The Roy D. Arn papers, 1941-1945.

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The Roy D. Arn papers, 1941-1945.

Contains: official correspondence (1942-1943); reports on mess sanitation, mission of different types of Army hospitals, organization of Army hospitals and Army autopsy procedures (1941-1943); interviews with wounded soldiers at Walter Reed General Hospital (1943); memorandums from the Camp Sutton, N.C. Station Hospital (1943); War Dept. Office of the Surgeon General. CIRCULAR LETTERS (1943); miscellaneous issues of the following periodicals, DAILY PACIFICAN (1945), GUINEA GOLD (1944), HOSPITALES published by the 171st Station Hospital (1944), PINK PILL published by the 117th Station Hospital (1943), JUNGLE JOURNAL (1944), and HOMEWARD HERALD (1945).

1 box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7084885

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Arn, Roy D.

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Roy D. Arn was a United States (U.S.) Army physician on the staff of the 117th Station Hospital during World War II. He attained the rank of major and lieutenant colonel. From the description of Roy D. Arn photograph collection. 1942-1945. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 50861761 Major, U.S. Army, assigned to Station Hospital, Camp Sutton, N.C., 1942-1943. From the description of The Roy D. Arn papers, 1941-1945. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). ...

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