China-Burma-India Theater of World War II SEAGRAVE HOSPITAL UNIT AT TAGAP GA, BURMA IN AUGUST OF 1943 HOSPITALS MAP TYPES PICTURES ORDERS STORY NURSES |
HOSPITAL UNIT | LOCATION | YEARS |
14th EVAC. HOSPITAL | LEDO ROAD MILE 19 | 1943-45 |
18th GENERAL HOSPITAL | LEDO - MYITKYINA | 1945 |
19th EVAC. HOSPITAL | CHINA - BURMA | UNKNOWN |
20th GENERAL HOSPITAL | MARGHERITA (NEAR LEDO) | 1943-45 |
21st FIELD HOSPITAL | PAO-SHAN | 1945 |
22nd FIELD HOSPITAL | CHAN-I, CHINA | 1945 |
24th STATION HOSPITAL | JORHAT | 1945 |
25th FIELD HOSPITAL | LEDO - LASHIO | 1943-45 |
27th FIELD HOSPITAL | TSUYUNG (Y-FORCE 1944) - KWEIYANG - TUYUEN | 1943-45 |
28th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | CHINA (CHINA DRAGONS) | 1943-45 |
30th STATION HOSPITAL | PANAGARH | 1943 |
32nd PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | CHINA | 1943 |
34th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | HUNAN, CHINA | 1943 |
35th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | CHINA | 1943 |
40th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | Y-FORCE YUNNAN PROVINCE | 1943-45 |
42nd PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | LEDO (1943) - MYITKYINA (1944) | 1943-45 |
43rd PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | KAMAING, BURMA | 1944-45 |
44th FIELD HOSPITAL | BURMA | 1943-45 |
44th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | BURMA. CHINA, MARS TASK FORCE | 1943-46 |
45th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | KAMAING-MOGAUNG, BURMA - KWEILIN-LUICHOW-SHANGHAI-FORMOSA, CHINA | 1943-45 |
46th PORTABLE HOSPITAL | LEDO (1943) - HSIPAW, BURMA (1944) | 1943-46 |
47th GENERAL HOSPITAL | NEW GUINEA - TENGCHUNG, BURMA | 1944-45 |
48th EVAC. HOSPITAL | RAMGARH - NEAR MARGHERITA - MYITKYINA | 1943-45 |
48th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | CHINA - INDIA | UNKNOWN |
49th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | BURMA | 1944 |
50th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | CHINA | 1943 |
53rd PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | CHINA | 1943 |
58th PORT. SURGICAL HOSPITAL | MYITKYINA | 1944 |
63rd GENERAL HOSPITAL | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN |
69th GENERAL HOSPITAL | MARGHERITA (NEAR LEDO) | 1945 |
70th FIELD HOSPITAL | LEDO - CHENGTU - KUNMING - CALCUTTA | 1944 |
71st FIELD HOSPITAL | BOMBAY - KANCHRAPARA | 1944-45 |
72nd FIELD HOSPITAL | TEZPUR, INDIA (1944) - YENSHAN, CHINA | 1944-45 |
73rd EVAC. HOSPITAL | LEDO (1943) - SHINGBWIYANG (1944) | 1943-45 |
94th STATION HOSPITAL | PIARDOBA | 1945 |
95th STATION HOSPITAL | CHUBUA 1943 - KUNMING 1943-45 | 1943-45 |
97th STATION HOSPITAL | AGRA | 1942 |
98th STATION HOSPITAL | RAMGARH (1942) - CHAKULIA (1943) - SHINGBWIYANG (1945) | 1942-45 |
99th STATION HOSPITAL | GAYA | 1942 |
100th STATION HOSPITAL | NEW DELHI | 1942-45 |
111th STATION HOSPITAL | CHABUA (then became 234th) | 1943 |
112th STATION HOSPITAL | KARACHI - CALCUTTA | 1943-45 |
118th GENERAL HOSPITAL | KARACHI | UNKNOWN |
142nd GENERAL HOSPITAL | FIJI ISLAND - CALCUTTA | 1943-45 |
159th STATION HOSPITAL | KARACHI | 1942 |
172nd GENERAL HOSPITAL | KUNMING - SHANGHAI (1945-46) | 1945-46 |
178th STATION HOSPITAL | LALMANIRHAT | UNKNOWN |
181st GENERAL HOSPITAL | KARACHI | 1943 |
198th STATION HOSPITAL | DACCA | UNKNOWN |
234th GENERAL HOSPITAL | CHABUA (started as 111th) | 1945 |
263rd GENERAL HOSPITAL | KARACHI - CALCUTTA (replaced by 142nd) | 1943 |
335th STATION HOSPITAL | LEDO ROAD MILE 80, TAGAP GA, BURMA | 1944 |
371st STATION HOSPITAL | RAMGARH | 1942-45 |
372nd STATION HOSPITAL | KALIAKUNDA | UNKNOWN |
383rd STATION HOSPITAL | TAGAP GA, BURMA | 1944 |
455th FIELD HOSPITAL | (Started as 172nd, 455th in 1949) | 1943-45 |
498th HOSPITAL SHIP | NAVY U.S.S. COMFORT | 1944-45 |
594th MEDICAL HOSPITAL | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN |
803rd MEDICAL AIR EVAC. | CHABUA, ASSAM, INDIA | 1944-45 |
SEAGRAVES HOSPITAL UNIT | NAMKHAM (prior to 1942) - RAMGARH (1942) - MYITKYINA (1944) | 1942-45 |
HOSPITAL TYPE | PATIENT CAPACITY | OFFICERS | NURSES | ENLISTED | TOTAL | NOTE |
GENERAL | 1000 | 75 | 120 | 500 | 692 |   |
EVACUATION | 750 | 47 | 52 | 318 | 417 |   |
CONVALESCENT | 3000 | 28 | 0 | 189 | 217 |   |
SURGICAL | 400 | 50 | 60 | 275 | 385 |   |
FIELD | 400 | 22 | 18 | 182 | 222 | |
STATION | 750 | 49 | 90 | 390 | 529 | for Station with 15,000 troops |
STATION | 500 | 35 | 60 | 275 | 370 | for Station with 10,000 troops |
STATION | 250 | 20 | 30 | 150 | 200 | for Station with 5,000 troops |
Station Hospitals of 250 or less beds were commanded by a Lt. Colonel. All other Hospitals by a Colonel. Station Hospitals were allocated in varying sizes down to 50 beds. |
R E S T R I C T E D ) UNITED STATES ARMY ) BALTIMORE,MARYLAND NUMBER 111 ) May 9, 1942. * * * * * * 1. Pursuant to instructions contained in ltr, SGO, Washington,DC, SPMCN 211 (Nurses - 20th General Hosp)K, subject: ANC, 5 May 1942,and authority contained in 1st Ind, WD, A.G. 210.3 Nurses (5-5-42)0A,6 May 1942, each of the following named nurses asgd to 20th Gen Hosp,will proceed on or about 17 May 1942, fr Philadelphia, Pa, to Camp Claiborne, La, reporting on arrival there at to the CO for asgmt to temp duty at the Sta Hosp pending shipment of the 20th Gen Hosp: The travel directed is necessary in the military service. FD 31 P-02 A 0425-23; QM 1624 P 57-07 A 0525-2.In lieu of actual expenses for subsistence a per diem of $4.00 is prescribed. Travel by privately ownedconveyance (AR 35-4820) is authorized. (210.3 Nurses) R E S T R I C T E D |
JULIA S. BARNES 69th General Hospital. Tragically died with 13 other nurses when a C-47 transport carrying them crashed on March 4, 1945. |
GERALDINE L. BOOCK Geraldine "Gerry" Boock graduated from nursing school in 1944, and she and several of her classmates decided to join the war effort. One of her friends volunteered the two of them for overseas duty, and after six weeks at sea, she landed in Calcutta, where she worked with patients wounded or taken ill at the 142nd General Hospital. She wasn t immune to an occasional bout of dysentery; she also encountered a shifty snake charmer, and, on a moonlight visit to the Taj Mahal, an amorous British soldier. After the war ended, she stayed on in India until spring 1946 and in the Army until December of that year. Her last assignment was in a California hospital obstetrics ward, as different an experience as possible from her sojourn in India. MORE |
DOROTHY A. CABINISS 1st Lt. Dorothy A. Cabaniss, was recruited from Charlotte Memorial Hospital, Charlotte, N.C. by Dr. Addison G. Brenizer who was organizing a base hospital unit. Nov. 10, 1942 she joined the Army Nurse Corps and took the oath of office. Nov. 21, 1942 she arrived at Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 21, 1943 they were sent to Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga., for training. They were forming the 111th General Hospital. They left Camp Wheeler and arrived at Camp Anza, Calif. July 6th, 1943. They sailed on the US Army transport Uruguay on August 3, 1943. They arrived Sept. 10, 1943 in Bombay, India. On Sept. 13th they boarded His Majesty's Troop ship The Nevasa and sailed for Calcutta. Then they rode an Indian river boat from Dhubrito to Pandu. They stopped and spent time at a Baptist Mission Hospital. Then they rode an Indian train and arrived at Chabua. On Oct. 5, 1943 they had the 111th General Hospital up and running with 165 patients. A year later they had 900 patients. Dorothy was stationed there until Oct. 1945, when she came back to the States and was stationed at Battey General Hospital until she was out of the Army. |
LOUISE R. CAMDEN Major, Chief Nurse, 69th General Hosp., Ledo. MORE. |
POLLY CHANDLER 371st Station Hospital (Ramgarh Post Hospital) |
GLADYS LOUISE CHRIST Served with the 14th Evacuation Hospital at Ledo, Assam, India. In charge of surgical ward, taking care of Chinese military personnel.Also served with the 142nd General Hospital in Calcutta.Did general duty nursing, orthopedic, surgical and medical nursing.Also worked on the Manhattan Project. |
HARLON CLARY 142nd General Hospital. Aug. 10, 1942 to Feb. 11, 1946. Burma, India, Fiji. |
MAJOR AUDREY B. COCHRAN I was called to active duty in January 1941 and left in September, 1942 for service in Africa, Egypt, Palestine and Persia.After further assignment in the U.S. I flew to Karachi, India and although eligible to return, remained for duty at the 100th Station Hospital in New Delhi, the 98th Station Hospital, Piradoba and 142nd General Hospital in Calcutta. I returned to active duty with the Air Force for 16 years, serving in Alaska and Germany and then retired. |
MARGARET DAISY DOUGLAS 20th General Hospital |
EVELYN GERDRUM 69th General Hospital. Tragically died with 13 other nurses when a C-47 transport carrying them crashed on March 4, 1945. |
ELIZABETH EMMONS GUSSAK We, the 69th General Hospital, shipped from Newport News, Virginia, April 1943 and arrived in Bombay, India.When arriving in Assam we were all on detached service and later reorganized and a few months later movedinto our new area near Ledo. When the war in Europe ended we were sent to Okinawa to stage for the invasionof Japan. Unfortunately while in Okinawa we experienced the worst typhoon they had had in 30 years.We were released there and sent home arriving in Portland, Oregon in November 1945. |
MARY MARTINDALE HARPER 159th Station Hospital and 181st General Hospital, Karachi (Sind Desert). |
BRIG. GEN. ANNA MAE HAYES When World War II began, she volunteered for service in the Army Nurse Corps. She was assigned to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital Unit which emerged in India as the 20th General Hospital. Hayes stayed in the Army doing another stint of foreign service in Korea. She became the chief nurse in a series of Army hospitals including Walter Reed, advanced to the grade of Colonel and was selected to head the Army Nurse Coprs in September 1967. Several years later was promoted to Brig. General. General Hayes retired from the Army on August 31, 1971 with 30 years of service at which time General Westmoreland presented her with the Distinguished Service Medal. |
OLIVE LUCAS Olive graduated from Harlem Hospital School of Nursing and worked as an ER Nurse for 5 years at the hospital before enlisting in the Army. She was among the first Negro nurses admitted to the Army Nurse Corps in World War II. Her first assignment was to the segregated all black hospital at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, in November 1942. Next posting was to the 335th Station Hospital in Tagap, Burma in August 1944. The nurses traveled by air from New York City to Karachi, India where they first spent six-weeks attached to the 48th Evacuation Hospital. In October 1945 they established their hospital at Tagap, Burma, along the Ledo Road. The 335th was de-activated in October 1945 and returned to Fort Huachuca. Olive left the Army in 1945. MORE |
AGNES MALEY Nurse Director, India-Burma Theater |
ANN MERRILL 69th General Hospital and 73rd Evac Hospital. Tragically died with 13 other nurses when a C-47 transport carrying them crashed on March 4, 1945. |
VIRGINIA C. MOORE 20th General Hospital |
BEATRICE K. SMITH (BEATRICE KINLEY TOURIN) Departed Indiana with the 69th General Hospital, serving in Assam, India before joining the 73rd Evacuation Hospital in Burma. Later she was sent to Okinawa via the Philippines in anticipation of the invasion of Japan. The atomic bombs ended the war before the invasion was necessary and she returned home via Portland, Oregon and was discharged at Des Moines, Iowa. |
BERNICE V. TAYLOR Joined the Army Nurses Corps and was deployed to Burma with the 73rd Evacuation Hospital Unit at Shingbwiyang after arriving from Los Angeles in February, 1943. She transferred out of that unit and was sent to Calcutta before being sent back to the U.S. She weighed 98 lbs. in her dress uniform when she returned. Soon after she arrived in Burma, a photographer took her picture riding on a jeep with a fellow nurse, dressed in khaki fatigues and combat boots. That picture was circulated to newspapers across the U.S. Milton Caniff, an illustrator for a war-time comic strip "Terry and the Pirates" saw her picture and wanted to use her likeness for his newest comic character, Nurse Taffy Tucker. When he contacted her, she said he would have to get permission from her mother. After three letters from Mr. Caniff to her mother, she finally consented and sent Bernice s service picture to him. A large number of girls auditioned for the part, but Milton Caniff said, "Miss Bernice Taylor of White Cloud, Kansas, is the perfect Nurse Taffy Tucker." During her military career, she served in Japan, England and various locations in the United States. Bernice retired in June 1966 as a Lieutenant Colonel. She loved the military life, and exemplified the dedicated women of the Army Nurse Corps who served in The Forgotten War of the Pacific. |
ETHEL G. YAVORSKY I was inducted into the Army Nurse Corps in May 1941. In March I sailed from Charleston aboard the SS Brazil and arrived in Karachi, India in May 1942. My overseas assignments include the 159th Station Hospital and the 181st General Hospital Karachi and the S.O.S. Hospital in Chakulia, India. I returned to the U. S. in October 1944. From March 1953 to March 1955 I served with the Army Nurse Corps in Japan. |
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