93rd Evacuation Hospital (United States)
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 – Pretralia, Sicily
- August 1943 – San Stephano, Sicily
- September 15, 1943 – Paestum, Italy
- October 2, 1943 – Montella, Italy
- October 1943 – Avellino, Italy
- October 24, 1943 – January 9, 1944 – Piano de Ciazzo, Italy
- January 1944 – Naples, Italy
- January 23, 1944 – Anzio, Italy as part of Operation Shingle[3]
- January 29, 1944 – Nattuna, Italy with the U.S. 95th Evacuation Hospital
- 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 St Maxime, France
- 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 Weimar 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
- Dr. Quinby DeHart Gurnee
Operations and Battles
Operation Husky
Operation Shingle
Operation Dragoon
Battle of the Bulge
Colmar Pocket
References
- "93rd Evacuation Hospital (Motorized)". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22.
- "Oran, Algeria". 2014-05-15. Archived from the original on 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
- "[93rd Evacuation Hospital]". stimson.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
- "[93rd Evacuation Hospital]". stimson.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
- Genelius, Joseph William; Swope, Thomas, Joseph William Genelius Collection, Thomas Swope, Legacies: Stories from the Second World War, retrieved 2021-09-05
- 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
- Dupy, Cleo A.; Stout, William, Cleo A. Dupy Collection, Owen Reynolds, AARP, Oklahoma, retrieved 2021-09-05
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