THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT:
HOSPITALIZATION AND EVACUATION,
ZONE OF INTERIOR
UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II
The Technical Services
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT:
HOSPITALIZATION AND
EVACUATION,
ZONE OF INTERIOR
by
Clarence McKittrick Smith
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON, D. C., 1956
This volume, one of the series UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLDWAR II, is the first to be published in the group of Medical Department volumesin the subseries THE TECHNICAL SERVICES. All the volumes will be closely relatedand the series will present a comprehensive account of the activities of theMilitary Establishment during World War II. A tentative list of subseries isappended at the end of this volume.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 54-60005
REPRINTED 1966
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. GovernmentPrinting Office
Washington 25, D. C. - Price$4 (Cloth)
UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II
Kent Roberts Greenfield, General Editor*
Advisory Committee
(As of 1 June 1954)
James P. Baxter
President, Williams College
Gordon A. Craig
Princeton University
Elmer Ellis
University of Missouri
William T. Hutchinson
University of Chicago
Charles H. Taylor
Harvard University
Maj. Gen. Elwyn D. Post
Army Field Forces
Brig. Gen. Verdi B. Barnes
Army War College
Brig. Gen. C. E. Beauchamp
Command and General Staff College
Brig. Gen. Leonard J. Greeley
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
Col. Thomas D. Stamps
United States Military Academy
Office of the Chief of Military History
Maj. Gen. Albert C. Smith, Chief
Chief Historian
Chief, War Histories Division
Chief, Editorial and Publication Division
Chief, Editorial Branch
Chief, Cartographic Branch
Chief, Photographic Branch
Kent Roberts Greenfield
Col. G. G. O'Connor
Lt. Col. T. E. Bennett
Joseph R. Friedman
Wsevolod Aglaimoff
Maj. Arthur T Lawry
*General Editor of the Technical Service volumes, Lt. Col, LeoJ. Meyer, Deputy Chief Historian.
History of
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
prepared under the direction of Maj. Gen. S. B. Hays,
The Surgeon General, U.S. Army
. . . to Those Who Served
