Robert J.T. Joy papers 1862-1984.

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Robert J.T. Joy papers 1862-1984.

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Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, reports, orders, articles, and charts. Contains information pertaining to the following wars and time periods: Civil War -- Gulf; World War II (WWII) European Theater of Operations, China-Burma-India, Middle East, Mediterranean, Pacific, Balkans, Post WWII Occupation -- Germany, Japan; Vietnam War. Contains information pertaining to the following military organizations): United States of America Typhus Commission. General description of the collection: The J.T. Joy papers include historian's material on Typhus Commission during WWII. Includes some personnel records; documents on Commission Medal, award criteria and award presentations; documents on epidemics in Japan, Belsen Concentration Camp and elsewhere. Also contains Civil War general order on medical reports, and computer records of selected casualties in Vietnam.

6 boxes.

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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Joy, Robert J.T.

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Robert J. T. Joy received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island in 1950 and graduated from the Yale School of Medicine in 1954. He trained in internal medicine at the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C. Joy served in the army from 1954 to 1981, rising to the rank of colonel. He was commander of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Team in Vietnam and later Director of the WRAIR. In 1976 he founded the department of military medicine at the Uniformed Services University ...

United States. Typhus Commission.

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The Surgeon General established the U.S.A. Typhus Commission in November 1942. It had three purposes: research, prevention, and care of the sick in North Africa and Europe where war-caused conditions encouraged epidemic typhus outbreaks. Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones played a prominent role in formulating the plans which established the Typhus Commission. He carried most of the responsibility for the organization and administration of the Commission, first unofficially, later as a member, and finally...