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.

1 Service in World War II
2 Timeline
3 Personnel
4 Operations and Battles
5 External Links

[edit] Service in World War II

The 61st Surgical Hospital was a 100 bed field hospital. It was converted to a 400 bed semi-mobile evacuation hospital with a staff of 40 doctors, 43 nurses, and 6 administrative officers.

[edit] 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 the USS Mariposa
April 23, 1943 - Arrival at Casablanca, Morocco
May, 1943 - Relocated by train to Oran, Algeria at camp Goat Hill
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
January 29, 1944 - Nattuna, Italy with the 95th Evac
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
December 19, 1944 - Bischwiller, Germany
Munich, Germany

[edit] 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