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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.

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).

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
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 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

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, Medic, Technician Five
Jeanne A. Carter Wells, Nurse, First Lieutenant
Cleo A. Dupy, Corporal
Dr. Quinby DeHart Gurnee

Operations and Battles

Operation Husky

Operation Shingle

Operation Dragoon

Battle of the Bulge

Colmar Pocket

Vietnam War

The 93rd Evacuation Hospital was established at Long Binh Post in December 1965.

In mid-April 1971 the facility was closed and the unit returned to the U.S. at the end of April. During its time in South Vietnam, the hospital treated 73,023 patients, including 9,353 battle casualties.

References

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