General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. DAMAGE TO COMMERCIAL AND NAVY SHIPS IN SNOWSTORM AT YOKOSUKA, JAPAN; GEN. HUME (MC) VISITS LSD-1091, NAVY's FIRST DISEASE CONTROL SHIP
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Hume, Edgar Erskine, 1889-1952
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Edgar Erskine Hume, a major general in the U.S. Army medical corps, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1889. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Centre College in Danville and earned a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1913. He entered the U.S. Army medical corps in 1916 and commanded all American hospitals in Italy before transferring to France near the end of World War I. He later directed the American Red Cross in Serbia during a typhus epidemic. During World War II,...
