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experience of a total of 320 medical patients, 941 surgical patients and 1058 outpatients, with a total of 1261 admission and 1021 dispositions. Seven hundred and fifty-nine of these patients were not from transfer by direct admissions, and the facility was operating as a surgical as well as an evacuation hospital. Hospital personnel adapted, finding that the combined operation of a tent evacuation hospital and a
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casualties. The range of professional capabilities available (including four full-time dispensaries and
Neurology, Dermatology, Special Radiologic Procedures, Oral Surgery, Psychiatric Consultations, Orthopedic Surgery, Neuro—Surgery, General Surgery Services) made the 95th Evacuation Hospital a referral center for difficult and sophisticated cases in Northern
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In a period of 71 days the personnel of the 95th
Evacuation Hospital built one 400-bed “tent” hospital from the ground up on Red Beach, incorporating the use of parts of a MUST unit, operated it under combat conditions and moved completely to another location without interruption of its mission, and
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Evacuation Hospital (Smbl) was a 320-bed air conditioned facility offering area medical support to U.S. Military units without organic medical support in the area around Da Nang, Vietnam. The hospital also provided medical care to the Free World Military Assistance Forces and civilian war
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action in the nearby areas requiring the personnel to put in arduous 12-hour shifts of patient care and then sleep or stand watch on the perimeter during off-hours. By the end of June, the hospital had experienced an additional 1215 admissions and 1188 outpatients for a total of 2476 admissions in
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Officers: Col. Paul K. Sauer, Lt. Col. Hubert L. Binkley (commander after Sauer was wounded in the 7 February bombing.) Chief of Surgical Service Lt. Col. Grantley W. Taylor, Chief of Medical Service Col. William Comess, Laboratory and Pharmacy Officer Capt. Harry J. Schneider, X-ray
168:. Offering advice, they helped plan the future move of their respective sections onto the new site (a move that was scheduled to start by 4 July). By the last week of June, Red Beach personnel were reduced to a minimum. The patient census was also reduced as low as the situation would allow.
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Despite supply shipping delays, construction of the first 100 beds was completed by 10 April. By 30 April, the hospital was 99 percent filled, and additional beds were rapidly being added. On 8 May, 300 beds were reported operational. May 27 saw a 400-bed hospital with a census of 240 and an
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By 1 April, the vertical construction was initiated consisting of two-by-four frames for tent wards. Factored into the initial construction was the directive to ensure proper surgical conditions in the tropics for patients with traumatic injuries. There was some uncertainty. By conserving
184:. Active “on the job” training in all specialties of medicine was performed by medical corps officers and Vietnamese physicians as well. Medical, surgical and consultative assistance was provided to the Duy—Ton and Provincial Hospital of Da Nang on a regular basis.
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bombs on the hospital in an effort to evade two
British planes, rendering the hospital inoperable, killing 28 people, and wounding an additional 60. Among the dead were two officers, three nurses, 16 enlisted men, a Red Cross worker, and two other personnel.
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Evacuation Hospital landed in Italy 9 September 1943, it was the first U.S. hospital established on the European continent in World War II. In addition to Salerno, the hospital made two other amphibious landings (Anzio and Southern France).
137:. The initial phase of construction included the preparation of defensive fortifications, perimeter wire and tentage for billets. During the initial phase the unit provided its own mess, electrical power, potable water and hospital laundry facilities.
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arrived with the unit's equipment and the majority of its personnel six days later, the members of this advance team had completed a design plan for the site and begun construction of an access road with assistance from the
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The actual move began with one third of the staff moving to the new site from 4–5 July. The remainder of the staff then moved approximately 60 patients. By the evening of 7 July, the hospital reported 323 beds operational.
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Not only was it necessary for the staff to build and run this tent hospital, they were also required to use their spare time to visit a new site under construction on My Khe Beach between
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Officer Capt. Mario C. Gian, Chief of Dental
Services Major Lewis A Imerman, Chief Anesthetist Capt. Marshall A. Bauer, Principal Chief Nurse Capt. Evelyn E. Swanson.
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The 95th
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The hospital was used as the basis for the fictional 510th Evacuation Hospital in the American television series
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construction resources, the unit was able to construct a tropical structure suitable for air-conditioning.
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February 7, 1944 – Bombing killed 26, wounded 60, rendered hospital nonfunctional
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The Medical Department: Medical Services in the Mediterranean and Minor Theaters
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August 12, 1944 – Departed Pozzuoli, Italy, aboard 2 LCIs (#188 and an unknown)
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July 8, 1943 – Ain el Turck, Algeria in support of Operation Husky (Sicily)
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Air Force "Outstanding Unit Award with Valor" Vietnam 1972-1973
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During the following month the unit was continually harassed by
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September 19, 1942 – Camp Breckinridge, Morganfield, Kentucky
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during World War II, the Vietnam War, and in Germany.
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316:January 8, 1945 – Departed for Sarrebourg, France
208:April 2, 1943 – Camp Shanks, Orangeburg, New York
292:September 3, 1944 – Beaumont (Beaumont-de-Aspre)
401:List of former United States Army medical units
280:August 15, 1944 – Cavalaire, France, D-Day H-8
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295:September 5, 1944 – St. Amour, France
265:June 1, 1944 – Cori (Cisterna), Italy
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501:. Casemate Publishers. p. 167.
325:April 29, 1945 – Ebermergen, Germany
241:January 17, 1944 – Unit commendation
214:April 24, 1943 – Casablanca, Morocco
149:(MUST) operating room was feasible.
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259:April 10, 1944 – Unit commendation
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247:January 31, 1944 – Nettuno, Italy
313:January 3, 1945 – Mutzig, France
256:March 13, 1944 – Carinola, Italy
235:November 28, 1943 – Capua, Italy
220:July 7, 1943 – Unit commendation
157:the first 63 days of operation.
232:October 9, 1943 – Naples, Italy
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939:Friedenberg, Zachary (2004).
382:Meritorious Unit Commendation
322:April 8, 1945 – Kist, Germany
217:May 24, 1943 – Oujda, Morocco
943:. Texas A&M Univ. Press.
166:Marble Mountain Air Facility
17:The 95th Evacuation Hospital
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262:May 23, 1944 – Itri, Italy
923:. New York: Random House.
919:Monahan, Evelyn (2003).
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368:Germany (Rhineland)
349:Operation Avalanche
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182:Military Region I
84:U.S. Seventh Army
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