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, Inactivated^[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

External links

[1] "93rd Evacuation Hospital (Motorized)". Archived from the original on 2019-10-22.

[2] "Oran, Algeria". 2014-05-15. Archived from the original on 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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