46th General Hospital papers, 1939-1946 (bulk 1940-1942). [1939-1946].

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46th General Hospital papers, 1939-1946 (bulk 1940-1942). [1939-1946].

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Materials pertaining to the organization and staffing of the unit, accelerated programs and curricula for medical students, and refresher courses for returning military medical personnel. Correspondence and memoranda, rosters, reports, records of assignments, transfers, deferments, commissions, recommendations, and commendations, news clippings, and two photographs.

0.83 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Oregon Health & Science University Library, OHSU Library

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Oregon Health & Science University Library, OHSU Library

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United States. Army Medical Service. 46th General Hospital.

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Unit had been on inactive status at the University of Oregon Medical School since World War I, when it had functioned as Base Hospital No. 46. Alerted to prepare for activation on March 11, 1940, by order of Major James C. Magee, Surgeon General of the United States Army. The War Department appointed J. Guy Strohm, M.D., as unit director during the organizational period and as commanding officer during active duty. Unit activated on July 15, 1943; proceeded to Fort Riley, Kansas; later ordered t...

University of Oregon. Medical School

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George Earle Chamberlain (b.1913), grandson and namesake of the former governor and senator of Oregon, son of otolaryngologist Dr. Charles Thomson Chamberlain. He received a BA from the University of Oregon in 1936, and an MD from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1938. Chamberlain served as captain and resident physician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during WWII. He began serving in 1941, when he was stationed in New York, N. Y.,at the New York Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary. He ...