60th PTBL SURG HOSP – mid Oct 44 Burma – 45 China Offensive Railway of Thailand replaced the three damaged spans with two steel Located fifty five kilometres north of Prior to the formation of the Corps. 6th PTBL SURG HOSP – New Guinea – New Britain (worked aboard LST-H) – 13 Jan 45 Luzon The Portable Surgical Hospitals provided skilled surgical care in rugged jungle environment and could be set up and moved within a relative short time; patients and medical facilities were usually kept under canvas or temporary huts. Because of malaria, those patients who, after treatment, were expected to remain unfit for duty more than 14 days, were usually sent to mainland Australia (Townsville or Brisbane). in 1945 the British Army dismantled 3.95 kms. Very cruel. Of course, we should not forget, that in December 1941, Britain and America had agreed to concentrate their combined forces against Germany FIRST! 43d FLD HOSP – 9 Jan 45 Luzon Begun in October 1942, using prisoner bombing during the war period. 735th MED SN CO – Feb 45 Manila, Philippines 20th GEN HOSP – 19 Jan 43 India – Dec 43 Burma (activated 15 May 42) 1 and 2, burying a number of the occupants. 336th STA HOSP – 27 Nov 42 New Caledonia 45th PTBL SURG HOSP – mid Oct 44 Burma  – 45 China Offensive the edge of the Kwai Noi River. The Hospital arrived in Manila 1 Mar 45, and was able to take over treatment of numerous casualties, at a time when the Leyte Hospitals were full, and the Sixth US Army installations were lacking medical capacity. 43d PTBL SURG HOSP – late 43 Burma – 45 China Offensive 22d FLD HOSP – 45 China 142d GEN HOSP – 26 May 42 New Zealand – 43 Fiji – Nov 44 India (ex-217th GEN HOSP, activated 1 Jun 41, supplied cadres for other units, 28 Feb 44) (new 142d GEN HOSP activated 20 Apr 42) bridge commonly known as the Wampo viaduct. 25th EVAC HOSP – 19 Oct 42 New Zealand – Nov 42 Espiritu Santo (constituted with elements of 23d EVAC HOSP) They often had to evacuate casualties from temporary forward Aid Stations, and run a Collecting Station, in a harsh and hostile environment. The road wheels would be lowered into position when to Nong Pladuk Station conforming to operational permanent way line to Nam Tok Station and to upgrade the remaining length of 130.204 Nome Post STA HOSP – Alaska Australian forces: Service records of members of Australian forces are held by the National Archives of Australia.You can apply to the National Archives for copies of personal service records. 9th MED SUP DEP – Nov 42 Papua. from Wang Pho to Nam Tok Stations on 1 July 1958. Chi-Ha Shinhoto in Burma (cdts wio.ru) What is called the “Pacific Campaign” was, in reality, a composite of several campaigns in the whole Asian theater of operations, spanning a far larger area than the Western and African campaigns. 30th PTBL SURG HOSP – 44 New Guinea – Bismarck Archipelago – Leyte – Luzon (ex-30th SURG HOSP) (activated 7 Jun 43) (inactivated 31 Oct 45 in Japan) The date was dubbed In order to simplify wartime operations, the Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff on 24 March 1942,  assigned the United States ‘responsibility’ for the conduct of the war in the Pacific! 57th PTBL SURG HOSP – 13 Jan 45 Luzon The two main viaducts followed the 331st STA HOSP – 28 Nov 42 New Caledonia 34th PTBL SURG HOSP – 44 Burma – Apr 45 China Ft. Glenn STA HOSP – Umnak Is, Aleutians A view of Tamarkan prisoner of war 94th STA HOSP – 8 Mar 44 Bombay (India) – 11 Jan 45 Luzon – 17 Sep 45 Honshu (Japan) (activated 19 Aug 42, inactivated 15 Dec 45) 82d STA HOSP – 44 Papua-New Guinea 41st FLD HOSP – 9 Jan 45 Luzon – 15 Feb 45 Manila 148th GEN HOSP – 21 Mar 42 Hawaii – 31 May 44 Saipan Is (activated 10 Feb 41) 70th MED BN – Jan 45 Luzon 36th Evacuation Hospital, at Palo, Leyte, Philippines, October 44. 2) 728th MED SN CO – Oct 44 Leyte, Philippines 18th PTBL SURG HOSP – 14 Sep 42 Australia – Nov 42 Papua – 43 New Guinea – Feb 45 Philippines – 45 Japan (ex-18th SURG HOSP) (activated 14 Sep 42 in Australia) (inactivated 1 Dec 45 in Japan) Personal service records. the film was restored, the names of Wilson and Foreman were added The region was divided into 2 separate Commands – on 18 April 1942, Lt. General Douglas MacArthur became Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) covering the Philippines, Australia, the Netherlands East Indies, and New Guinea – on 8 May 1942, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was named Commander Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPAC) including the vast region stretching from the Bering Straits to Antartica, including the Hawaiian Islands and Japan itself. 135th MED BN – Dec 44 Leyte – Jan 45 Luzon construction work. Military chocolate has been a part of the standard United States military ration since the original Ration D or D ration bar of 1937. 27th PTBL SURG HOSP – Jun 43 Admiralty Is – 26 Oct 44 Leyte It served, together with the 58th Evac Hosp, in the Leyte and Luzon Campaigns. Railway of Thailand in 1947. 2. 204th GEN HOSP – 8 Apr 42 Hawaii (activated 10 Feb 41) 26th STA HOSP – 31 Jan 42 Canton Is (activated 10 Feb 41) 234th GEN HOSP 147th GEN HOSP – 16 Jun 42 Hawaii – 19 Nov 43 Gilberts – 1 Aug 44 Hawaii (activated 1 May 41) 99th STA HOSP – 27 May 42 India (activated 28 Apr 42) Formed and lead by Major-General Orde Wingate DSO, they fought behind enemy lines in Northern Burma during 1943 and 1944 in the War against Japan. and Ack Ack battery on 5 February 1945, a further fifteen POWs were uncredited, blacklisted co-scripting authors (exiled Carl Foreman 20th FLD HOSP – 11 May 43 Aleutian Is. 251st STA HOSP – 15 Aug 44 Papua-New Guinea Ft. Richardson STA HOSP – Alaska 1st EVAC HOSP – 4 Mar 42 Australia (activated 1 Aug 40) 1970). 151st MED BN – Aug 43 Burma (supported Merrill’s Marauders, and provided an AIR CLR STA for British and Chinese casualties). 1943. As War erupted in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a state of National Emergency in September 1939, and in August 1940, Congress summoned the National Guard into Federal service and called-up the Reserves! 133d GEN HOSP – 25 Nov 44 Leyte 362d STA HOSP – 43 Papua-New Guinea Burma, 1942 7 December 1941-26 May 1942 On 8 December 1941, after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan and became an active participant in World War II. 37th FLD HOSP – 43 New Guinea – 9 Jan 45 Luzon memoirs of the 'real' Colonel Nicholson were compiled into a 17th PTBL SURG HOSP – Nov 42 Papua – New Guinea Subsequently, the section between Nong Pladuk and Kanchanaburi 18th GEN HOSP – 12 Jun 42 N. Zealand – 3 Oct 42 Fiji Islands – Sep 44 Ledo Road (India) – 12 Mar 45 Myitkyina, (Burma) (activated 20 Apr 42) (closed 5 Oct 45) (return to ZI 24 Nov 45) Medical units were advised to include in their organization one well-qualified plumber, one electrician, and two carpenters. The units were constructed and disassembled by medical personnel, assisted by engineers, and could be transported by aircraft. Free shipping for many products! 1 – Limay, Philippines Picture taken in spring of 42. which was located approximately two kilometres north on Kanchanaburi, on  11 47th STA HOSP – 18 Feb 42 Australia – 44 Papua-New Guinea (activated 18 Jun 41) 335th STA HOSP – (all-Black Hosp, activated 1 Aug 43) 455th FLD HOSP. Temporary wooden crosses on the It was also pivotal. spans, the temporary bridge was dismantled to ease off river traffic 172d GEN HOSP – 44 India – Burma – 45 China (activated 29 Jul 44) (inactivated 30 Apr 46 in China) 9th STA HOSP – 23 Jan 42 Australia – 27 Mar 42 New Caledonia – Guadalcanal (activated 11 Feb 41) 176th STA HOSP – 31 May 44 Saipan Is 30th EVAC HOSP – 14 Oct 43 New Guinea – 2 Feb 44 New Britain – 2 Jul 44 New Guinea – 27 May 45 Philippines – 17 Dec 45 Japan (activated 15 Jul 42) (inactivated 31 Jan 46 Japan) railway track. Armed Services,