • Jeanne A. Carter Wells,[6] Nurse, First Lieutenant
  • Cleo A. Dupy,[7] Corporal

Operations and Battles[]

Operation Husky
Operation Shingle
Operation Dragoon
Battle of the Bulge
Colmar Pocket

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "93rd Evacuation Hospital (Motorized)".
  2. ^ "Oran, Algeria". web.archive.org. 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  3. ^ "[93rd Evacuation Hospital]". stimson.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  4. ^ "[93rd Evacuation Hospital]". stimson.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  5. ^ Genelius, Joseph William; Swope, Thomas, Joseph William Genelius Collection, Thomas Swope, Legacies: Stories from the Second World War, retrieved 2021-09-05
  6. ^ Wells, Jeanne A. Carter; Seter-Berman, Julie, Jeanne A. Wells Collection, Annette Gray, Douglas County History Research Center, Douglas County Libraries, retrieved 2021-09-05
  7. ^ Dupy, Cleo A.; Stout, William, Cleo A. Dupy Collection, Owen Reynolds, AARP, Oklahoma, retrieved 2021-09-05

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