93rd Evacuation Hospital (United States)

The 61st Surgical Hospital was a 100-bed field hospital. It was converted in 1942 to a 400-bed semi-mobile evacuation hospital with a staff of 40 doctors, 43 nurses, and 6 administrative officers and organized as the 93rd Evacuation Hospital (Motorized).{{Cite web|title=93rd Evacuation Hospital (Motorized)|url=https://www.members.tripod.com/msg_fisher/93evac-3.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022091414/https://www.members.tripod.com/msg_fisher/93evac-3.html|archive-date=2019-10-22|url-status=live}}

• 1942–1943 – Training at Fort Meade, Maryland
• April 1943 – Embarkation at Camp Shanks, Orangeberg, New York
• April 15, 1943 – Depart for North Africa aboard USS Mariposa
• April 23, 1943 – Arrival at Casablanca, Morocco
• May 1943 – Relocated by train to Oran, Algeria at Camp Goat Hill{{Cite web|date=2014-05-15|title=Oran, Algeria|url=http://www.rogue-publishing.com/51st/rulison/Oran,_Algeria.htm|access-date=2021-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515123207/http://www.rogue-publishing.com/51st/rulison/Oran,_Algeria.htm|archive-date=2014-05-15}}
• June 1943 – Tizi, Algeria
• July 1943 – Palm Beach, Algiers, Algeria
• July 13, 1943 – Gela, Sicily in Operation Husky
• July 25, 1943 – Pretralia, Sicily
• August 1943 – San Stephano, Sicily
• September 15, 1943 – Paestum, Italy
• October 2, 1943 – Montella, Italy
• October 1943 – Avellino, Italy
• October 24, 1943 – January 9, 1944 – Piano de Ciazzo, Italy
• January 1944 – Naples, Italy
• January 23, 1944 – Anzio, Italy as part of Operation Shingle{{Cite web|title=[93rd Evacuation Hospital]|url=https://stimson.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15290coll4/id/264/rec/5|access-date=2021-09-05|website=stimson.contentdm.oclc.org|language=en}}
• January 29, 1944 – Nattuna, Italy with the U.S. 95th Evacuation Hospital
• April 17, 1944 – Caserta, Italy
• Additional locations in Italy
• August 9, 1944 – Naples, Italy and embark
• August 15, 1944 – Operation Dragoon D-Day H-6 landing St Maxime, France
• Additional locations in France
• Ardennes, France - Battle of the Bulge
• December 19, 1944 – Bischwiller, Germany
• April, 1945 - Dachau Concentration Camp
• May 8 - July 8, 1945 - Germany
• December 12, 1945 - Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, Inactivated{{Cite web|title=[93rd Evacuation Hospital]|url=https://stimson.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15290coll4/id/264/rec/2|access-date=2021-09-05|website=stimson.contentdm.oclc.org|language=en}}

• Colonel Currier, Commanding Officer
• Major Thompson, Executive Officer
• Major Franklin Weimar Fry, Chief of Medicine and Registrar
• Chaplain McMillan
• Lt. D'Imperio
• Major Etter, Evacuation Officer
• Joseph William Genelius,{{Citation|last1=Genelius|first1=Joseph William|title=Joseph William Genelius Collection|url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.15976/|others=Thomas Swope, Legacies: Stories from the Second World War|access-date=2021-09-05|last2=Swope|first2=Thomas}} Medic, Technician Five
• Jeanne A. Carter Wells,{{Citation|last1=Wells|first1=Jeanne A. Carter|title=Jeanne A. Wells Collection|url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.65018/|others=Annette Gray, Douglas County History Research Center, Douglas County Libraries|access-date=2021-09-05|last2=Seter-Berman|first2=Julie}} Nurse, First Lieutenant
• Cleo A. Dupy,{{Citation|last1=Dupy|first1=Cleo A.|title=Cleo A. Dupy Collection|url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.21773/|others=Owen Reynolds, AARP, Oklahoma|access-date=2021-09-05|last2=Stout|first2=William}} Corporal
• Dr. Quinby DeHart Gurnee

Operation Husky

Operation Shingle

Operation Dragoon

Battle of the Bulge

Colmar Pocket

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

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

• List of former United States Army medical units

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• [http://members.tripod.com/msg_fisher/93evac.html 93rd Evac History]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721103840/http://unitpages.military.com/unitpages/unit.do?id=108048&ESRC=unitpages.kw Military.com Unit Pages]
• [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1207376 93rd Evacuation Hospital: Histories]
• [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/14081 SURGERY IN THE FIELD, 93RD EVACUATION HOSPITAL, ITALY]

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