Index
–A–
AAF. See Army Air Forces.
AAFSC. See Army Air Forces Service Command.
Aaron, Lt. Col. Margaret E., 487
Acciarella, 274
Accra, 54, 65, 66, 77, 78, 81, 82, 83, 84, 89, 90
Adjusted Service Rating Score (ASRS) 522-23, 533, 543-46, 548
Admissions, hospital. See Hospital admissions.
Adriatic Base Command (ABC) , 480, 497, 499, 501, 510, 528, 529, 530, 549, 550. See also Adriatic Depot.
Adriatic Depot, 349-50, 489, 510, See also Adriatic Base Command.
Affiliated units. See Evacuation Hospitals, numbered, 8th, 9th, 16th, 27th, 38th, 51st, 56th, 59th, 77th; General Hospitals, numbered, 3rd, 6th, 12th, 17th, 21st, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 33rd, 36th, 37th, 38th, 43rd, 45th, 46th, 64th, 70th, 300th.
Africa, 7, 46, 49, 73, 78-79, 104, 156, 164, 267
Africa-Middle East Theater of Operations, 80, 85, 103, 488, 497, 498, 509
Africa-Middle East Wing, Air Transport Command, 66, 82-83, 89. See also Central African Wing, Air Transport Command; North African Wing, Air Transport Command.
Agrigento, 157, 158, 164, 167, 169, 181
Aid Stations, 76, 114, 125, 153, 159, 160, 268, 278, 293, 302
battalion 2, 3. 111, 118, 153, 227, 255, 270, 271
beach, 119
crash, 12
provisional, 76
regimental, 255
in Winter Line campaign, 240
Aidmen, 1, 2, 60, 146, 233, 236, 268
Ain et Turk, 188
Air conditioning, use of, 76, 77, 86, 99
Air Force, U.S. See Army Air Forces.
Air routes, transatlantic
securing of, 7-8
to Africa and the Middle East, 60
Air-sea rescue teams, 184
Air Service Command, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 184
Air Transport Command, 8-9, 10, 65, 89, 137, 182
commanding officer of, 47
and evacuation to the United States by way of Greenland, 22
hospital facilities of, in the Middle East, 81, 103
and jurisdiction over Newfoundland base hospitals, 25
operations of
in Bermuda, 28
in Newfoundland, 25
and staffing of Atlantic bases, 8
Airborne Division, 82nd, 150, 152, 153-54, 156, 157, 165, 230, 231, 232, 267
Airborne Medical Company, 307th, 150, 232, 326
Airborne Task Force, 1st, 373, 374, 375, 380, 386, 387, 395, 414
Aircraft, spraying of. See Brazilian Port Sanitary Service; Malaria control.
Airplanes. See B-17’s; C-47’s; Evacuation, by air; L-5’s; P-40’s, Piper Cubs.
Alban Hills, 270, 292, 296, 304
Albano, 270, 273, 281, 295, 296
Alcohol, use of in hot climates, 99
Alcoholics, treatment of, 98
Alessandria, 523
Alexander, Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G., 123, 147, 159, 220, 222, 239
Alexander, Col. Stuart F., 210, 369
Algeria, 43, 62, 82, 104, 180, 181
Algeria-French Morocco Campaign, 104-21, 134, 141, 177, 218, 552
combat operations, 108-10
medical operations, 105-11
Alghero, 175
Algiers, 73, 82, 107-15, 118, 122, 123, 136, 138, 139, 146, 167, 174, 177, 180, 181, 188, 189, 206, 213, 355, 363
Algonquin, 397
Allied Armies in Italy, 290. See also Army Groups, 15th.
Allied Control Commission (ACC) , 347, 355, 361-62, 364, 365, 519, 542
Allied Expeditionary Forces, Supreme Headquarters of, 541
Allied Force Headquarters (AFHQ)
and Allied Control Commission, 519
and captured German hospitals, 477
chief of transportation for, 340, 504
and hospital ships for Salerno operation, 226
and litter bearers for Winter Line, 240
medical section of, 177-79, 212, 323
and operations, 119, 123, 139, 166, 177, 178, 179, 180, 224
and problems of rank among medical officers, 177-78
Allied Force Malaria Control School, 355
Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory (AMGOT) , 169, 260, 326, 360, 361, 362, 363, 519-20. See also Region III, AMG.
and Italian laws governing prostitution, 258
Allied Military Governor of Sicily, 220
Amazon River, 49
Ambulance companies, 224. See also under Medical Companies.
Ambulance control points, 247, 302, 304
Ambulance loading posts, 4, 233
Ambulance runs, excessive length of, 127, 132, 138, 245-46, 302-03
Ambulances. See also Evacuation by land, by ambulance.
capture of, 125
in Delta Service Command, 68
deadlined at Volturno River, 248
equipped for emergency crashes at airports, 84
loss of, at sea during Gela landings, 155
shortage of
in Liri Valley, 292
in North Africa, 195-96
in Tunisia, 138
for Tunisia Campaign, 127-28
in Winter Line campaign, 240
American Red Cross, 11, 14, 362
AMEW. See Africa-Middle East Wing, Air Transport Command.
AMGOT. See Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory.
Amputations, traumatic, 143-44
Ancona, 510
Anderson, Maj. Gen. Jonathan W., 117
Anderson, Lt. Gen. K. A. N., 105, 122
Andrews, Lt. Gen. Frank M., 62
Andrews, Col. Justin, 67, 213, 354
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 57, 60, 61, 68, 81, 84
Angmagssalik, 19
Animal casualties, Rome-Arno Campaign, 314
Animal clinic, Middle East theater, 103
Animal strength, Fifth Army, 265
Animal transportation, 432
Animals, 11, 146, 174, 263-65, 319-20, 485. See also Horses, use of; Mules, use of; Veterinary Corps.
Anopheles gambiae. See Disinfestation, and anopheles gambiae; Malaria control.
Antiaircraft Artillery Brigades
45th, 415. See also Task Forces, 45.
71st, 538
Antilles Department, 42, 43, 44, 45
ANVIL. See Southern France Campaign.
Anxiety states. See Neuropsychiatry.
Anzio Campaign, 5, 239, 258, 266-88, 289, 291, 292, 311, 312, 313, 316, 335, 336, 553, 556
British hospital area, 274, 278
compared to support in mountains west of Garigliano River, 296-97
effect on psychiatric case rate, 256
evacuation from, 271, 277-80, 311
evacuation hospitals assigned to, 242
hospitalization in, 275-78
and malaria control school, 260
medical experience in Africa used in, 267
medical planning for, 267-68
medical support for, 269-88
projected casualty rate for, 268
serves as preparation for planning in Eastern Base Section, 206
shortage of hospital ships, 120
staging hospitals assigned to, 249
trench foot cases, 261-62
withdrawal of commanders from, for invasion of France, 267
Aosta Province, 526
Apennines, 240, 486, 489, 490, 519, 531, 553
Appian Way. See Highways, Italy, 7.
Arak, 86
Ardennes, 503
Argentia, 23
Armies
Fifth, 123, 149, 179, 188, 193, 211, 212, 215, 217, 221, 222-65, 266-88, 289-322, 323-65, 393, 409, 410, 415-56, 427n, 457-85, 486, 489, 490, 491, 494-504, 507, 511, 512, 515-20, 522-30, 535-41, 542, 543-44, 543n, 545, 548-49, 556, 557
Seventh, 138, 147, 149, 150-76, 181, 211, 220, 223, 253, 265, 299, 302, 319, 336, 366-414, 417, 424, 447, 486, 490, 505, 542, 543. See also Force 343.
Armored Corps, I, 148
Armored Divisions
1st, 105, 111-12, 113, 122, 124, 129, 131, 134, 148, 223, 238, 239, 243, 267, 272, 274, 284, 295, 296, 298, 300-301, 302, 320, 415, 418, 421, 428, 429, 458, 461, 462, 478, 523, 525
2nd, 105, 115, 117, 152, 156, 157, 267
Armored Medical Battalions. See Medical Battalions, 47th Armored and 48th Armored.
Armored Regiment, 66th, 117
Army Air Base, Newfoundland, 23
Army Air Corps. See Army Air Forces.
Army Air Forces, 8, 10-11, 31-32, 35, 44, 60, 66, 146, 175, 338, 349, 355, 358, 499, 515, 517-18, 530, 549, 550
and aid station at St. Leu, 114
and battle casualties from, treated in Delta
Service Command hospitals, 63, 68
dental service for, 317
and evacuation of patients to Naples, 502
and hospital equipment for, lost through enemy
action, 333
and hospital facilities for, in the Eastern Base Section, 190
and hospital on Seymour Island, 38
hospitals for, in Italy, 333
medical installations of, 137
medical organization for, in the Mediterranean, 181
represented at British-American malaria control committee, 212-13
represented at malaria control commission in West Africa, 90
responsibility for health of personnel, Bermuda Base Command, 27
Army Air Forces, numbered
Sixth, 38
Ninth, 62, 63, 65, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 80, 99, 151
Tenth, 60
Twelfth, 80, 105, 106, 114, 122, 123, 137, 138, 146, 181, 182, 193, 215, 296, 326, 327, 334, 423
Fifteenth, 182, 320, 326. 327, 334
Army Air Forces Service Command, 326, 334, 347, 349, 355-56, 359, 489, 497, 501, 510, 549
dental surgeon of, 358
surgeon of, 327
Army Epidemiological Board, 99
Army Forces in Central Canada, 31-32
Army Ground Forces, surgeon of, 324
Army Ground Forces Command, 62
Army Groups
15th, 147, 156, 220, 222-23, 239, 266, 290, 361, 423, 457
Army Middle East Air Force, 60, 62. See also Army Air Forces, numbered, Ninth.
Army Nurse Corps. See Nurse Corps.
Arnest, Col. Richard T., 106, 127, 132, 135, 148, 326, 363, 488, 489, 548
Arnim, Generaloberst Jürgen von, 124
Arno Campaign. See Rome-Arno Campaign.
Arno River line, 299, 302, 307, 339
Arno Valley, 486, 490, 496, 520, 530
Arzew, 111, 112, 113, 114, 149, 150, 188, 223
Ascension Island, 8, 49, 54, 55
Ashley, Colonel, 360
Asmara, 57, 58, 63, 69, 70, 84, 85
ASRS. See Adjusted Service Rating Score.
Asuncion, 54
Atabrine, 45, 165, 251, 316, 355, 372, 556
Atina, 239
Atlantic Base Section, 119, 180, 183-88, 204, 210, 213, 326, 338, 347, 348, 349, 488, 509
and development of medical supply system, 208
and local health authorities, 220
Atlantic bases 15-16
Atlantic Ocean, 105
Australia, 102
Austria, 323, 521-22, 523, 525, 538, 542. 549
Auxiliary Surgical Groups
2nd, 107, 110, 122, 127, 128, 154, 183, 225, 238, 249, 253, 263, 268, 282-83, 287, 310, 314, 358, 371, 374, 416-17, 449, 453, 537, 546
AVALANCHE. See Naples-Foggia Campaign; Salerno.
Aversa, 333, 340, 496, 529, 535, 540, 541
Axis armed forces, 62, 64, 104, 121, 124, 131, 554
Azores Base Command, 29
–B–
Baba Hassen, 122
Bagnoli, 327
Bahama Islands, 8
Balchen, Col. Bernt, 19
Banton, Lt. Col. Huston J., 119
Bari, 326-7, 333, 334, 489, 497, 510, 529, 548
Barker, Col. Marion H., 513
Barnes, Lt. Col. Asa, 354
Base Area Group, 6665th (Provisional) , 326, 327
Base Depot Companies. See Medical supply units,
Base Depot Companies.
Bassano, 525
Batch, Lt. Col. Joseph W., 542
Bathurst, 60
Batista Field, 44
Battipaglia, 230, 237, 336, 490
Battle casualties, 40, 293-94, 299, 310-11. See also Hospital admissions; Medical Department personnel; Noneffective rates.
in British hospitals, 120
captured by Germans in Tunisia Campaign, 125
collection of, at Salerno, 227
evacuation of
from Italy and Sicily, 206
to Naples for primary surgery, 284
and planning for Salerno, 226
by raft, across Volturno River, 233
to troop transport by small craft from Salerno, 227
number of
Anzio, 270, 271, 276-77, 283-84
Army Air Forces, 62, 63, 184, 342
Gela beach, 154-55
Liri Valley, 293-95
Northwest Africa, 107, 108, 111, 114, 115, 119, 121
Rapido River, 244
rerouted from overcrowded evacuation hospitals, 248
transported to beach at Salerno, 227, 230-31
Battle fatigue. See Neuropsychiatry.
Bauchspies, Col. Rollin L., 268, 369, 380
Bauxite, 41
Bay of Naples, 233
Beasley, Col. Charles H., 11
Bed ratio
in Atlantic defense areas, 9
in Persian Gulf Command, 86
Bed requirements in Atlantic base hospitals, 9
Bed strength, Table of Organization and Equipment, 9, 11, 15, 24, 25, 329, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 360, 395, 401, 403-04, 448
in Antilles Department, 44
in Atlantic Base Section, 183-86
in Eastern Base Section, 190, 190n
in Eastern Task Force, 107
in Fifth Army area, 249-50
in Mediterranean Base Section, 189
in the Middle East theater, 79, 84-85
in Newfoundland, 25
in the Panama Canal Department, 37-38
in the Persian Gulf Service Command, 77, 79, 85-86
Beds, shortage of, 144, 435, 445
and effect on rate of return to duty of psychiatric patients, 255
in Panama Canal Department, 37-38
at Salerno, 230-31
in Tunisia Campaign, 128
in Winter Line campaign, 241-42
Beecher, Lt. Col. Henry K., 211
BEF. See Brazilian Army units, Brazilian Expeditionary Force.
Bekkaria, 142
Belluno, 525
Benedict Field, 42
Benghazi Base Command, 64. See also Levant Service Command.
Bennett, Lt. Col. Austin W., 429
Benson, Col. Otis O., Jr., 327
Benzyl benzoate, 512
Beradinelli, Lt. Col. Stephen D., 67
Berlin, 321
Bermuda Base Command, 26-27
Bernadou, 115
Berrechid, 186
Berry, Col. Daniel J., 23, 369, 409
Biederman, Col. Albert A. 324, 487, 542, 549
Billick, Col Eugene W., 80
Bishop, Col. Harry A., 126, 372, 399
Bizerte, 73, 121, 130-34, 142, 145, 149, 156, 168, 181, 188, 205, 206, 226, 341
Blackburn, Lt. Col. Estes M., 358
BLACKSTONE, 115
Blesse, Brig. Gen. Frederick A., 172, 179-181, 184, 193, 201, 223, 225, 231, 265, 275, 324, 333, 334, 363
Blesse, Col. Henry S., 275
Blida, 109
Blood, whole, 26, 144, 253, 314, 409, 450, 483, 513, 556
delivery of, 284
Blood banks, 144, 253, 284, 314, 352-53, 540. See also Medical Laboratories, numbered, 15th General.
Blood plasma, 26, 143, 144, 149, 240
Blood Transfusion Units
6707th, 409
Bologna, 484, 499-500, 517, 525, 529, 531, 539, 540
Bolton, Lt. Col. Eldon L., 463
Bolzano, 523, 525, 526, 535, 541
Bolzano conference, 541-42
Bomber Command, IX, 73
Bomber Command, North Africa, 181
Bomber Squadron, 9th (H), 10
Bomber squadrons, 320
Bone, 121, 132, 137-38, 142, 149, 190, 208
Bonomi, Ivanoe, 519
Borgarnes, 12
Bou Guedra, 117
Bougie, 122
Bouiseville, 189
Bowen, Capt. Joseph J. 259, 260
Boyle huts, 135
Bradley, Maj. Gen. Omar, N., 127, 130, 152, 267
Brand, Maj. Maxwell R., 355
Brandon, Maj. Thomas C., 57, 58
Brazil, 8, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 55, 60, 83
Brazilian Air Force units, 491
Brazilian Army units. See also Brazilian medical units.
Brazilian Expeditionary Force (BEF) , 51, 299, 417, 417n, 418, 429, 439, 458, 461, 462, 466, 523, 525, 527
Infantry Division, 1st, 418, 424, 425, 429, 431, 453
Infantry Regiments
1st, 424
11th, 424
Brazilian Department of Public Health, 53, 90
Brazilian Government, and control of anopheles gambiae, 53-54, 89
Brazilian medical personnel, 47, 336, 469, 471, 527
Brazilian medical units
dispensaries, 50
hospital, military, 48
Medical Battalion, 1st, 429
Brazilian personnel, hospitalization of, 491, 498
Brazilian Port Health Service, 90
Brazilian Port Sanitary Service, 53
Breeches buoy, use of, in evacuation, 240
Brereton, General Lewis H., 60, 62, 65, 80
British Air Force. See Royal Air Force.
British Army Middle East Forces, 94
British Army units. See also British medical units.
Army Groups
21, 542
Armies
First, 105, 106, 121-22, 123, 124, 129, 130, 131, 136, 142, 189, 223
Eighth, 62, 72, 73, 80, 104, 123, 124, 127, 129, 131, 147, 152, 155-56, 160, 173, 174, 223, 230, 232, 240, 245, 267, 272, 289, 290, 291, 292, 302, 313, 342, 415, 417-18, 421, 422, 423, 424, 457, 461, 462, 467, 523, 542
Corps
10, 223, 230, 232, 233, 234, 238, 239, 243, 289-90
13, 291-92, 417-18, 419, 420, 421, 423, 424, 458
Divisions
1st Infantry, 151, 267, 273, 295, 419
4th Indian, 245
5th Infantry, 243, 274, 289, 295
7th Armored, 223, 230, 231-32, 234, 243
8th Indian, 424
46th Infantry, 223, 230, 234, 239, 243, 244, 290
56th Infantry, 223, 230, 234, 239, 243, 273, 274, 289-90
Brigades, 11th Infantry, 109
Commandos
6th, 109
British Consultant Malariologist, 355
British dental equipment, use by American dental officers, 101
British dental facilities, use by American dental officers, 100
British destroyers, 105, 110, 113
British Director of Medical Services. See Cowell, Maj. Gen. Ernest M.
British fixed bed ratio, 122-23, 182
British Government
agrees to establishment of U.S. base on Ascension Island, 8
securing of beef supply from New Zealand
through, 102
British Guiana, 8, 41, 43, 44, 47, 48. See also Guianas.
British hospital area, Anzio, 274
British hospital buildings, used by American medical units, 12, 73
British hospital carriers, 168, 283
British hospital ships, 79, 98, 108, 120, 167, 271, 283, 342
British medical supplies, surplus of, in Iceland, 17
British medical units, 151
casualty clearing stations, 123
dispensary, 49
dressing stations, 268
hospitals, 29, 43, 57, 58, 64, 71, 100, 107, 122, 123, 334
at Anzio, 271, 274, 277, 278, 282
and care of Ninth U.S. Army Air Force personnel, 72-73
in Libya, 72-73
in the Middle East, 103, 120, 555
movement of, to avoid bombing at Anzio, 271, 277
withdrawal of, from Iceland, 12-13
British medical units, numbered
Casualty Clearing Stations
1st, 120
8th, 120
Field Ambulance
141st, 276
Field Transfusion Unit, 12th, 268, 284
Hospitals
31st General, 189
61st Combined General, 59
94th General, 120
Motor Ambulance Convoy, 6th, 138
British nurses, attend psychiatric nursing course, 219
British paratroopers, 121
British surgical team, III
British Navy. See Royal Navy.
Brooke, General Sir Alan, 104
Brothels. See Prostitution; Venereal disease.
Brown, Lt. Col. James W., 66
Bruce, Col. Charles O., 525, 548-49
Bruck, 533
BRUSHWOOD, 117
Bubonic plague, 30, 83, 91, 99, 106, 556
Burma, 85
Burnet, Col. Burgh S., 180
Butler, Brig. Gen. Frederick B., 375-76
–C–
C and R Sections, 357
Cady, Col. Duance L., 324
Caffey, Brig. Gen. Benjamin F., Jr., 366
Cagliari, 175
Caiazzo. See Piana di Caiazzo.
Cairo, 56, 60, 65, 68, 77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 91, 94, 95, 99, 102, 104, 245
Cairo Area 61-62
California, 31
Calore River, 233
Caltanissetta, 159, 167, 169, 181
Camardella, Lt. Col. Ralph A., 248, 279, 445, 536, 541
CAMEL Force, 373, 374, 379, 380
Camino, 239
Camp, Col. Benjamin L., 489
Campbell, Capt. Robert J., 285
Campoleone Station, 296
Campomorto, 304
Camps
Amirabad, 64
Huckstep, 63, 68, 81, 84, 87, 103
O’Reilly, 44
Pershing, 10
Canadian Air Force. See Royal Canadian Air Force.
Canadian Division, 1st, 147
Cannon, Lt. Gen. John K., 423
Cap de Fedala, 117
Capetown, 57
Capua, 230, 233, 234, 237, 241, 244, 246, 248, 249, 527
Cardiovascular diseases, 86
Caribbean Defense Command, 34, 324
Caribbean Sea, 60
Carmack, Col. Joseph, 487
Carpi, 527
Casablanca, 84, 85, 92, 105, 106, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 180, 182, 206, 208, 209, 226, 326, 335, 339, 342, 343, 488, 498, 504, 509
Casablanca Conference, 147
Casanova, 277
Caserta, 237, 241, 242, 251, 252, 263, 290, 311, 312, 325, 326, 329, 333, 335, 336, 337, 488, 489, 494, 495, 496, 525, 529, 530, 535
Cassino, 239, 243, 245, 246, 247, 252, 262, 267, 270, 285, 287, 289, 316
effect of, on psychiatric case rate, 256
operations, 249, 275, 277, 282, 287, 289, 291, 292, 293, 556
Veterinary Corps at, 263-64
Castagneto, 319, 337, 490, 495, 529
Castiglioncello, 303
Casuals. See Adjusted Service Rating Score.
Casualty clearing hospitals. See Evacuation hospitals; Evacuation Hospitals, numbered.
Catarrhal jaundice, 26
Caves, use of, for hospital sites, 236, 430
Cayey, 42
Cement, use of, 209
Center Task Force, 107, 113, 115, 120
Center Town Command, North Africa Service Command, 82
Central African Command, 89
Central African Route, Air Transport Command, 70
Central African Wing, Air Transport Command, 66, 70, 82, 83, 84, 101, 102
Central Civilian Medical Depot, 508
Central Dental Laboratory, Naples, 358
Cerami, 159
Cesarò, 160
Chain of evacuation. See Evacuation, chain of.
Chateau Thierry, 397
Chemical Warfare Service, 331
Chemicals, shortage of, 512
Cherqui, 117
Cheyne, Col. D. Gordon, 220
China–Burma–India theater, 72, 85, 86, 98, 498
China theater, 84
Chronic gastritis, 451
Churchill, Col. Edward D., 144, 162, 171, 210-11, 253, 350, 351-52, 408, 409, 450, 487
Churchill, Winston S., 104, 266, 272, 367, 519
Cisterna, 270, 271, 273, 274, 292, 296, 297, 303
Cividale, 549
Civil Affairs Section, Allied Force Headquarters, 219-20
Civilian health authorities, co-operation with, in North Africa, 62
Civilians, evacuation of, from Anzio, 278, 279
Civilians, medical treatment for, 9, 23, 33, 52-53, 57, 58, 63-64, 68, 79, 95, 103, 113-14, 155, 165, 260, 332, 387. See also Allied Military Government; Central Civilian Medical Depot.
at Anzio, 278
in Bermuda, 27
in Brazil, 51-53
in Canada, 33
in Italian hospitals, 57
and native workers in Egyptian hospitals, 57
in Panama, 39
and typhus in the Middle East, 94
responsibility for, 57
Civilians, used in hospital work, 554
Civitavecchia, 300-301, 303, 305, 313, 337, 490, 491, 495
Clark, General Mark W., 104, 123, 222, 266, 277, 299, 366, 423, 457, 462, 520
Clearing companies, 3, 4, 110, 125, 157, 215, 227, 228, 248, 249, 291, 296, 312. See also under Medical Companies.
Clearing platoons, 110, 111, 160, 233
and evacuation hospital, 164
used as expansion units, 165, 249
250-bed, 248
Clearing stations, 3, 4, 5, 110, 111, 119, 127, 129, 149, 153, 154, 155, 157, 161, 170, 172, 227, 228, 230, 241, 243, 244, 256, 282, 293-94, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 303, 307
beach, 230
decline in return to duty of psychiatric patients from, 256
difficulty of keeping up with moving troops, 302
divisional, 146, 163, 174, 230, 232, 237, 241, 245-46, 248, 253, 255, 268, 270, 274, 278, 299, 307
and handling of surgical cases at Gela beach, 154
routine dental work performed at, 263
value of establishing early, 143
Climate
adaptation to, in Canada, 33
in Brazil, 53
in Central Africa, 79
effect of
on construction in Panama Canal Department, 37
on dental rate in the Middle East, 100-101
on disease rate in Italy, 250, 257
on hospital disposition in Iceland, 12
on personnel, 75
on supplies in Persian Gulf Command, 88
in Egypt, 68
in Eritrea, 70
factors overrated, 67
heat-produced illnesses, 99
in Middle East theater, 76, 79, 88, 99, 100
in Newfoundland, 25
problems
of cold, 21, 25, 26, 33, 236, 240, 425, 430, 441-42, 444, 490
of heat, 53, 67-68, 73, 76, 79, 88-89, 96-97, 99, 100, 196
of rain, 37, 53, 240, 257, 386, 395, 426
and use of British tropical-type tents, 73
and use of salt tablets, 99
Coastal Base Section, 368, 372, 399, 400, 412. See
also GONAD Base Section; Delta Base Section.
Coates, Col. John Boyd, Jr., 542
Cocke, Col. Joseph G., 324, 401
Cold injury, 33
Cole, 115
Collecting-clearing companies, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 224. See also under Medical Companies.
Collecting-clearing stations, 268, 270
Collecting companies, 3, 4, 110, 111, 118, 119, 125, 149, 227, 231, 233, 240, 244, 245, 248, 249, 251, 293, 295, 303, 311-12. See also under Medical Companies.
Collecting stations, 143, 153, 298
bombing of, 295
damaged by storm, 243
eliminated where possible at Salerno, 236-37
Collesano, 159
Colombia, 34
Combat Conditioning Camp, 216-17. See also Medical Companies, 6706th Conditioning.
Combat exhaustion. See Neuropsychiatry.
Combat wounds. See Hospital admissions, for combat wounds.
Combined Chiefs of Staff, 299
approves Salerno invasion plans, 222
approves Sicily invasion plans, 147
plans invasion of Northwest Africa, 104
Communications, 139
effect of failures of, on evacuation, 250, 305-06
by jeep courier, 306
by pigeon, 306
Conditioning and rehabilitation, policy of, 357
Conditioning Center, Eastern Base Section, 217. See also Station Hospitals, numbered, 105th.
Conditioning Company, 6706th, 217, 357
Connel, Maj. Frank H., 537
Constantine, 122, 124, 127, 132, 136, 137, 138, 142, 180, 182, 190, 206, 208, 215, 226, 337
Continental Advance Section, 402-04, 407, 412
Convalescence and rehabilitation sections, 357
Convalescent Hospitals
2nd, 189, 216, 217, 392, 392n, 393, 394, 406
3rd, 225, 238, 242, 249, 291, 304, 306, 307, 316, 326, 329, 416, 439, 441, 525, 538, 545
Convalescent wards, 169
Cook, Col. William F., 327
Copper sulfate spray, 45-46
Corby, Col. John F., 106, 138, 177, 178, 182
Corleone, 158
Cormons, 525
Coronia, 162
Corps
II, 105, 106, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127-46, 148, 152, 156, 158, 159, 160, 165, 167, 171, 173, 190, 204, 211, 215, 238, 239, 243, 245, 246, 253, 260, 261, 263, 289, 291, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 303, 317, 318, 415, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 424, 425-28, 429, 430-31, 432, 435-39, 440, 442, 444, 445, 448-49, 457, 458, 460, 461, 466-68, 471, 475, 477, 479, 482, 483, 485, 525
IV, 296, 301, 302, 303, 317, 415, 417, 419-20, 421, 422-23, 424, 429, 430, 431-34, 435, 439-40, 444, 446, 447, 448, 453, 454, 457, 458, 460, 461, 462, 463-66, 467, 469, 475, 477, 479, 482, 483, 484, 526
VI, 223, 224, 230, 232, 233, 238, 239, 266-88, 289, 292, 295, 296, 298, 299, 300, 301, 303, 312, 366-95, 405, 409, 423, 515
Provisional (Sicily) , 156, 157, 158, 167
Corps Malaria Control Committee, 287
Corsica, 174, 175, 181, 339, 342, 488, 497, 499, 500, 502, 509, 510, 556
Cortina d’Ampezzo, 535, 536, 538, 549
Costa Rica, 39
Cowan, Col. Egbert W. D., 217, 263, 317
Cowell, Maj. Gen. Ernest M., 106, 177, 179, 201, 212, 324, 362
Cox, Col. Wesley C., 37
Crichton, Col. W. H., 363
CRIMSON, 31
Crittenberger, Maj. Gen. Willis D., 296, 301, 415, 423
CRYSTAL, 31
Cunningham, Admiral Sir John, 266
Cutaneous disease, 79
–D–
Dakar, 53, 54, 66, 78, 81, 83, 84, 85, 89, 90, 91, 99
Dallas, 118
Darby, Col. William O., 270
Darby’s Rangers, 270
Darlan, Admiral Jean-Francois, 108, 110, 121
Davenport, Col. Walter P., 43
David (Panama) , 38
Davis, Col. Thomas F., 453
Davis, William A., 363
Dawley, Maj. Gen. Ernest J., 223, 230
Debridement, radical, 253
Delta Base Section, 403, 404, 407, 408, 412, 504. See also Coastal Base Section.
Delta Service Command, USAFIME, 61, 63, 64, 68, 71-72, 79, 81, 89, 92, 102
de Mendonca, Fabio Carneiro, 53
Demonstrations. See Educational devices.
Denit, Maj. Gen. Guy B., 180
Dent, Capt. Paul L., 110
IV Corps, 483
in the South Atlantic theater, 54
Dental Corps, 101-02, 413, 483-84
in the Africa-Middle East Theater of Operations, 80
in the Atlantic defense area, 9-10
in Brazil, 54
in the Iceland Base Command, 18
in Italy, 262-63, 287, 317-18, 357-58, 452-53, 483-84, 514-15
in the Middle East, 100-102
in the Persian Gulf Command, 100
in Sicily, 173-74
in the South Atlantic theater, 54
Dental dispensaries, use of trailers for, 452-53
Dental equipment
and Chest MD Number 60, 54, 145
and lack of portability, 145
for II Corps and Fifth Army clinics, 263
Dental laboratories
divisional, 262-63
mobile, 263
at Mostra Fairgrounds, 332, 358
shortage of, at Anzio, 287
use of trucks for, 263
Dental Laboratory, Central, 358
Dental personnel, 24, 59, 262-63, 287, 357-58, 453, 515
in Air Transport Command, 100-102
in Brazil, 54
detached from Army hospitals, 218
morale of, 101-02
in Ninth Air Force, 65
and nonprofessional assignments, 100, 146, 174, 262
in North African theater, 217-18
in Pan American Highway Medical Service, 39
ratio to troop strength, 100, 218
and rotation policy, 54
transport of, by air, 101
unexpected need for replacements in North Africa
and Sicily, 208-09
and use of British facilities, 100-101
Dental prosthetics, 146, 173-74, 262-63, 287, 317, 406, 413, 453, 484
Dental standards for induction, 218
Dental surgeon, North African theater, duties of, 217-18
Dental techniques, German, 527
Dental x-ray, clinics lacking in facilities for, 263
Dentists, Brazilian, 54
Depot Companies. See Medical supply units, Depot Companies.
Desert coolers, 99
Destroyers, 115-18
Destroyers-for-bases agreement, 8, 22-23, 41
Devers, Lt. Gen. Jacob L., 267, 323
Dewey, Lt. Col. Leonard A., 215, 354
and infectious hepatitis, 257
nonspecific, 98
in Tunisia Campaign, 214-15
Dieppe, 108
Diets, special, 144
DIME Force, 152, 153, 154, 155
Diphtheria, 26
Disease rates, 250. See also Hospital admissions; Noneffective rate.
in Iceland, 17-18
in Persian Gulf Service Command, 86
Diseases, 111, 165. See also by name.
in Army Air Forces, 182
chronic, among Brazilian workers, 53
in Greenland, 21
in Iceland, 17
in Iran, 82
intestinal, 26, 76, 79, 145, 483, 530
in Middle East, 88
preventable, lack of outbreaks of, in North Africa
and Sicily, 215-16
subtropical, 172
tropical, 52, 78, 83-84. See also by name.
Disinfestation, See also Malaria control.
and anopheles gambiae, 53-54, 89-90
of bedbugs, 172
delousing
of civilians in the Middle East, 95
instruction in, 74
in North Africa Theater of Operations, 216
and shortage of equipment for treating pack animals, 265
disinsectization officer, Air Transport Command, 90
fleas, in Sicily, 172
larviciding, 45-46, 91, 213, 260
for malaria control, 45-46, 53-54, 83-84, 89-92, 212-15
and prevention of typhus, 94, 262
and use of
copper sulfate, 45-46
methyl bromide (MYL) , 362
Paris green, 356
Dispensaries, 28, 29-30, 35-37, 42, 43, 45, 48, 52, 58, 59, 77, 78
in Atlantic bases, 9
in Brazil, 52
capacity
25-bed, 32
120-bed, 29
in Iceland, 11-12
in Libya, 58
in Newfoundland, 25
operated by AAF medical detachments, 32, 137
operated by Corps of Engineers, 38
in Panama Canal Department, 35
in Persian Gulf Service Command, 76
types of
camp, 11-12
dental, 63
mobile, 278
station, 83
Djedeida, 121
Djidjelli, 122
Dobbiaco, 523
Dog tags, 2
Dooling, Brig. Gen. Henry C., 34
Doolittle, Brig. Gen. James H., 105, 138
Dorchester, 19
Douglas Aircraft Corporation hospitals, 57-58, 64, 68, 69, 79
DRAGOON. See Southern France Campaign.
Drainage
and control of malaria, 45, 213, 214, 260
effect on trench foot, 285-86
at hospital sites, 275
quality of
at Anzio, 275
at Cassino, 285
in Levant, 71
Drainage systems, destruction of, by Germans in Italy, 260
Draper, Lt. Col. Calvin S., 315-16
Drugs. See by name.
Dubos, Col. Emeric I., 360
Dutch Guiana, 41, 43, 44. See also Guianas.
Dutch West Indies, 34
Dysentery, 60, 67, 77, 83, 98, 106, 145, 172, 201, 214, 249, 257, 316, 321, 353, 556
–E–
Eaker, Lt. Gen. Ira C., 267, 320, 423
EASCOM. See Eastern Command.
Eastern Base Section (EBS) , 132, 134, 138, 139, 180-81, 189, 190, 195, 196, 197, 201, 204, 205, 206, 208, 213, 217, 226, 337, 339, 348, 349, 369, 488, 509
Eastern Command, 320-22
Eastern Defense Command, 9, 11, 29
Eastern Task Force, 105-06, 111, 120, 122, 142
Eastern Town Command, 82
Echelons, of medical service, 211. See also Evacuation, chain of.
Edmund B. Alexander, 23
Eisenhower, Lt. Gen. Dwight D., 104, 123-24, 177, 178, 226, 266, 267, 323, 367, 486
Egypt, 57, 60, 61, 72, 73, 79, 81, 84, 87, 99
Egyptian Army, surgeon of, 62, 95
Egyptian Government, and venereal disease, 92
Egyptian Ministry of Public Health, 62, 94
Egyptian Sudan, 60
Eklund, Lt. Col. William J., 24
El Salvador, 39
Electric lamps, generator-driven, use of, 4
Elvins, Col. Richard E., 106, 138, 181, 327, 333
Emergency Medical Tag (EMT) , 2, 3, 5
Emily Weder, 397
EMT. See Emergency Medical Tag.
Engineer Battalion, 10th, 285
Engineer Shore Regiments
540th, 268
Engineers, Corps of, 12, 19, 23, 26, 31, 38, 39, 76, 89-90, 209, 260, 326, 329, 356, 361
at Atlantic bases, 9
in Canada, 30
and Eastern Base Section, 190
medical services for, 24, 26, 32, 38
in the Middle East, 99
in Newfoundland, 23
in the North African Theater of Operations, 209
operates own medical services, 38, 76
in Panama, 35
in Sicily, 160
England, 89, 105, 113, 124, 553
English Channel, 300
Enna, 158-59
Entomological detachments, from malaria survey
units, 213
Epidemics, civilian, in the Middle East, 99
Equipment. See Medical supplies and equipment.
Equipment and clothing study, for Winter Line
campaign, 286
Eritrea, 57, 60, 61, 68, 81, 87
Eritrea Service Command, USAFIME, 61, 68-70, 79, 81, 102
Eskimos, medical treatment for, 33
Essential Technical Medical Data Reports
(ETMD’s) , 179
ETMD’s. See Essential Technical Medical Data Reports.
Etna Line, 159
European Theater of Operations (ETU) , 11, 16, 84, 327, 399, 411, 412, 486, 504, 514, 518, 525, 533, 541, 542, 545, 546, 552, 555
boundaries of, 178
reduction of nurses in North Africa for transfer
to, 219
European Theater of Operations, United States Army (ETOUSA) , 531
Evacuation
from Antilles Department, 45
at Anzio, 271, 274, 279-80, 310-12
to the Azores, 30
in Brazil, 50-51
of Brazilians, 505
in Canada, 33-34
of civilians, 279
conversion of trucks for use as hospital train
cars, 133
from Eastern Base Section, 206
flexible policy in British hospitals, 123
from Gela beach, 154
holding facilities, 16, 164-65, 237, 307
in Iceland, 16
lengthening lines of, 157, 159, 303, 305, 306
from the Levant Service Command, 72
from Libya, 73
from the Liri Valley, 292-94
from the Mediterranean Base Section, 205
in Newfoundland, 25-26
in North Africa, 110-11, 115, 118-23, 186
officer, Fifth Army, 168
from the Panama Canal Zone, 40-41, 45
in the Persian Gulf Service Command, 77, 86-87
planning, 43, 108, 148-49, 163-64, 203, 226, 395, 499
policy, 16, 28, 40-41, 50, 79, 85-86, 123, 128, 165, 197, 204, 250, 334, 340-42, 404, 448, 504-05, 501-02, 532, 533, 543
problems, 12, 25, 33-34, 97-98, 392, 395
in the Rome-Arno Campaign, 303-10, 312
study of British methods in Tunisia, 223
in Tunisia Campaign, 73, 122-30, 137-38, 206
to the United Kingdom, 206
in the Volturno campaign, 240
in the Winter Line campaign, 240-43, 245
Evacuation, by air
along air ferry routes, 30-32
by airplane, 16, 22, 23, 25, 33-34, 41, 45, 50, 68, 73, 77, 78, 79, 83, 85, 86, 98, 106, 123, 132, 138-39, 140, 149, 155, 167, 168, 190, 204, 206, 226, 230, 279, 311-12, 321-22, 372, 392, 396, 397, 398, 404, 447, 448, 473, 490, 499, 502-03, 530-32, 532
by commercial airline, 28
by L-5, 460
Evacuation, chain of, 73, 137, 271
second echelon, 3, 73, 269, 274, 294
fifth echelon, 6, 16, 22, 25, 28-30, 40-41, 45, 50, 74, 77, 78-79, 83, 86-87, 97-98, 183, 186-88, 206, 249-50, 342-43
Evacuation, by land
by ambulance, 5, 16, 41, 45, 68, 73, 87, 111, 120, 123, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 138, 153, 163, 204, 244, 246, 247, 251, 274, 275, 292, 293, 294, 302, 372, 398, 404, 428, 432, 445-46, 447, 448, 460, 464, 466, 473, 479, 502
by British field ambulance, 107
by cable tramway, 433
by jeep, 120, 125-26, 134, 227, 274, 292, 293, 298-99, 426, 464, 466
by litter bearer, 129, 133-34, 161, 227, 236, 237, 240, 244, 274, 279, 293, 298, 386, 426, 428, 432, 433
by mule, 133, 161-62, 240, 426, 479
by ski litter, 430
by toboggan, 430
by train, 23, 34, 41, 77, 87, 204-05, 310-12, 342, 372, 398, 404, 448, 532
in British hospital trains, 123, 138
in hospital trains, 138, 167, 204-05, 250, 502, 503
in Michelin cars, 123
in prisoner of war trains, 506, 540
by truck, 125-26, 129, 133, 153, 167, 227, 464, 466
Evacuation, by water, 16, 196, 205, 312, 372, 373, 466
by British hospital ships, 167, 206, 226
by Dukws, 466
by LST, 149, 153, 167, 226, 271, 279, 311, 312, 396, 396n
by raft, 233
by ship, 16, 22, 28, 45, 68, 79, 166, 206, 372, 490, 506
by troop carrier, 97-98, 149, 167, 226
by weapons carrier, 293
Evacuation hospitals, 4, 5, 130, 144, 160, 163, 164, 186, 219, 244, 248, 253, 267, 304, 310, 312
300-bed, 111
400-bed, 4, 119, 127, 129, 132, 134, 163, 164, 165,
170, 183, 225, 237, 268, 277, 305, 307
750-bed, 4, 107, 120, 127, 132, 135, 164, 170, 190, 230, 237, 278, 305, 307
at Anzio, 282-84
and daily reports on number of patients read)
for disposition, 250
damaged by storm, 243
dental laboratories connected with, 262-63
and French ambulances, 251
late arrival of, in Sicily, 170
psychiatric treatment in, 145
value proved during Tunisia Campaign, 255
Evacuation Hospitals, numbered
8th, 119, 186, 225, 230, 231, 237, 242, 291, 304,
306, 307, 310, 416, 419, 436, 437, 442, 444, 454, 460, 471, 473, 475, 482, 523, 525, 545, 546
9th, 120, 124, 125, 126-27, 129, 132, 134, 139, 192, 193, 195, 197, 199, 299, 332, 342, 342n, 369, 378-79, 387, 388, 392, 402
11th, 119, 132, 155, 157, 158, 160, 162, 167, 183, 197, 199, 242, 277, 291, 299, 304-05, 307, 374, 380, 383, 388, 392
15th, 129, 132, 153, 156, 159, 160, 164, 167, 197, 199, 225, 237, 241-42, 243, 248, 275-76, 277, 304, 306, 307, 337, 416, 419, 437, 441-42, 469, 471, 475, 478, 482, 494, 500, 523, 525, 526, 529, 539, 540, 545
16th, 194, 225, 229, 231, 231n, 237, 242, 248-49, 252, 268, 291, 304, 306, 307, 337, 416, 417, 419, 436-37, 439n, 440, 469, 471-73, 475, 476, 526, 529-30, 545, 546
38th, 107, 113, 114-15, 120, 132, 139, 188, 190, 192, 196, 204, 225, 230, 231, 237, 242, 243, 277, 287, 291, 304, 307, 310, 416, 419, 439, 439n, 440, 471, 473, 475, 476, 523-25, 545
56th, 192, 195, 225, 230, 231, 237, 242, 248, 268, 271, 275, 277, 282, 284-85, 287, 291, 303-04, 306, 307, 337, 416, 436, 437, 444, 471, 475, 476, 480n, 525, 545
59th, 119, 164, 165, 199, 299, 304, 312, 336, 387, 392, 397
77th, 107, 113, 115, 120, 124, 125, 126-27, 129, 132, 144, 149, 171, 188, 190, 192, 193, 199, 204
91st, 120, 158, 164, 174, 189, 189n, 199
93rd, 155, 156, 159, 162, 167, 172, 172n, 197, 225, 230, 232, 237, 242-43, 268, 271, 275, 277, 284, 291, 299, 303-04, 305, 307, 374, 379, 392, 393
94th, 193, 225, 237, 242, 243, 246, 277, 278, 291, 304, 305, 306, 307, 337, 416, 419, 435, 436, 437, 441-42, 448, 471, 475, 476, 482, 494, 527, 529, 544, 545
95th, 193-94, 225, 229, 231, 237, 241, 242, 252, 268, 271, 275, 276, 283, 287, 299, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 331, 371n, 374, 388, 392, 393, 396
128th, 132, 145, 159, 162, 167, 197, 199. See also Surgical Hospital, 48th.
170th, 439, 440-41, 444, 458, 469, 473, 475, 476, 482, 525, 544, 545. See also Station Hospitals, 29th.
171st, 458, 458n, 469, 473, 475, 482, 498, 525, 544, 545
Exhaustion cases, 133, 255, 315
Exposure, at Salerno, 236
Eye clinics, 430-32
Eyeglasses, unexpected need for, in North Africa, 208-09
–F–
Farrell, Maj. Elliston, 90, 91
Fasani, 294
Ferryville, 217-18
Fever of undetermined origin (FUO), 173
Fevers, treatment of, at specialized facilities, 249
Fiala, Maj. Frank C. J., 347
Field Ambulance Company, 159th, 90
Field Artillery Battalions
697th, 422
698th, 422
1125th Armored, 424
Field Artillery Brigade, 13th, 386
Field Artillery Group, 35th, 406
Field hospital platoons, 73, 79, 153, 154, 170, 171, 248, 249, 253, 302, 307
Field hospitals, 4, 74, 76, 87, 149, 155, 160, 163, 225, 237, 282, 293, 294, 295, 297, 299, 304
50-bed, 70
200-bed, 86
and lack of combat experience, 170
in Middle East theater, 67
and retention of nontransportable patients, 253
Field Hospitals, numbered
4th, 71, 73, 84, 197, 199, 225, 333, 334, 497, 529, 530
10th, 132, 139, 155, 156, 157-58, 161, 173, 225, 237, 241, 246, 248, 291, 297, 299, 303, 373, 374, 378, 379, 384, 386, 387
11th, 154, 156-57, 159, 160-61, 162, 173-74, 225, 237, 238, 244, 263, 291, 293, 294, 297, 299, 303, 374, 379, 380, 382-83, 386, 387
15th, 70, 73, 84, 175-76, 199, 444, 450, 463, 466, 468, 473, 523, 525, 526, 530, 530n, 538, 545, 549, 558
Field Hospitals, numbered-Continued
32nd, 225, 237, 307, 333, 416, 426, 427, 428, 430, 440, 442, 453, 463, 469, 469n, 473, 478, 481, 483, 523-25, 526, 532, 544, 545
33rd, 225, 237, 268, 269, 271, 274, 275, 276, 277, 282, 283, 287, 297, 303, 416, 426, 427-28, 430, 453, 465-66, 468, 525, 545
35th, 333, 334, 497, 499, 527, 528, 529, 530, 541, 546
Fighter Command, 181
Finley, Lt. Col. Theodore L., 210
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company plantation, North Africa, 66
First aid
in Eastern Command, 321
instruction, in Sicily, 150
packet, 1
for plane crash victims, 84
stations at Winter Line campaign, 240
1st Special Service Force. See Special Service Force, 1st.
Fitzgerald, Brig. Gen. Shepler W., 66
Flinn, Lt. Col. James E., 411
Florence, 302, 307, 314, 488, 490, 494, 496, 497, 498, 499, 502, 503, 520, 525, 527, 529, 530, 531, 532, 535, 540, 541, 545, 546
Foggia, 182, 223, 232, 326, 334, 337, 497, 530, 550, 552
Fondouk, 129-30
Food inspection, by Veterinary Corps, 263, 359, 517, 551, 556
in Brazil, 54-55
in the Fifth Army, 485
in the Middle East theater, 102
in the South Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, 54-55
in the Tunisia Campaign, 146
Food loss, due to improper packaging, handling,
and storage, 218-19
Food poisoning, bacterial, 98, 316
Force 343, 148, 149-50. See also Armies, Seventh.
Foreign Liquidation Commission, 103
Formia, 293
Fort de l’Eau, 111
Forts
Amador, 38
Bell, 28
Brooke, 42
Simonds, 44
Fourth Fleet, 47
Fox, Brig. Gen. Leon A., 9; 95, 363, 364, 365
Francolise, 525
Franklin, Col. Daniel, 148, 164, 369
Franklin, Lt. Col. Joseph P., 180
Fredendall, Maj. Gen. Lloyd R., 105, 111, 123, 124, 127
Free Territory of Trieste, 549
French Army units
Armies
B, 367, 376, 381, 384, 387. See also French Army units, Armies, 1st.
1st, 376, 407, 413, 414. See also French Army units, Armies, B.
Corps
2nd, 384
Expeditionary, 238, 239, 243, 244-45, 251, 265, 289, 290, 291, 292, 294, 295, 299, 301, 302, 304, 312, 314, 318-19, 332, 335, 515
Divisions
1st Algerian, 367
1st Armored, 376
4th Moroccan Mountain, 289
9th Colonial, 367
French doctors, 113
French Equatorial Africa, 60
French Guinea, 66
French malariologists, on British-American malaria control committee, 213
French medical units, 304
evacuation of field hospitals by, 238-39
evacuation of forward hospitals by, 295
and hospital train, 138
and support of II Corps, 295
French scientists, and Typhus Commission, 95
French Somaliland, 61
French West Africa, 46, 66, 82, 99
Frew, Maj. Edith F., 369
Freyberg, Lt. Gen. Sir Bernard, 245
Frobisher Bay, 31
Fruit juice, medical value of, 99
Furth, 542
–G–
Gabes, 129
Gaffey, Maj. Gen. Hugh J., 152
Gafsa, 122, 125, 127, 129, 142, 144
Galapagos Island, 38
Gallo, Capt. Francis, 417
Gambia, 60
Gambut, 73
Gander Field, 23
Garigliano front, 273, 303-04, 318
Garigliano River, 235, 243, 244, 260, 266, 267, 270, 289, 291, 293, 296
Gas gangrene, 253
Gastritis, chronic, 451
Gastrointestinal disorders, 88, 98
Gastrointestinal service, 450
Gatun Lake, 41
GBC. See Greenland Base Command.
Gela, 152, 153-55, 156, 167, 169
General Depot, 6671st, 348
General Dispensaries, 63, 64, 69, 71, 225
5th, 187
6th, 189
8th, 189
General hospitals, 5, 9, 12, 79, 80, 191
600-bed, 42
1,000-bed, 68, 74, 77, 183, 188, 190, 225
General Hospitals, numbered
3rd, 192, 193, 195, 336, 397, 402, 411
6th, 180, 183, 205, 336, 337, 347, 444, 450, 481, 495, 496, 499, 500, 529, 540, 546
12th, 188, 332, 335, 336-37, 349, 448, 493-94, 529, 546
21st, 188, 190, 216, 329, 335, 336, 369
24th, 194, 197, 337, 471, 480, 490-491, 494, 502, 528-29, 530, 532, 546
26th, 190, 204, 208, 333-34, 497, 501, 502, 529, 546
33rd, 194, 196, 197, 336, 337, 493, 530, 546
37th, 194, 335, 481, 490, 496, 499, 500, 523, 528, 529, 530, 539, 540-41, 546, 548
38th, 63, 65, 68, 72, 73, 74, 77, 80, 81, 84, 85, 97, 102, 103
41st, 43-44. See also Station Hospitals, 359th.
43rd, 194, 339, 371n, 397, 402
45th, 183, 329, 490, 496, 499, 528, 529, 530
64th, 194, 335, 337, 447, 490, 491, 494, 527, 530, 550
70th, 194, 337, 448, 471, 473, 480, 494, 527, 529, 530, 546
161st, 45
210th, 38
218th, 38
262nd, 38
300th, 329, 335, 336, 339, 490, 496, 528, 529, 550
Geneva Cross, use of, 2, 139, 271, 288, 554
Genoa, 523
Georgetown, British Guiana, 44
German Army units
Army Group G, 375
Armies
Fourteenth, 273
Nineteenth, 381
Divisions
11th Panzer, 376
29th Panzer, 478
148th Grenadier, 462
German dental equipment, use of, 146
German doctors, Sicily, 162
German hospitals. See also Station Hospitals, numbered, 334th (Ger.) .
and capacity of, 476
and Fifth Army required to use, 477
Luftwaffe, 536
military, 304
and treatment of American casualties at the Rapido River, 244
German Medical Service, 476-78, 500, 535-39
German troops, 226
Germany, 47, 538, 542, 543, 549
Ghana. See Gold Coast.
Ghedi prisoner of war area, 536, 537, 538
Ghisonaccia, 497
Gilmore, Col. Hugh R.,’ 212, 259
Ginn, Col. L. Holmes, Jr., 148, 263
GOALPOST, 117
Goethals, Col. Thomas R., 180
Goldson, Col. Robert, 369, 542
Gorizia, 523
Gothic Line, 302, 416, 417, 418, 419-21, 425, 426, 435, 436, 457, 458, 467, 490, 513, 516
Goumiers, 332
Gowen, Lt. Col. Guy H., 369
Grant, Maj. Gen. David N. W., 66
Great circle route, 22
Great Falls, Montana, 31
Great Sound, Bermuda, 27
Greece, 65
Green Project, 55
Greenland, 18-19, 21-22, 30, 31, 32
Greenland Base Command, 18, 19, 22
Grosseto, 301, 306, 313, 314, 319, 337, 490, 495, 496, 502, 516, 517, 529
Guatemala, 38
Guatemala City, 38
Guenther, Lt. Col. Augustus J., 369
Guincarico, 307
Gulf of Gaeta, 295
Gulf of St. Lawrence, 31
Gullickson, Lt. Col. Herbert L., 102
Gurabo, 43
Gurley, Col. Webb B., 369, 413
Gustav Line, 238, 239, 243, 245, 247, 258, 265, 267, 270, 289, 292, 294, 303, 336, 340, 430
–H–
Halazone tablets, 215
Halstead, Lt. Col. James A., 450
Hamadan, 76
Hampton, Lt. Col. Oscar P., Jr., 409, 450
Hancock, Maj. Michael Q., 32
Hanser, Lt. Col Samuel A., 276
Hanson, Col. Frederick R., 145, 210, 253, 350, 409, 487, 514
Harmon, Maj. Gen. Ernest N., 115
Hartgill, Maj. Gen. William C., 324
Haverty, Capt. Eugene F., 279
Hawley, Maj. Gen. Paul R., 504
Health officer, occupied Germany. See Stayer, Maj. Gen. Morrison C.
Heat, prickly, 99
Heat exhaustion, 99
Heatstroke, 99
Heimstra, Capt. Fred A., 47
Helgafell, 15
Heliopolis Area, 61. See also Delta Service Command, USAFIME.
Heminway, Col. Norman L., 19
Hepatitis, infectious, 98-99, 216, 257, 350, 451
Highways, Italy
6: 238, 243, 244, 245, 246, 252, 270, 289, 290, 292, 296, 298, 299
7: 270, 289, 291, 292, 294, 295, 296, 303
9: 418, 419, 458, 462, 466, 473
64: 416, 421, 423, 425, 429, 432, 440, 457, 458, 460, 461, 466, 469, 471, 473, 480, 481, 482, 517
65: 416, 417, 419, 421, 422, 426, 427, 431, 435, 437, 444, 445, 448, 454, 457, 458, 460, 466, 468, 471, 473, 482
6520: 420
6524: 416, 417, 419, 421, 426, 427, 436, 437
Hill, Maj. Arthur W., 412
Hill, Lt. Col. Otho R., 19, 22
Hilldrup, Col. Don G., 66
Hitler line, 292
Holding facilities, for patients awaiting evacuation, 16, 164-65, 237, 307
Holmboe, Col. Harris, 538
Horses, use of, 102, 162, 264-65, 318-20, 456, 484
Hospital admissions
for combat wounds, 1, 1n, 2-6, 29, 111, 143, 165, 173, 201, 211, 240-41, 252-53, 286, 444. See also Battle casualties; Noneffective rate.
for disease, 6, 74, 77, 89, 97-99, 111, 115, 119, 165, 211
for injuries, 4, 21, 40, 51, 74, 79, 86, 89, 119, 165
Hospital construction
air-conditioned wards, 86
in Brazil, 49
in Canada, 33
and civilian labor shortage in Iceland, 14
in the Eastern Base Section, 193
and lack of insulation, 33
in Levant Service Command, 64
in Newfoundland, 24-25
in the Panama Canal Department, 37, 38
in the Persian Gulf Command, 76-77
in the Puerto Rican Department, 43
shortage of materials for, 13
types of
area, 56
one-story, 78
permanent, 24, 33, 38, 43, 68, 70, 194
rosette pattern, 77
temporary, 38-39, 43, 44, 49, 186, 430
tentage, use of, 73, 76, 183, 186, 188, 189, 190, 271, 275, 335, 336, 430
zone of interior, 49
and use of local materials, 49, 77
Hospital inspection
at Anzio, 277
by consultants, 211-12
Hospital inspection-Continued
by Icelandic doctors, 11
by theater surgeon, 212
Hospital rotation and replacement, 275, 277, 282, 291
Hospital Ship Platoons
5th, 205
34th, 202
36th, 202
37th, 202
Hospital ships
lack of
in Bermuda, 28
in the Middle East, 79
for North Africa invasion, 108, 115
planned use of
at Anzio, 268
in Sicily Campaign, 149
under control of Allied Force Headquarters, 226
Hospital ships, British, 110, 185, 192
Hospital ships, named
Algonquin, 357
Chateau Thierry, 397
Emily Weder, 397
John Clem, 397
Leinster, 110
Newfoundland, 228-29
St. Mihiel, 28
Shamrock, 397
Thistle, 397
Hospital sites, 43, 115, 118-19, 135, 183, 186, 188, 189, 190, 231, 237, 241-42, 252, 275, 307, 311, 402, 429
Hospital Trains, 14, 140, 155, 315, 341
41st, 205, 251, 310, 332, 342, 502, 546
66th, M2, 398
Hospital trains, Italian, 542
Hospitalization policy, 6, 40-41, 247-48, 255-56, 277-78
Hospitals, 64, 76, 83, 245, 527. See also British medical units; Convalescent Hospitals; Evacuation hospitals; Evacuation Hospitals, numbered; Field hospitals, Field Hospitals, numbered; General Hospitals; General Hospitals, numbered; Station Hospitals, numbered; Surgical Hospital, 48th.
bombing of, 228, 271, 275-77, 283, 297-98, 311, 331
damaged by storm, 231
Fifth Army, 237, 243, 246, 250, 255, 291, 304, 310
in Iceland Base Command, 12-16
lack of, during invasion of North Africa, 110
in Levant Service Command, 71
maintenance and repair of, 191, 304
placement of, 248
protection of, 79
transport of, 23, 38, 67, 68-70, 84, 85, 86, 111, 119, 125, 126, 129, 132, 183, 246, 271, 275, 291, 303-10
types of
civilian, use of, 23, 103, 111, 113-114, 115
Engineer Corps, 19, 24, 26, 32, 38
fixed, 5, 50, 68, 82, 120, 123, 136, 164, 182, 185, 188, 189, 206, 240, 250, 312, 329
mobile, 67, 120, 121, 123, 127, 132, 137, 143
Navy, in Bermuda, 27
Red Cross, 119
Hot springs, use of, for heating, 14
Howard Field, 37
Hrútafjördhur, 12
Huddleston, Col. Jarrett M., 223, 268, 271
Hudson Bay, 31
Hudson Bay Company, 33
Hume, Brig. Gen. Edgar Erskine, 220-21, 360, 361, 520
HUSKY. See Sicily Campaign.
Hutchinson, Lt. Col. William A., 58
Hutments, 190
Huts, types of
Boyle, 194
corrugated steel, 13
Nissen, 12, 13, 29, 188, 189, 190, 194
prefabricated, 13
Quonset, 13
Hutter, Col. Howard J., 180
Hyde, Col. James F. C., 66
–I–
IBC. See Iceland Base Command.
IBS. See Island Base Section.
Iceland Base Command (IBC), 10-18
Idstein, 542
Immunization. See Innoculations.
Inch, Col. T. D. (RAMC) , 489
India, 60, 70, 83, 85. See also China–Burma–India theater.
India-Burma theater, 84
Infantry Battalions
100th, 230, 418, 418n. See also Infantry Regiments, 442nd.
509th Parachute, 268, 270, 274
550th Airborne, 374
Infantry Divisions
1st, 105, 112, 113, 122, 124, 128, 129, 133, 152,
3rd, 105, 117, 118, 131, 152, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 169, 174, 223, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 238, 239, 267, 268, 273, 274, 284. 295, 296-97, 301, 314, 367, 368, 373, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 384, 387, 392, 413
9th, 105, 108, 115, 117, 122, 124, 127, 129, 131, 133, 146, 156, 159-60, 161, 267
34th, 105, 109, 110, 122, 124, 129, 134, 146, 223, 230, 231, 233, 234, 238, 239, 240, 243, 245, 246,
257, 263, 274, 277, 289, 295, 296, 297, 300, 302, 303, 307, 415, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 425, 426, 427, 435, 458, 461, 462, 465, 466, 467, 523, 526, 532, 549
36th, 223, 227, 230, 237, 238, 239, 243, 244, 245, 246, 274, 289, 291-92, 295, 296, 297, 299, 301-02, 367, 368, 373, 374, 375, 376, 379, 380, 382, 383, 384
45th, 150, 152, 153, 156, 157, 159, 160, 227, 230, 231, 233, 234, 237, 238, 239, 293, 263, 267, 272, 274, 275, 296, 297, 301, 367, 368, 373, 374, 375, 376, 379, 383, 384, 388
85th, 289, 291, 292, 293-94, 296, 297, 298, 300, 301, 303, 316, 418, 419, 421, 422, 426, 427, 428, 451, 458, 461-62, 523, 525, 538
88th, 289, 291, 292, 293-95, 296, 297-98, 300, 301, 302, 303, 314-15, 316, 415, 418, 421, 422, 426-27, 431, 436, 452, 458, 461, 462, 466-67, 468, 523, 525, 526, 538, 540, 549, 550
91st, 299, 301, 302, 303, 316, 415, 418, 419, 421, 422, 426, 427, 435, 461, 462, 467, 468, 483, 523, 525, 544
92nd, 299, 417, 418, 423, 424, 429, 431, 432, 440, 457, 458, 460, 461, 462, 463, 469, 473, 475, 479, 482, 523, 525, 527
Infantry Regiments
6th, 418
18th, 112-13
39th, 108, 110, 122, 156, 157, 159
85th, 433
133rd, 245
168th, 109, 110, 111, 125, 245
337th, 451
349th, 452
362nd, 483
366th, 424
442nd, 230, 302, 415, 418, 418n, 424, 457-58, 461, 462, 463, 538
473rd, 424, 432, 458, 461, 462, 463
504th Parachute, 152, 320, 234-35, 238, 268
505th Parachute, 152
509th Parachute, 105, 113, 122
551st Parachute, 374
Infectious hepatitis. See Hepatitis, infectious.
Injuries. See Hospital admissions, for injuries.
Inoculations, 17, 94, 172, 556
Insects, in Iceland, 17. See also diseases by name.
Intestinal diseases, 26, 76, 79, 212, 483, 530
Invasion Training Centers
Fifth Army, 149, 223, 224, 251
Seventh Army, 368
Iran, 56, 60, 61, 64, 68, 73, 74, 76, 77, 82, 86, 100, 103
Iran-Iraq Service Command, 60
Iranian Army, surgeon of, 95
Iranian Engineer District, 59
Iranian Mission, United States Military, 59, 64, 100
Isernia, 235
Isherwood, Col. John A., 43
Island Base Section (IBS) , 181, 197-99, 208, 339, 342, 348, 349, 488
Italian Army units. See also Italian Hospitals.
Groups
Cremona, 526
Division, Italia Bersaglieri, 462
Italian campaign, 255. See also campaigns by name.
combat planning for, 326
justification of, 552
medical planning for, 223-24
Italian doctors, 257
Italian engineer battalion, and malaria control, 289
Italian Government, 541
Italian home guards, 152
Italian Hospitals, 57, 251, 327
304th Field, 166
10th Reserve, 166
Italian litter-bearers, 432
Italian medical depot, capture of 169
Italian peace treaty, 550
Italian personnel, released from prisoner of war
status, 541
Italian police, prostitutes given into custody of, 258
Italian Riviera, 531
Italians, use of, in U.S. hospitals, 501
Italy, 47, 63, 65, 104, 174, 500-503, 515, 519-20, 523-51
Ivory Coast, 66
–J–
Jackson, Lt. Col. William M., 320
Japanese-Americans. See Infantry Battalion, 100th.
Jaundice, catarrhal, 26
Jean Bart, 117
Jeep courier, 207
Jeeps, use of, 426, 432, 553. See also Evacuation, by
land, by jeep.
Jeffcott, Lt. Col. George F., 102
Jeffress, Col. Vinnie H., 180, 332, 400
John Clem, 397
Johns Hopkins faculty, medical consultant from, 210
Johnson, Col. Clyde C., 45
Johnson, Col. Cortlandt, 47
Joint French Rearmament Committee, 347
Jones, Col. Jenner G., 324, 487-88
Jorhat, 84
Juin, General Alphonse P., 110, 243
–K–
Karr, Maj. James R., 47
Kasserine Pass, 124, 127, 129, 135, 137
Kazvin, 76
Keeney, Col. Paul A., 28
Kehoe, Lt. Col. Emmett L., 25
Kendricks, Col. Edward J., Jr., 65
Kenner, Maj. Gen. Albert W., 106, 119, 123, 138, 148, 177, 178, 179
Kesselring, Generalfeldmarschall Albert, 417
Keyes, Col. Baldwin L., 97
Keyes, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey, 147, 156, 238, 243, 296, 415, 421, 422
Khorramabad, 76
Kindley Field, 28
Kings Point, 27
Kirk, Maj. Gen. Norman T., 217
Kirkman, Col. Lewis W., 181, 306
Knapp, Lt. Col. Leslie E., 66
Koeltz, General Louis-Marie, 124, 131
Kool, Force, 152
Kuwait, 61
–L–
L-5’s, 460
La Meskiana, 127
Laboratories. See Dental laboratories; Medical laboratories.
Labrador, 31
Lagens, 29
Laiatico, 307
Lakes
Averno, 357
Garda, 523
Lucrino, 357
Trasimeno, 302
Lampedusa, 151
Lampione, 151
Lanuvio, 296
Larviciding, See Disinfestation, larviciding.
Lattre de Tassigny, General Jean de, 367, 376
Lawrence, Col. Gerald P., 217
Le Kef, 124
Leese, General Sir Oliver, 267
Leghorn, 300, 302, 303, 307, 488, 489, 490, 493, 494, 496, 498, 502-04, 507-08, 511-12, 517, 527, 529, 530-31, 535, 540, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550
Legnano, 526
Lehmann, Capt. Werner, 32
Leinster, 153
Leishmaniasis (Bagdad sore), 100
Lend-Lease Act, and supplies for British hospitals in North Africa, 57
Leone, Col. George E., 47, 48, 53
Leopoldville, 77n
Les Andalouses, 112
Levant Service Command, 61, 64, 71-72, 79, 81
Leyte, 553
Liberia, 60, 66, 67, 78, 79, 84, 89, 90, 91
Liberian Service Command, 78, 79, 89, 103
Liberian Task Force, 67
Libya, 60, 62, 63, 65, 67, 68, 81, 99, 123, 178
Libyan Base Command, 79
Libyan campaigns, British, 59, 72
Libyan Service Command, 62, 64, 72-73. See also Delta Service Command; Tripoli Base Command.
Licata, 152, 155-59, 164, 167, 169, 181
Lieberman, Col. John F., 11
Lice. See Disinfestation.
Lighting and power facilities, shortage of, Tunisia Campaign, 134
Limited assignment personnel, 316, 451, 460, 514
Linner, Lt. Col. Gunnar, 24, 25
Linosa, 151
Liri River, 199
Liri Valley, 238, 239, 243, 244, 289, 292, 295
Litter bearers, 2, 3, 4, 293, 295, 427, 428, 554
at Cassino, 245
in the Liri Valley, 293
at the Rapido River, 244
in the Winter Line campaign, 240
use of Czechoslovak prisoners as, 162
use of fighting units as, 247
Litter squads, 2, 161, 237, 240, 270
Litters, mule, cacolet and tandum, 161, 240
Logistics. See Medical supplies and equipment.
Long, Col. Perrin H., 210, 212, 350, 363, 408, 487
Lons-le-Saunier, 414
Lourmel, 112
Louse infestation. See Disinfestation.
LSTs, 149, 153, 155, 167, 169, 175, 226, 226n, 271, 275, 279, 282, 284, 311, 352, 414, 556
Lucca, 484
Lucas, Maj. Gen. John P., 230, 267, 270, 272, 273
Ludwig, Maj. Alfred O., 369, 409
Luftwaffe hospital, 536
Luzon, 553
Lyon, Maj. Champ, 211
–M–
MAAF. See Mediterranean Allied Air Forces.
MAC_ See Medical Administrative Corps.
McBride, Col. John R., 19
McCracken, Lt. Col. Gerald A., 268
McCreery, Lt. Gen. Sir Richard L., 223, 243, 418
McDill, Col. John E., 82
McFall, Lt. Col. Thomas A., 102
Mackensen, General Eberhard von, 273
Macmillan, Harold, 519
McNarney, Lt. Gen. Joseph T., 423, 499
McSween, Lt. Col. John C., 11
Maceió, 47
Mai Habar, 69
Maison Carrée, 110
Malaria, 68, 201, 256-57, 259, 316, 321, 339, 350, 353, 354-56, 362, 411, 412, 513, 526
in the Antilles, 45
at Anzio, 286-87
in the Atlantic Base Section, 212-13
in the Eighth Air Force, 89-90
in the Eighth Army, 173
in Italy, 214, 230-31, 260-61, 286-87
in the MTO, 355-56
in North Africa, 60, 63, 66, 106, 145, 196, 212-14, 220, 221
in the Panama Canal Department, 39
in the Persian Gulf Service Command, 76
at Salerno, 230-31
in Seventh Army, 173
in Sicily, 150, 165, 170, 172-73, 214
VI Corps, 195
in the South Atlantic, 47
in Tunisia Campaign, 145
Malaria Committee, British-American, 212-13
Malaria control. See also Atabrine; Disinfestation,
for malaria control.
complicated by German destruction of drainage
system in Italy, 260
development of Allied policy on, 90, 213-14
filling in of craters by engineers, 260
and liaision with British and French authorities, 214
planning for
for Fifth Army, 259-60
for the Middle East, 88-91
for the North Africa campaign, 212-14
for West Africa, 89-91
and suppressive therapy, 286-87
Malaria Control Branch, Allied Control Commission, 355
Malaria Control Committee, VI Corps, 287
Malaria Control Detachment (MCD), 2655th, 213, 259, 354, 412
Malaria Control Units (MCU), 89, 213, 216, 260, 355
19th, 213
21st, 213
22nd, 213
23rd, 213
131st, 412
132nd, 412
Malaria Survey Units (MSU), 51-52, 88-89, 173, 213, 216
10th, 213
12th, 213
13th, 213
14th, 213
Malarial Advisory Board, Allied Force Headquarters, 213
Malariologist, NATOUSA. See Moore, Col. Loren D.; Russell, Col. Paul F.
Malnutrition, 201
Malta, 151
Manduria, 333
Mansfield, Capt. William K., 110
Maquis, 375
Margarita Hospital, 37
Marine Corps personnel, 10-11, 14, 552
Marrakech, 83, 85, 116, 137, 183, 187, 335, 498
Marsala, 151
Martin, Maj. Gen. Joseph I., 223, 255, 268, 275, 279, 304, 314, 416, 435, 436, 437, 444, 458, 463, 469, 525, 536, 538, 541, 548, 557
Mascarenhas de Morais, Maj. Gen. Joao, 462
MASH, 555
Mason, Lt. Col. Richard P., 324
Massa Marittima, 307, 310, 320
Matese Mountains, 233
Mateur, 131, 132, 168, 181, 205, 208
Maurer, Lt. Col. Murray L., 541
Maxwell, Brig. Gen. Russell L., 56, 60, 62
Maxillofacial center, 358, 496. See also Station Hospitals, 52nd.
Meat inspection. See Food inspection.
Medical Administrative Corps (MAC) , 2, 64, 216, 249, 258, 279, 320, 545, 554
Medical advisory committee, Middle East Supply Council, 62
Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadrons (MAETS)
802nd, 139, 167, 168, 196, 204, 226, 311, 341-42, 397, 447n, 480, 531-32
805th, 83
807th, 196n, 311, 342, 397, 447, 447n, 532, 533
Medical battalions, 5, 120, 149, 154, 230, 248, 251, 267
corps, 129, 144, 157, 159, 164, 173, 231, 237, 240, 270, 303, 307, 311, 312
organic, 129, 153, 157, 159, 224, 228, 230, 233, 289, 293
Medical Battalions, numbered
3rd, 118, 154, 155, 158, 230, 233, 268, 273, 378
5th, 12
9th, 110, 111, 118, 119, 120, 122, 133, 240
11th, 237
47th Armored, 113, 114, 122, 124, 125, 274, 429, 465
51st, 107, 115, 124, 132, 133-34, 140, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 161, 165, 332, 546
52nd, 224, 230, 231, 233, 241, 268, 273, 274, 277, 278, 286, 298, 299, 373, 377-78, 380, 393, 398
54th, 153, 156, 161, 162, 224, 238, 241, 244, 245, Medical Battalions, numbered-Continued 246, 260, 263, 291, 293, 294, 298, 417, 427, 428-29, 430-31, 445, 453, 467, 477, 478, 479, 483, 538, 545
56th, 118, 119, 132, 155, 156, 157, 164, 279, 299, 311, 312, 374, 380, 381, 382, 384, 386, 388, 395
58th, 374, 379, 380, 381, 386, 395, 397
109th, 110, 120, 124, 125, 230, 233, 237-38, 240, 245, 303, 417, 426, 465
111th, 227, 244, 246, 374, 379, 382, 385
120th. 152-53, 228, 237, 240, 374, 383-84
161st, 224, 230, 248, 249, 255, 277, 295, 312, 331, 416, 432, 437, 448, 450, 463, 545
162nd, 224, 227, 231, 232, 233, 241, 248, 249, 258, 263, 278, 279, 295, 312, 326, 416, 428, 430-31, 437, 439, 440, 444, 448, 453, 469, 483-84, 502, 544
163rd, 312, 317, 429, 432, 440, 447, 448, 453, 466, 479, 544, 545
164th, 336, 374, 386, 387, 393, 394, 395, 398, 404
181st, 336, 373, 378, 393, 410, 411
261st Amphibious, 154, 155, 156, 164, 224
313th, 289, 291, 293, 295, 315, 427, 466, 549, 550
Medical Bulletin of the North African Theater of Operations, 179
Medical Center, 6744th, 332
Medical Companies. See also Medical supply units.
376th Collecting, 373
377th Collecting, 373
378th Collecting, 373
383c1 Clearing, 467
388th Collecting, 374
389th Collecting, 374
390th Collecting, 374
402nd Collecting, 277, 312, 480n
403rd Collecting, 295
406th Collecting, 295
551st Ambulance, 295
601st Clearing, 255, 291, 303, 304, 307, 315, 437, 444, 450, 463, 473, 480, 545
602nd Clearing, 258, 263, 278, 279, 291, 304, 317, 437, 444, 453, 469, 473, 483-84, 525
616th Clearing, 373, 374, 378, 393, 394, 410, 411
638th Clearing, 374, 393, 395, 404
676th Collecting, 374, 380, 395
683rd Clearing, 431
886th Collecting, 374
887th Collecting, 374
891st Clearing, 374
2670th Ambulance (Prov), 196
Medical Department, 1, 29-30, 120, 143, 314, 486, 501, 513-14, 552, 554
and Canada, 33
and the Panama Canal Department, 35, 39, 42-43, 44-45
Medical Department personnel, 3-6, 58, 59, 60, 63-64, 118-19, 121, 124, 223, 250, 251, 258, 259, 303, 304, 306, 307
assigned to AMGOT, 152
and care of construction engineers, in Liberia, 67
casualties among, 134-35, 240, 273, 275-79, 283, 311, 329
drawn from collecting companies, 248
expanded capabilities of, due to specialized
facilities, 248
parachute training for, 150
preference for American medical supplies as
opposed to British, 87
reinforcements for, 55, 128, 134
replacement of, by officers of MAC, 169
shortage of, 119, 144, 244, 249
and study of infectious hepatitis, 256-57
transport of, 23, 97-98, 134, 543, 544, 545-46, 554
used to augment local public health staffs, 220-21
Medical depot companies. See Medical supply
units, Depot Companies.
Medical detachments, 9, 43, 110, 113, 122, 162, 373, 374
Medical Directorate, British Army Middle-East Forces, 62
Medical equipment. See Medical supplies and
equipment.
Medical inspectors
from base sections, supervise malaria control
measures in North Africa, 213
from Fifth Army, assumes responsibility for
organizing malaria control, 259
from Libyan Service Command, 64
from USAFIME, 89
Medical laboratories, 49, 94, 99, 225, 258
Medical Laboratories, numbered
4th, 404
15th General, 314, 332, 350, 352, 409, 513, 546
Medical maintenance units (MMU) , 107, 142, 168, 208-09, 373
Medical Regiment, 16th, 120, 122, 122n, 123, 124, 129, 132, 134, 138, 142, 196, 215, 224. See also Medical Battalions, 161st and 162nd.
Medical section
of Fifth Army, 223-24
of NATOUSA, 211, 323, 353, 486-87
of Persian Gulf Service Command, 64-65
Medical seminars, systematized, 314
Medical supplies and equipment, 4, 87, 149, 208-09, 224, 511, 546-47, 553
British, use of by American units, 87, 114
catalog of spare parts for, 507
delayed arrival of
at Gela beach, 154
in Iceland, 17
in the Levant Service Command, 71
at Salerno, 230
for the Levant Service Command, 57, 71
loss of
to enemy action, 230, 275, 333
for the Middle East, 87-88
obsolete, 134
shipped to zone of interior, 40, 88, 507, 551
shipped to the United Kingdom, 17
in Sicily, 251
and property exchange, 282, 314, 398
policy for, 16-17, 87-88, 210, 346-47, 372, 407, 507, 550
shortages of, 39, 87, 110, 119, 140, 208-09, 252, 552
transport of, 17, 88, 252, 282, 292, 314, 346, 404, 405-06, 507-08
for the Tunisia Campaign, 99, 134
Medical Supply Branch, 506. See also Medical
supplies and equipment; Medical supply units.
Medical supply depots. See Medical supply units, Supply Depots.
Medical supply units
Composite Battalions
Service Battalion, 232nd, 512, 548, 550
Supply Depots
2nd, 124, 127, 140-42, 169-70, 208, 208n
4th, 169, 208, 208n, 224, 227, 329
12th, 252
Depot Companies
2nd, 345, 347, 348-49, 406, 509
7th, 337, 345, 346, 348, 349, 369, 380, 404-06, 413
12th, 252, 268, 280, 312-14, 318, 345, 346, 417, 440, 448, 453, 481-82, 548
20th, 17
48th, 346
Base Depot Companies
60th, 346, 509-10, 512, 548, 550
73rd, 346, 350, 511, 512, 548, 550
Supply Detachments
339th, 550
890th, 413
Composite Platoon, 300th, 17
Mediterranean Allied Air Forces (MAAF), 184, 326-27, 374-75, 423
Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force, 460
Mediterranean Base Section (MBS), 82, 180, 188-89, 192, 193, 194, 201, 204, 205, 206, 208, 213, 219, 220, 324, 337, 338, 348, 349, 372, 488, 509, 511
Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) , 84, 86, 353, 355, 401, 403, 406, 412-13, 498, 504-05, 521, 534, 546, 547, 550-51
Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army (MTOUSA), 496, 498, 509, 532-33
bed ratio in, 529-30
evaluation of, 552-57
medical section of, 487-88, 521-22
responsible for prisoners of war, 540
redeployment plans and centers, 526-27
surgeon of, 506, 507, 528, 549
Tables of Equipment for, 507, 545
Menfi, 157
Mess halls, in the Middle East, 97
Metauro River, 302
Meteorological stations, 19-22, 31
Methyl bromide (MYL), 362
Michelin cars, 123
Michener, Capt. Elizabeth, 324, 359
Middle East Supply Council, 62, 95
Middle East theater, 62, 63, 88, 94, 97, 99, 102. See also Africa-Middle East Theater of Operations; Iran-lraq Service Command; Persian Gulf Service Command; United States Army Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME) .
Mignano, 235, 238, 246, 252, 291
Military Government Section, Allied Force Headquarters, 361
Military Mission to the Italian Army, 459
Military police, 201
Millburn, Col. Conn L., Jr., 541
Miller, Lt. Col. Nesbitt L., 152
Minturno, 243, 261, 289, 291, 293, 304
Mirandola, 517
Mirgorod, 321
Mistretta, 166
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, 555
Moccasins, use by American troops, 33
Monastery Hill, 292
Monrovia, 67
Montana, 31
Monte Cassino, 238
Monte San Biagio, 319
Montecantini, 499, 527, 529, 532, 544, 545
Montecchio, 307
Montedoro, 292
Montepescali, 306
Montesquieu, 127
Montevideo, 54
Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard L., 123, 223, 267
Montichiari, 537
Moroccan tabors, 376
Morocco, 43, 62, 104, 105, 108, 119, 148, 335
Morphine, 373
Mortar shell cases, as containers for medical
supplies, 154
Mosquitoes. See Malaria control.
Mostra Fairgrounds, 327-28, 329, 332, 349, 496, 499
Mountain Division, 10th, 424, 425, 431, 435, 455-56, 458, 461, 462, 463, 464, 466, 477, 483, 484, 484n, 516, 517, 523, 525, 526, 535, 544
Mowrey, Col. Fred H., 542
MP’s, 201
Mt. Arrestino, 296
Mt. Lungo, 239
Mt. Pantano, 240
Mt. Sammucro, 239
Mt. Trocchio, 239
Mukluks, use by American troops, 33
Mule Pack Group, 20th, 320
Mules, use of, 133, 146, 160-62, 174, 240, 292, 318-20, 422, 426, 432, 454-56, 479, 553-54
Mumps, in Iceland, 17
Munhall, Lt. Col. Lawrence M., 216-17, 357
Munich, 542
Munly, Col. William C., 487
Murphy, Robert D., 219-20
Mussolini Canal, 268, 271, 274
Mustapha civil hospital, Ill
Mustard gas, 350-51
–N–
Naples, 95, 216, 222, 223, 230, 233, 238, 241, 243, 250, 252, 253, 258, 262, 263, 270, 272, 275, 277, 279, 284, 290, 300, 310, 488, 489, 490, 493, 494, 496, 499, 502, 504, 505, 520, 528, 529, 530, 532, 535, 540, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 556
Naples-Foggia Campaign, 222-43
Narsarssuak, 18-19
Naval Shore Battalion, 4th, 227
Navy Department, agrees to establish bases in Greenland, 18
Navy epidemiology unit, transfer of Typhus Commission equipment to, 95
Navy medical personnel, care of casualties evacuated from Salerno, 226
Navy personnel, medical treatment for, 14-15, 49-50
Navy representative, attends British-American malaria control committee, 212-13
Netherlands West Indies, 8, 44
Nettuno, 268, 270, 271, 274, 275, 279, 296, 311
Neuropsychiatric casualties, 96-97, 256, 284-85, 432-33, 437, 450-51, 483
Neuropsychiatric Centers
Fifth Army, 249, 255-56, 315, 369, 409
Neuropsychiatric hospitals, 249, 282, 291, 304, 307, 329, 335, 337, 393, 394, 402, 403, 444, 480, 514. See also Evacuation Hospitals, numbered, 56th; General Hospitals, numbered, 3rd, 45th; Station Hospitals, numbered, 43rd, 51st, 114th.
Neuropsychiatry, 253-54, 256, 314-15, 316, 556
at Anzio, 284
in Canada, 33
in Greenland, 21-22
in the Middle East, 86-87, 88, 96-98
in the Po Valley, 513-14
in Sicily, 171-72
Neuropsychiatry, problems
combat neurosis, high incidence of, at the Volturno, 236
mild neurosis, 255
percentage of patients returned to duty, in Tunisia, 144-45
tropical syndrome, 96-97
New Guinea, 89
New Orleans, 41
New York, 115
New Zealand, 102
New Zealand Army units
Division, 2nd, 245
Newfoundland, 8, 24, 25, 26, 30-31, 43
Newfoundland, 228-29
Newfoundland Air Base, 23
Newfoundland Base Command, 23-25
Nicaragua, 39
Nice, 531
Nichol, Col. William W., 548
Nigeria, 60
Nile River, 68
Ninth Air Force Service Command, 65
Nisei, 230
Nissen huts, 19, 30, 130-32, 135
Noneffective rates, 322, 515, 555-56
in Iceland, 18
in the Middle East theater, 88
Noonan, Col. James E., 218, 325, 359, 487, 516, 517
Norman, Lt., Col. E. T., 39
Norris, Col. Benjamin, 210
North Africa, 29, 43, 80, 84, 85, 104, 121, 178, 502, 504, 509, 551, 552
North African Air Force, 151
North African Economic Board, 151
North African Mission. See Military North African Mission.
North African Service Command, 60-61, 81-82, 92, 103
North African Theater of Operations, United States Army (NATOUSA), 29, 77n, 180-81, 204, 210-14, 217, 223, 323-24, 333, 334, 354, 361, 362, 363. See also Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army.
co-ordination with French Army medical section, 179
establishment of, 178
and malaria control directives, 286-87
medical section of, 211, 323, 353, 486-87
personnel requirements, 179
surgeon of, 324, 334, 340, 354
Table of Organization for, 211, 338
North African Wing, Air Transport Command, 83-84
North Apennines Campaign, 415-56, 484, 485, 490, 499, 501
Northern Base Section (NORBS) , 181, 199, 208, 349, 350, 488, 497, 502, 509-10
Northwest African Air Forces (NAAF) , 151, 167, 182. See also Mediterranean Allied Air Forces.
Norton, Lt. Col. John W. R., 212
Nova Scotia, 26
Norwegian Army and Navy personnel, medical
treatment for, in Iceland, 14-15
Nurse Corps, 229, 276, 283, 299, 307, 321, 381, 437, 518-19
absent from Fifth Army Neuropsychiatric Center, 255
accompanies psychotics on Air Transport Command flights, 79-80
award of Silver Star to members of, 288
enlisted medical personnel substituted for, in Brazil, 53
flown to Sardinia, 175
in Iceland Base Command, 14
as a morale factor at Anzio, 288
in Pan American Highway Medical Service, 39
psychiatric school conducted for, 219
rest camp privileges, 303
rotation and promotion policies, 219, 519
shortage of, in North Africa, 219
in Sicily invasion, 153
and transfers to ETO, 219
in Tunisia Campaign, 219
Nurses, Brazilian, 336, 439, 442, 469, 491, 505
Nurses, casualties among
at Salerno, 229
Nurses, Polish refugee, 60
–O–
Observation Squadron, 1st, 10
O’Daniel, Brig. Gen. John W., 273
Oil stoves, use of, to heat field hospitals, 4
Ombrone River, 302
Ondash, Lt. Col. Stephen W., 19
Oran, 82, 85, 105, 107, 108, 111-115, 118, 121, 122, 123, 124, 137, 138, 139, 150, 168, 177, 179, 180, 181, 188, 189, 192, 206, 208, 226, 488, 498, 504, 509, 510, 534, 541
Orbetello, 306
Ortona, 240
Ostiglia, 485
Ostrander, Col. Forrest R., 65
Oued Seguin, 190
Oujda, 223
Ouled Rahmoun, 138
Ousseltia Valley, 125
–P–
P-40’s, 10
Pacific Fleet, 8
Pacific theater, redeployment to, 521-23, 543, 544, 545, 546
Pack trains, Italian, 318-19, 432, 453-54, 484, 545
Palazzo Beccadelli, 484
Palestine, 57, 60, 61, 71, 81, 84, 87, 102
Palestine Area. See Levant Service Command.
Palermo, 156, 157, 158, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 174, 181
Pan American Airways, 50
Pan American Highway Medical Service, 39
Panama Canal Department, 34-41, 42
Panama Canal Zone, 7, 9, 34, 35, 42
Pantelleria Islands, 150-51
Pappataci fever, 77, 99, 172, 173, 256-57
Parachute Battalions. See under Infantry Battalions.
Parachute Regiments. See under Infantry Regiments.
Paraguay, 54
Paramaribo, 44
Paratyphoid, 172
Paris green, 356
Parkinson, Brigadier G. S., 361, 363
Pasteur Institutes, 95
Patch, Lt. Gen. Alexander M., 366-67, 415
Patton, Maj. Gen. George S., Jr., 105, 127, 130, 147, 172, 267, 366
Patton, Col. Thomas E., Jr., 66
Peatfield, Col. Norman E., 369
Peccioli, 307
Pelagies, 151
Penicillin, 94, 253, 258, 258n, 314, 352, 354, 412, 450, 473, 513, 556
Peninsular Base Section (PBS) , 250, 313, 349-50, 488, 511, 512, 516, 526-32, 535, 538, 540, 541, 543, 545, 546
hospitals in, 489, 490, 501, 502, 546
malariologist of, 355
psychiatric hospitals in, 493, 528
surgeon of, 352, 447, 528, 535
Peptic ulcer, 451
Perrégaux, 193
Persano, 516
Persian Gulf area, 67, 69, 73, 79, 88, 99-100, 102
Persian Gulf Service Command, 61, 64-65, 68, 74-80, 82, 84, 86-87, 103. See also Africa-Middle East Theater of Operations; Iran-Iraq Service Command.
Peru, 38
Pétain, Marshal Henri, 108
Petralia, 159
Pets, care of, 103
Pharmacy Corps, 323
Philippines, 545
Philippeville, 142
Piacenza, 537
Piana di Caiazzo, 333, 494, 495, 496, 527
Pickering, Col. Clifford E., 264-65, 359, 455
Pico, 292
Pietraperzia, 159
Pigeons, use of, 306, 444, 456
Plitz, Maj. George F., 66
Piper Cubs, 279, 284, 483, 554
Piryatin, 320-21
Pisa, 302, 303, 488, 495, 496, 498, 510, 516, 520, 527, 533, 535, 539, 540, 541, 550
Pistoia, 495, 496, 502, 529, 530, 532
Plague, 30, 83, 91, 99, 106, 556
Ploesti, 80
Po Valley, 484, 490, 494, 496, 499, 500, 501, 530, 540
Po Valley Campaign, 457-85, 500-501, 510, 513, 515, 517, 525, 531, 534
Poggibonsi, 302
Pohl, Col. Louis K., 327
Poletti, Col. Charles A., 220
Polvrifitto, 485
Pomigliano Airfield, 333
Ponce, 42
Ponte Olivo, 153
Ponteginori, 307
Pontepetri, 517
Port Elizabeth, 57
Port-Lyautey, 115, 117, 118, 186
Port of Leghorn Organization, 550
Port-of-Spain, 44
Port Sudan, 57
Port Surgeon’s Office, 8th, 196
Portuguese Government, 29
President of United States. See Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Prestwick, 31
Prime Minister, British. See Churchill, Winston S.
Primolino, 525
Priverno, 295
Prisoner of War Administrative Companies
2686th, 340
6619th, 340
Prisoner of war command, MTOUSA, 525, 538
Prisoner of War Enclosures
100th, 202
130th, 201
334th, 498
Ghedi, 334
Prisoner of war evacuation, 165, 540, 541-43
Prisoner of war hospital trains, 506
Prisoner of war hospitals, 339, 478, 498, 499, 525, 530, 534-35. See also Station Hospitals, 34th, 66th, 131st (Ger.) , 7029th (It.) , 7550th (It.).
Prisoner of war repatriation policy, 542, 548
Prisoners of war
German, 339-40, 386, 464-65, 475-77, 505
Italian, 194, 339-40, 462, 535, 554
medical treatment for, 197, 434. See also Prisoner of war hospitals.
Prophylactic stations. See Venereal disease.
Prosthetic Dental Clinic and Laboratory, II Corps, 263
Prosthetic dental work. See Dental Prosthetics.
Prostitution, 51, 92-94, 215, 257-58, 354, 412. See also Venereal disease.
Provisional Corps, 156-58, 167
Provost Marshal General, 201
Psychiatric disorders. See Neuropsychiatry.
Psychogenic dyspepsia, 451
Public Health
in North Africa, 220-21
Public Health and Welfare Subcommission, 361
Public Health Service, United States (USPHS) , 94, 220, 221, 360
Puerto Rico, 7, 8, 9, 26, 41, 42, 43, 45
Puerto Rican Department, 41-43
Puerto Rican Section. See Caribbean Defense Command.
Pugsley, Col. Matthew C., 152
Pursuit Squadron, 33rd, 10
Pyle, Ernie, 160
–Q–
Quartermaster Base Depot Company, 684th, 349, 509-12
Quartermaster Corps
improvises equipment, 209
issues shoes to troops in Canada, 33
operates medical units in the Persian Gulf Service Command, 76
operates shower and sterilization unit, 332
Quartermaster Remount Depots
2610th, 516
Quebec, conference in, 519
Quebec Province, 31
Quinine, use of, 122
Quonset huts, 19
–R–
RAAC. See Rome Allied Area Command.
Rafidiyah, 59
Ranger Battalions, 105, 151, 152, 223, 235
4th, 273
Ranson, Maj. Stephen W., 410
Rapido River, 206, 238-39, 243-44, 267, 291
Raulerson, Lt. Col. Charles, 369
Reconditioning program, in North Africa, 216
Recreation facilities. See Rest and recreation facilities.
Red Cross hospitals, 119, 165, 170
Red Cross insignia. See Geneva Cross.
Red Cross worker, lost to enemy action, 275
Redeployment, to Pacific, 521-22, 545
Redeployment centers
Brazilian, 527-28
in Florence, 545
Regensburg, 542
Remount Depot, Fifth Army, 264, 484, 485, 517
Rennell, Maj. Gen. Lord, 220
Renshaw, Col. Solon B., 218
Repatriation. See Prisoners of war repatriation policy.
Replacement Depots
8th, 495
24th, 516
Replacement Training Command, 499
Republic of Panama, 38, 39, 41
Respiratory diseases, 249, 257, 386, 427, 530, 556
in the Azores, 30
in Canada, 33
in Greenland, 21
in Iceland, 17
in Italy, 483
in the Middle East, 77, 79, 86, 88, 98
in Newfoundland, 26
Rest and recreation facilities
recreational facilities, 93, 97, 103
rest camps, 133, 246-47, 303, 437, 510, 519, 528
rest center, Fifth Army, 263
Reykjavik, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 31
Riardo, 237, 242, 246, 252, 255, 291
Rich, Col. Joseph, 369
Richards, U. Col. James T., 323-24
Richardson, Lt. Col. Clarence T., 317
Rieser, Maj. Julian M., 54
Roberts, Lt. Col. Raiford A., 259
Roberts Field, 60, 66, 84, 90, 91, 92, 213
Robinson, Col. Albert H., 181, 199, 369
Rockefeller Foundation, 53, 94, 363, 365
Rockefeller Typhus Team, 216
Roe, Col. William Warren, Jr., 324
Rome, 80, 222, 240, 266, 267, 268, 270, 272, 273, 291-92, 295-96, 298-99, 302, 304-05, 306, 307, 310, 493, 499, 500, 502, 527, 529, 550
Rome Allied Area Command, 488-89. See also
Rome Area, MTOUSA.
Rome Area, MTOUSA, 489, 495, 530
Rome-Arno Campaign, 244-65, 289-322, 556
medical support for, 302-20
military support for, 299-302
Rommel, Generalfeldmarschall Erwin, 60-61, 124
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 10, 108, 519
Rosignano, 302
Royal Army Medical Corps, 324, 489
Royal Canadian Air Force, 23, 30
Royal Canadian Air Force hospital, 23
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 33
Royal Navy, 14-15, 69, 105, 114
Royce, Maj. Gen. Ralph, 80
Rudolph, Col. Myron P., 181, 369
Russell, Col. Paul F., 213
Russian Army, 56
Russian Mission, transfer of medical personnel from, 59
Rustigan, 2nd Lt. Robert, 211
Ryder, Gen. Charles W., 105
–S–
Sacco River, 292
Sadler, Brig. Gen. Percy L., 67
Safi, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 183
St. Arnaud, 190
St. John, Lt. Col. Clement F., 119
St. John’s, 23-24
St. Lawrence River, 22
St. Leu, 114
St. Mihiel, 28
Ste. Barbe-du-Tlélat, 188
Salerno, 188, 226-31, 257, 516, 526, 553
medical planning for, 223-26
military planning for, 222-23
Salinas, 38
Saline, 307
Salsomaggiore, 525
Salt tablets, 99
Sams, Col. Crawford F., 56, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 80
Sams, Lt. Col. James E., 542
Samuel J. Tilden, 333
San Fratello Ridge, battle for, 162
San Julian, 44
San Martino, 517
San Pietro, 252
San Remo, 531
San Stefano, 159, 162, 167, 172
Sandfly fever. See Pappataci fever.
Sanitary conditions
in the Africa-Middle East theater, 67, 79, 88, 98
in Iceland, 18
in the Persian Gulf Service Command, 77
in Sicily, 170
engineer from, attached to the surgeon, NATOUSA, 220
inadequate facilities for cleansing mess kits, 215
lack of sewage disposal systems in the Middle East, 98
and malaria control at Anzio, 286-87
responsible for antimalaria control measures, 213
services to Air Transport Command personnel, 81
uses Veterinary Corps piggeries for garbage disposal, 102
value of screening established for diarrhea and dysentery control, 145
for malaria control, 39
in West Africa, 90-91
Sanitary engineers, Italian, and malaria control, 260
Sanitation team, Ninth Air Force, 65
Sant’Elia, 239
Santa Maria Island, 29
Santa Marinella, 304-05
San Martino, 485
San Sano Wells, 194
Sardinia, 174, 188, 264, 488, 497
Saylor, Maj. Samuel L., 162
Scheele, Lt. Col. Leonard A., 220
School of Aviation Medicine, at Randolph Field, 47
Sebkra d’Oran, 112
Sebou River, 117-18
Sedation, use in treatment of psychiatric cases, 145, 171, 255
Selesnick, Lt. Col. Sydney, 258, 279
Senigallia, 302, 497, 499, 510, 529
Serchio Valley, 503
Service commands, USAFIME, 63
Services of Supply (SOS), 62, 65-66, 73, 148, 180, 181, 210, 212, 214, 217, 218, 231, 251, 324-25, 405-06, 487-88
and control of base section supply activities, 181
medical section of, 207, 323-24, 336, 344-45, 349, 353, 355
and planning for Sicily Campaign, 106
surgeon of, 62
Services of Supply, NATOUSA, 207, 323, 355, 359, 369, 372, 406
Seventh Army Surgeon, 149, 166, 173, 373, 397, 399, 402
Seymour Island, 38
Sfax, 73
SHAEF. See Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) .
Shamrock, 397
Shatt-al-Arab, 76
Shea, Maj. Andrew W., 22
Sherwood, Col. John W., 37
SHINGLE. See Anzio Campaign.
Shingler, Col. Don. G., 60
Ships. See also Hospital ships, named.
Bernadou, 115
Cole, 115
Dallas, 118
Dorchester, 19
Edmund B. Alexander, 23
Jean Bart, 117
New York, 115
Shook, Col. Charles F., 210, 323, 401
Shu’aybah, 59
Sicily, 29, 63, 65, 73, 89, 130, 304, 488, 553, 556
Sicily Campaign, 144, 147-76, 181, 211, 251, 555-56
assault phase, 151-52
field medical units compared to those of Italy
campaign, 237-38
and medical experience used in planning for Anzio, 267
medical planning for, 147-49, 220-21
and medical planning compared to Salerno
planning, 223-24
military planning for, 147
shortage of beds, 205
and training of medical troops for, 149-50
Sidi Bel Abbès, 188
Sidi Bou Hanifia, 188, 190, 216
Sidi Ferruch, 111
Snyder, Maj. Gen. Howard McC., 123
South African Armoured Division, 6th, 418, 421, 424, 429, 458, 459, 461, 526
South Atlantic ferry route, 47
Southampton Island, 32
Southeastern Europe, 63
Southern France, 267, 302, 307, 310
Southern France Campaign, 366-414
medical planning for, 369-74
military planning for, 366-68
Southern Line of Communications (SOLOC), 400-401, 408, 486
Southern Town Command, North African Service Command, 82
Southern Tunisia, 73, 130, 132, 135, 137, 138
Southwest Pacific, 544, 545, 546
Spanish Morocco, 113
Spaulding, Col. William L., 181
Special Service Force, 1st, 238, 239, 272, 295, 296, 367, 371n, 374, 375, 376, 386
Specialist personnel, 49, 191, 249
Specialized hospitals
gastrointestinal, 555
in Italy, 248-49
neuropsychiatric, 249, 282, 555
Spinazzola, 529
Stalin, Marshal Joseph, 366
Stalingrad, 552
Station de Sened, 128
Station hospitals, 24, 28, 44, 69, 71, 101, 103, 134, 312
in Brazil, 55
in the Panama Canal Department, 35
in the Persian Gulf Service Command, 73-74
10-bed, 42
40-bed, 23
50-bed, 23, 33, 44, 49, 59-60, 84, 85
60-bed, 23
100-bed, 25, 28, 32, 42, 44, 49, 50, 58, 69
150-bed, 23, 25, 28, 33, 42, 44, 49, 76, 85, 86
200-bed, 44
250-bed, 24, 28, 44, 58, 67, 71, 74, 84, 85, 86
350-bed, 50
400-bed, 400
600-bed, 45
900-bed, 58
1,000-bed, 43
Station Hospitals, numbered
6th, 33
21st, 68-69, 74, 76, 86, 102, 498, 528, 529, 540, 546
29th, 188, 189, 196, 338, 348, 439. See also Evacuation Hospitals, numbered, 170th.
32nd, 189, 332, 335, 496, 529, 546
34th, 193, 199, 336, 339-40, 495, 496, 528, 550-51
40th, 188, 199, 396, 396n, 497, 500, 510, 528, 529, 546
50th, 183, 187, 337, 490, 495, 496, 498. See also Field Hospitals, numbered, 99th.
51st, 183, 194, 335, 350, 402, 411
54th, 192, 197, 337, 348, 458n, 498, 509. See also Evacuation Hospitals, numbered, 171st.
55th, 193, 333, 334, 337, 447, 448, 490, 494, 502,
56th, 81, 85, 103, 183, 186, 202, 203, 335, 338, 339, 347, 498, 509
57th, 85, 189n, 190, 190n, 204, 337, 458n, 498, 509
60th, 175, 193, 199, 335, 480, 497, 499, 529, 546
61st, 136, 189, 204, 333, 334, 497, 550, 551
66th, 183-86, 333, 335, 336, 339-40
73rd, 190, 204, 335, 336, 337, 495, 496, 528, 529, 546
74th, 193, 195, 333, 336, 481, 494, 497, 499, 500, 529, 539, 540, 546
78th, 192, 195, 197, 202, 336, 340, 402, 532
80th, 192, 195, 197, 202, 387, 402
81st, 192, 195, 197, 335, 493, 529, 535, 540, 546
103rd, 193, 197, 202, 329, 494, 498, 499, 529, 539, 540, 541, 546
105th, 193, 197, 217, 337, 490, 495, 527, 529, 533, 546
113th, 74, 77. See also General Hospitals, numbered, 113th.
114th, 193, 195, 197, 219, 336, 337, 350, 493, 528, 540, 546
131st, 32
131st (Ger.), 498
133rd, 33
134th, 33
154th, 74, 86, 199, 490, 493, 495, 496, 527, 529, 546
182nd, 329, 332, 336, 496, 499, 527, 529, 546
189th, 22
190th, 21
191st, 21
221st, 28-29
225th, 329, 332, 480, 496, 499, 527, 528, 529, 546
255th, 44
262nd, 333, 340, 496, 529, 535, 540, 546
293rd, 44
294th, 44
295th, 44
296th, 44
297th, 44
299th, 44
301st, 44
308th, 24-25
309th, 25
310th, 25
311th, 25
326th, 44
327th, 15. See also General Hospitals, numbered, 208th.
330th, 44
333rd, 38
334th, (Ger.) , 498, 535, 539-40, 541
352nd, 44
353rd, 44
354th, 44
355th, 44
356th, 44
358th, 44
359th, 44, 45. See also General Hospitals, numbered, 41st.
365th, 15. See also Station Hospitals, numbered, 14th, 15th, 167th.
366th, 15
368th, 38
370th, 85, 183, 187, 335, 338, 498
392nd, 550
7029th (It.) , 202, 339, 498, 535, 541
7550th (It.) , 339
7607th (It.) , 404
Standlee, Col. Earle, 106, 178, 179, 487, 549
Stayer, Maj. Gen. Morrison C., 34, 324, 334, 487, 489, 496, 498, 499, 504, 507, 521
Stephensville, 24
Stevenson, Col. Daniel S., 369, 414
Stewart, Maj. John D., 211
Stone, Col. William S., 212, 354, 361, 362, 363, 364, 487
Storage and issue platoons, 211
Strait of Messina, 157
Strait of Sicily, 155
Strategic Air Forces, 327
Strohm, Col. John G., 180
Sulfaguanidine, 98
Sulfanilamide crystals, 1
Sultanabad, 76
Summer, Lt. Col. William C., 354
Supplies. See Medical supplies and equipment.
Supply Depots. See Medical supply units, Supply Depots.
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), 376, 385, 405, 486, 532, 541-42
Surgeon General, Office of the, 37, 88, 89, 90, 142, 334
Surgery
evaluation of, in II Corps, 144
exchange, of surgeon, 435
forward, at Anzio, 282
Surgical Groups
2nd Auxiliary, 107, 110, 122, 127, 128, 154, 183, 225, 238, 249, 253, 263, 282, 283, 287, 310, 314, 358, 371, 374, 408, 416-17, 449, 453, 537, 546
3rd Auxiliary, 128, 153, 154, 155
Surgical Hospital, 48th, 107, 113, 113n, 120, 124, 125, 126-27, 129, 132, 144, 145, 185, 188. See also Evacuation Hospitals, numbered, 128th.
Surgical teams, 144, 435, 449, 466, 469
Sward, Col. E. M. P., 27
Sweeney, Col. Leo P. A., 488, 548
Syphilis, 144. See also Venereal disease.
–T–
Talara, 38
Tank Battalion, 758th Light, 424
Tarquinia, 305
Tarviso, 549
Task Forces
45: 415, 417, 418, 418n, 422, 423, 424, 429, 432
92: 422
Tassigny, General Jean de Lattre de, 367, 376
Tébessa, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 132, 137, 142
Technical Supervision Regiment, 2695th, 455, 484, 516
Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Arthur W., 266
Tehran, 64, 74, 76, 79, 82, 86
Tel Litwinsky. See Camps, Tel Litwinsky.
Télergma, 132, 137, 139, 142, 190
Tents, use of, 73, 183, 188, 190, 193, 194
Terceira Island, 29
Termini, 158, 164, 167, 181, 206
Terracina, 270, 292, 295, 296, 303
Terrain, 553. See also Drainage.
effect of, on hospital disposition in Iceland, 12
effect of, on neuropsychiatric rate, 256, 409
injuries caused by, in Greenland, 21
mountainous, 133, 160, 231, 233, 240, 245, 295, 395, 422, 426, 429-30, 433, 457, 460-61
muddy, 189-90, 242, 422, 429, 437, 444, 457
swampy, 285
used to protect casualties, 2, 3, 232
Termoli, 232
Tetanus, 172
Thala, 125
Thélepte, 139
Thistle, 397
Thurmond, Maj. Allen G., 32
Tingay, Col. Lynn H., 149, 358, 413, 453, 487, 515
Tine Valley, 131
Tinsman, Col. Clarence A., 66
Titania, 118
Tlemcen, 189
TORCH. See Algeria-French Morocco Campaign.
Tracy, Col. Edward J., 327
Training and Rehabilitation Center, 88th Infantry Division, 315
Transjordan, 61
Trench foot, 249, 261-62, 285-86, 350, 353, 386, 412-13, 427, 452
Trento, 525
Triage, 14, 171, 171n, 195, 196, 253, 445, 448, 450
Trieste-United States Troops (TRUST) , 549, 550-51
Triflisco, 234
Triflisco Gap, 233
Trinidad, 26, 41, 43, 44, 45, 48, 50
Tripoli Base Command, 64, 79. See also Delta Service Command; Libyan Service Command.
Troop Carrier Command, 168
Troop Carrier Wing, 51st, 138, 139
Tropical syndrome, 97
Truscott, Maj. Gen. Lucian K., Jr., 117, 152, 162, 270, 273, 277, 367, 423-25, 435, 461, 520
TRUST. See Trieste-United States Troops.
Tuberculosis, prevalence of
in Greenland, 21
in Newfoundland, 26
Tuberculosis sanitorium, 331. See also General Hospitals, numbered, 300th.
Tulagi, 552
Tunis, 82, 85, 121, 122, 131, 149, 156, 168, 175, 188, 205, 226, 266, 498, 509, 510
Tunisia, 63, 65, 67, 73, 83, 104, 122, 127, 139-40, 145, 150, 174, 181, 310, 553, 556
Tunisia Campaign, 121-46, 173, 179, 183, 185, 186, 188, 190, 191, 208, 210, 211, 215, 225, 253, 552
Tunisian Desert, 553
Typhoid fever, 30, 172, 363, 452
Typhoid-paratyphoid infections, 98
Typhus, 321, 326, 363-65, 372, 537, 556
in Africa, 67, 83, 106, 216, 220
epidemics of, 262
in the Persian Gulf Service Command, 76
in Sicily, 172
Typhus Commission, 94-95, 363-65
Tyrol, 542
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Udine, 525, 526, 530, 532, 549
United Kingdom, 30, 80, 108, 120
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) , 95
United States Army Forces in Canada, 33
United States Army Forces in Central Africa (USAFICA) , 65, 77
United States Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME) , 60, 62, 80
United States Army Forces, South Atlantic (USAFSA) , 47, 48
United States Forces, European Theater (USFET), 542
United States Military Iranian Mission, 59, 88. See also Iran-Iraq Service Command; Middle East.
United States Military North African Mission, 56-57, 58, 59, 88
University of Palermo Polyclinic Hospital, use of by American personnel, 157, 158, 159, 164
Uruguay, 54
USAFICA. See United States Army Forces in Central Africa.
USAFIME. See United States Army Forces in the Middle East.
USAHS. See Hospital ships; Hospital ships, named.
USPHS. See Public Health Service, United States.
USSR. See Soviet Union.
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Vaccine
distributed by Typhus Commission, 95
shipped by air, 88
suspected as cause of yellow fever in Iceland, 17
used against plague in the Azores, 30
Valdibura, 483
Valmontone, 289, 292, 296, 297, 298
Van Valin, Col. James C., 152
Van Vlack, Col. Hall G., 59, 60, 65
Vatican City, 304
Venereal disease, 249, 291, 317, 321, 333, 350, 353-54, 362, 411-12, 444-45, 452, 483, 489, 513, 526, 530, 556
in Africa, 67, 78, 93-94, 106, 221
at Anzio, 277-78
on Ascension Island, 51
in the Bermuda Base Command, 28-29
in Brazil, 47-48
in Canada, 33
in Eritrea, 93
in Greenland, 21
and houses of prostitution, 92, 93-94, 215, 257, 321, 257-59, 412
in Iceland, 17
in Italy, 257-59
in the Levant Service Command, 93
in the Middle East, 79, 88, 92
in Newfoundland, 26
in the Panama Canal Department, 39
in the Persian Gulf Service Command, 76, 92-93
reduction of rates of, 92, 93, 94, 257-59
use of penicillin against, 94, 258
Venereal disease control officers
in the Fifth Army, 257-58, 279
Venereal Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Centers, 197, 404, 419, 484
162nd Medical Battalion, 249, 258
Fifth Army, 258, 263, 419, 525
Seventh Army, 411-12
Venereal disease hospitals, 249, 277-78, 291, 304, 306-07, 333, 335, 336. See also Station Hospitals, numbered, 53rd, 66th.
Venezia Giulia, 549
Venice, 549
Venturina, 306
Verona, 484, 517, 525, 531, 537
Veteran’s Administration hospital, transfer of patients to, 6
Veterinarian, Ninth Division, 160
Veterinary Companies
36th, 484
Veterinary Corps, 102-03, 263, 320, 517-18
in the Atlantic Defense Area, 9-10
cares for pet animals, 103
in Iceland, 18
in the Middle East, 102
personnel, 11, 64, 103, 146, 218, 263-64
in the South Atlantic theater, 54-55
in Tunisia, 146
Veterinary Evacuation Detachments
643rd, 517
644th, 517
Veterinary hospital, French, 265
Veterinary Hospitals, numbered
1st General (U.S.-It.) , 517
2nd General (U.S.-It.) , 517
Fifth Army Provisional, 265
17th Evacuation, 265, 291, 319, 369, 414
110th Evacuation (It.) , 265, 291, 319, 454, 485
130th Evacuation (It.) , 265, 291, 319, 454, 485
210th Evacuation (It.) , 265
211th Evacuation (It.) , 454, 484-85, 517
212th Station (It.), 454, 484, 516
213th General (It.), 359, 516, 517
2604th Station (Overhead), 517
2605th General (Overhead), 517
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Viareggio, 527
Vienna, 533
Virgin Islands Department, 37
Virus Commission, 99
Visciarro, 265
Vitamin deficiency, chronic, 99-100
Viterbo, 300
Vittoria, 153
Volterra, 307
Volturno River, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 237, 241, 244, 248. 253, 527
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Wade, Brigadier E. W., 106
Walker, Maj Gen. Fred L., 243
Walsh, Brig. Gen. Robert L., 47
Walter Reed Army Hospital, 6
War Department, 41, 103, 219, 345, 346, 347, 363, 496, 504, 514, 521, 533, 545
Ward, Lt. Col. Thomas G., 89
Wardmen, training of, for Fifth Army Neuropsychiatric Center, 255
Water purification, 68, 73, 76, 214. See also Sanitary conditions.
Water supply
adequacy of in the Levant Service Command, 71
contamination and scarcity of, 68, 73
in Eritrea Service Command, 70
in Libya, 73
in the Persian Gulf Service Command, 76
Weather stations. See Meteorological stations.
West, Capt. John L., 517
West African Service Command, 66, 81. See also Central African Command.
Western Task Force, 105, 107, 108, 119, 120, 121, 140, 186
Western Town Command (Africa), 82
Wheeler, Brig. Gen. Raymond A., 59
Whole blood. See Blood, whole.
Wiesbaden conference, development of prisoner exchange program at, 552
Wilbur, Lt. Col. Bernice M., 219, 360, 487
Williams, Lt. Col. O. S., 541
Williams, Col. Wilson C., 361
Wilson, Maj. Gen. A. R., 368
Wilson, General Sir Henry Maitland, 323, 367, 423
Winter Line, 233, 235, 238-43, 245, 249, 251, 261, 263, 265, 285, 340
Winter Line campaign, 241, 333
incidence of trench foot during, 261-62, 285
procurement of pack animals for, 263-65
Women’s Army Corps, 81, 336, 554
Wooten, Maj. Gen. Ralph H., 47
Wounds, combat. See Hospital admissions, for combat wounds.
Wright, Lt. Col. Daniel, 90
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YAK fighter planes, Russian, 321
Yaws, prevalence of, in Africa, 83
Youks-les-Bains, 129, 130, 136, 137, 139
Yugoslavs, use of, in hospitals, 510
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Zanderij Field, 44
Zone of interior, 148, 150, 498, 501, 502, 511, 514, 530, 532, 533. See also Evacuation, chain of, fifth echelon.