American Surgeons at Musgrave Park Hospital in World War II: Surgical Giants
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The 5th General Hospital embarked from New York on 19 February 1942. Seven Medical Officers, 28 Nurse Officers and 14 Enlisted Men were placed on various ships of the convoy but the remaining personnel were assigned to a single ship. This vessel, the American Legion, broke down in the Atlantic and subsequently returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The detached 7 Medical Officers (including Lt. Col. Ted Badger, to be Chief of Medicine at Musgrave Park) arrived in early March of 1942. The U.S. Nurse Officers were distributed between the 31st General and the 10th Station Hospital and the 136th Medical Regiment of the U.S. 34th Infantry Division, which had arrived in January 19422,3. On 12 May 1942, the main body of the 5th General Hospital arrived at Musgrave Park. Key personnel are seen in Figure 1. Some of the U.S. personnel were stationed at Carrickfergus and commuted2. On May 20, I1 attended the handover ceremony from British to US occupancy at Musgrave Park1. Within a fortnight, 12 wards were open and Musgrave Park was ready to care for 400 patients. By June 1942, this capacity was exceeded and Lt. Colonel Thomas Lanman became CO of an additional unit, Waringfield, a former British Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Hospital 20 miles from Musgrave Park (Table 1A). Peak patient census of 1,500 was reached that August (Table 1B).
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دوره 85 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016