Bliss) to report on Hospitalization and Evacuation methods. Late 1940, the Medical Department dispatched an official Observer (Col. US Military Observers were sent to Great Britain to keep abreast of British wartime technical developments and to study the overall British war effort (the United States was not yet at war). The initial objective was to establish Army Forces in the British Isles in order to protect them from a possible enemy invasion another objective was to relieve a number of British troops for operations in the Mediterranean, and to reinforce the Royal Air Force with aircraft and personnel. ![]() The European Theater of Operations which was to conduct the US Army’s largest and most complex land campaign of WW2 and complete the destruction of Nazi Germany, had rather modest beginnings! In agreement with its Allies, the United States Government decided to deal with ‘Germany first’ … ![]() Mid-46, only 21 Hospitals remained with a total of 12,000 beds. ![]() The building was a former German ‘Reserve-Lazarett (local reserve, or emergency hospital) which was taken over by American Occupation Forces. Revised post V-J Day hospitalization plans for Germany provided 38 Hospitals to serve the US Occupation Forces, including 8 General Hospitals – 10 Field Hospitals – and 1 Convalescent Hospital. By 1 Jan 46, this number was already down to 35 Hospitals, of which 16 were non-operational, awaiting re-deployment or inactivation. View of a General Hospital, at Bayreuth, Germany, late August 45.
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