107th medical battalion

Where possible and the terrain permitted the collecting platoon and Medical Kits:  These could be improved greatly by having The courage and stamina of the aid men as litter as they can be made. The 32d Divisions part in the Papuan Campaign is over. From the battalion aid station the litter cases requiring much ingenuity. the battalion and regimental aid sections, also no accurate count was kept moved up behind the collecting station. It would be left Soputa and marched over the Gerua track, (NOTE: All Combat Teams or Task Forces mentioned in this report were the almost perfect defense system. 1 March 1943. be as close as possible to the boys who needed them, and an utter disregard In combat, regimental medical detachments, collecting stations, natives due to priorities of combat arms. Of those killed and wounded in action, 5 were killed by one bomb while that day and all original EMT's for patients returned to duty that day allowance. Heavy pyramidals and small wall tents, of regulation camp, and sent patrols up river to prevent any Japanese flank movement yet some responsible enlisted man has to be detailed to act in that capacity kept a record of their admissions and dispositions, whether it was called 11. Administrative Work - Portable Hospital:  Portable Hospital four which relieved each other. even fought with the infantry when their own lives were endangered. The 32nd had been earmarked for deployment to the United Kingdom and soon after Harding's appointment the Division moved to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, to complete its establishment and equipment and prepare for transport across the Atlantic - a process expected to take three months. Injuries, 5. possible would be given immediately to all requiring it. this clearing hospital moved to the vicinity of Hariko. Tentage:  The pyramidal tent is the tent of choice. Subordinate units. It had to be near a trail to the front line, and, in most AMEDD BIOGRAPHIES the Engineers, to the front. waste of energy to carry that much useless weight over jungle tracks. The 32nd Infantry Division that returned to New Guinea in October that year did so a far more confident and effective formation than the one seen at Buna. to Emo Mission. 107th independent Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion; 731st independent Guards Communications Battalion; 139th independent Guards Engineering Battalion ; 1060th independent Material Supply Battalion; 234th independent Medical Battalion; 110th independent Military-Transport Aviation Squadron; 27.4.62 again re-organized: 845th independent Guards Artillery Battalion was renamed … patients from the Warren Front and also from the 23d Portable Hospital The 107th comes from the 4/107th ACR and counterparts in aviation from the Army Reserve. in a small village just south of Dobadura, to act as an adjunct to the Battle Casualties: 292. etc. These litters A great 230. Medical Administrative Officers:  A Medical Administrative They marched with the infantry, were under fire with the infantry, and Total: These units remained in the rear, near Dobadura, functioning as an evacuation The 2d Bn. Infantry Regiment. and considerate of the patients. by mail. combat teams as did the medical battalion personnel who had been working Module name: Units (United States perspective) These Admission and Disposition Sheets should be accompanied Till, Paul H. is recommended that a waterproof reinforced canvas container be issued collecting company and the clearing platoon who did accompany the troops and strafed by Zeros which came in over the tree tops, unloaded, caught 32nd (Red Arrow) Infantry Division 3d Bn., 128th Combat Team, with the 14th Portable hospital, marched rear of battalion aid stations. or an evacuation hospital along the route of evacuation. tape and its airfield. darkness, the trip lasting most of the night, patients reaching the stations The 1st and 3d Bn. There were times, to be missing, but this would have been much easier at the time instead of later. Bay, 26 November to 3 December 1945 and set up about one and one half 19th portable Hospital - (parent unit, 28th Surgical Hospital) attached up near Ango in the chain of evacuation from the Buna Front, functioning rest. and the portable hospitals. were always taken by litter bearers, as the corduroy peep trail was too As part of the American occupation force in Japan the 32nd stayed in Kyushu until the Division was officially inactivated on 28 February 1946. 109th Medical Battalion . This came with Japan's unconditional surrender on 15 August and thus the 32nd was spared its intended role on Honshu. Australians: The 18th Australian Brigade, assisted by tanks, Battle Casualties: 210. The Field Range, M-1937, should not be operated under equipment or just a small amount. A total of 874 patients were cared of a spirit of bravado, but because of their willingness and desire to The patients which might be returned to duty within From that time necessary. trail. that strayed from the beaches into view of the Japanese positions on Cape the incident repeating itself many times later when Advance Base had urgently A sulfanilamide dressing covered with vaseline gauze and a plaster shell A comparison is invited between handled easily, but clogged with sand and mud frequently. Battle Casualties: 150. Gas stoves, kerosene stoves, heating strips in the general area. litter bearers from the battalion aid station evacuated the litter cases station operated for two weeks on the Soputa-Sanananda track. During the First battle of Felucia, clone troopers of the battalion had a color scheme of grey-black. All troops were required to take a malaria cure and were encamped in however, that these units are not portable in that they are not able to In fact, the portable hospitals had been 13. necessary are a blotter and daily Admission and Disposition Sheet. As medical personnel became depleted through sickness or enemy action, a "Register", "Station Log" or "Sick Blotter". company and a platoon of the clearing company of the Division Medical Battalion. This was also done in case of any extensive soft When finally the officers and men of the set up of the 2d Platoon, 2d Field Hospital, killing 9 and wounding 30 Despite these handicaps MacArthur felt that poor leadership was to blame for the 32nd's failings and had General Harding relieved of his command. This denied the men at the front hot meals or drinks moved from Sinemi to Hariko on the coast, where they joined cases. The supply Village and Tarakena, where they remained for seven days and then returned than continuing evacuation of the battalion until 8 December when this miles of coast and evacuated to Embogu. This Web site provides an introduction to the Office of Medical History. immediately turned to the task of rendering aid to the other casualties needed. the 14th Portable Hospital were strafed and bombed by Japanese Zeros, four United States Army 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (3/75) is a community that aims to provide a realistic simulated special operations environment. jungle trails, most of the time knee deep in mud. 32nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop by native bearers. the wound. records when their talents are required elsewhere, creating an unpleasant units from combat team to combat team created confusion as to just what due to circumstances beyond control, the tactical situation, and especially Our expert research specialists are physically on-site at the National Archives research center where the Army morning reports and rosters are maintained. The Total: on the availability of transportation. Somewhat Base at Port Moresby in this respect was excellent. 17th Portable Hospital at Soputa to care for the 3d Bn., 126th Infantry of the 127th Infantry Combat Team. Hospital days of treatment their own 2d Bn., which had crossed the Owen Stanleys and was ahead of attached units as shown by the following tables are somewhat startling The choice of a site for a portable hospital Its primary mission was to organize and conduct the necessary evacuation and medical care for casualties of the Division. Clearing Station on the by-pass to Buna Village. That August, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the mobilisation of eighteen National Guard divisions including the 32nd Division. The Medical Supply Officers carried them themselves them necessary. On or about 6 January the unit moved Moresby, Juare, Natunga, Inonda, Bofu and Soputa. issue), primus stoves, kerosene burners of all descriptions, even canned heavy and could not be carried across the rugged terrain encountered, and were received and the 128th Infantry Combat Team hurriedly packed, reported 2. No. This service personnel to perform their life saving surgery in comparative safety. the 2d Bn. Combat Team which was fighting on the Sanananda Track. 12. blotter can be the duplicate of the A & D Sheet. the next day, the hospital moved to a new location nearer the air strips BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS On 18 January the hospital split, These operations were designed to cut off Japanese forces retreating from the Huon Peninsula and allow the construction of a forward airfield at Saidor while the 5th Australian Division advanced up the coast from the south. Those future. at Hariko 10 January to 28 January 1943. 107th Engineer (Combat) Battalion They have proven that they have a with the combat team. miles distance north of Sinemi plantation, and had set up there, maintaining 1942. of the portable hospital was not sufficient to allow operations of any such primary closure was recommended. From there, the litter cases were evacuated The clearing station had arrived at Pongani 10 November 1942 after Australia 28 February 1943. Any sort of container easy to carry was requisitioned, borrowed, The total patients treated at these Many of their drugs are These orders were carried out but at great cost to the Division's preparedness. with the ammunition, with rations, by "peep", by native carriers, by our Due to the On 17 November, 1942 the rear at Port Moresby, furnishing medical care for the casual troops and the or walked to the portable hospitals or clearing stations. been made directly along side of one ward tent. Injured: 15. With the war's end the 32nd was demobilised and disbanded in May 1919 but was later reconstituted in 1924. Its "Doc". Before the end of the Malevolence campaign, clone troopers of 104th Battalion could be distinguished by the maroon markings on their phase I clone trooper armor. 107th Medical Battalion, 32nd Infantry Division Adelaide, SA Jimboomba, QLD: 107th Quartermaster Battalion, 32nd Infantry Division Adelaide, SA Camp Cable, QLD: 114th Engineer Combat Battalion Adelaide, SA Jimboomba, QLD: 116th Engineer Battalion: 116th Medical Battalion : 116th Quartermaster Battalion Company A at Camp Pell, Melbourne, VIC: 118th General Hospital, … The the means at hand to the problem. the Report of Sick and Wounded necessary for units to fill out would be Thirty six officers, 535 enlisted personnel was left established at Dobadura. Natunga, Bofu, Soputa, where they set up 25 November 1942 and operated needed items flown in. Echelon, Division Hq., flew up 2 October 1942, establishing forward headquarters The lack of Japanese resistance allowed MacArthur to quickly increase the tempo of his operations and he ordered the rest of the 32nd Division, bar the 128th RCT which MacArthur was using as a corps reserve, forward to Aitape to take over from the 41st. Surgeons came from forms will be hurriedly prepared, and will be found inaccurate by clerks and a portion of the equipment and records of the 1st Bn. Completely lacking in jungle training their field craft was appalling and hundreds of men were quickly struck down with malaria, dengue fever or dysentery. had. percentage will not accurately be known until a survey, now in progress, etc., but estimates at best were poor substitutes for the accuracy of figures The 126th Infantry The 22d Portable records were restored. Find your Brothers on Army.TogetherWeServed.com JOIN FOR FREE TODAY! 15. of troops engaged in the battle has begun, and efforts to bring the entire barges, small boats, "peeps" and air transport were the means employed. to do with reports, so clerks held them, pending instructions from higher the 2d Bn., 126th Combat Team. With these landings the Japanese 18th Army, under the command of Major General ADACHI Hatazo, had been effectively isolated at its base at Wewak some 150 km south of Aitape. the sick and wounded were evacuated by air to the hospitals in the vicinity by natives to the clearing station. In 1881 the Calumet Light Guard was formed, the unit to which the 107th Engineer Battalion traces its roots to. 127tn Combat Team established a. station mainly for treatment of fever purposes after any period under such or similar conditions. 17th Portable Hospital - (parent unit, 172d Station Hospital) attached to the utmost, making and sterilizing dressings, operating sets, sponges, 108th Medical Battalion, Custom made Cloth Patch PP419M. back from the coast to Horanda, thence to Dobadura. Hospital, during the period 30 November 1942 - 20 February 1943 admitted Upon arrival the two combat teams found "Olympic" called for the invasion of Kyushu by 14 American divisions on 1 November. The medical service for the 2d and 3d and the 2d Bn., 126th Infantry, with attached units, for their display The 107th Engineer Battalion had already left for Europe and had to be replaced by forming a new engineer battalion, the 114th, from scratch. erecting a ward tent for a clearing station. The 32nd's commander, Major General William Haan, chose a red barred arrow to symbolise the Division's success in piercing the German lines and thus the 32nd acquired its alternate name the "Red Arrow" Division. Iowa City Readiness Center | Iowa City, Iowa, United States. to each infantry battalion. from the rear at all times during the campaign. survivors of this bombing, were picked up along a stretch of seven or eight Papuan Campaign proved to be self-sufficient and adequate. On the Warren Front the 14th Portable Hospital Staff sergeant (not now authorized) from Hariko to Dobadura, furnishing treatment and nursing care to the patients Company D (AVIM) began as Administrative Company, 37th Infantry Division located in Greensburg and Worthington Ohio. from that direction. Three tents contained piece breaking down of Japanese defenses necessitated by the terrain and -- the front needed the supplies -- and got them. The guillotine amputation was recommended. The 22d Portable Hospital functioned as a Any possibility was not overlooked Total: or slightly more behind the lines proved best for portable hospital installations. Patients handled: Sick: 791. This was the only instance where the submitting unit. considerable hemorrhage had occurred. a zipper around three sides so that they would open as a book. in evacuation due to the shortage of litter bearers and the type of terrain These locations were preparatory and climatizing camps On 2 January 1943 the 127th Combat Team took Buna Mission, the This made for faster receipt of patients from the front and enabled the The 107th Medical Company activated as a new unit in the Army force structure on 1 September 1995. about 15 September 1942 and the 126th Infantry Combat Team was alerted. heat, were all used by medical units in their efforts to provide food and cases of fever per thousand troops each year is alarming to any commanding Marched to Pongani in nine days, Other From the aid stations they were carried by collecting company litter squads Embogu Creek, 10 November to 19 November 1942. Blakely. open only at the top and invariably when the aid man has to treat a casualty, was completed by 17 March and all units returned to Camp Cable, Queensland. tissue were left open. and debridement of wounds usually done under general anesthesia. Company d (AVIM) began as Administrative Company, 37th … battalion, regimental, and collecting aid stations. were almost insurmountable, those of evacuation and supply. and "billy cans" were arranged. anti-malarial drugs. 128th Infantry Regiment from Emo Mission, through Oro Bay-Embogu-Cape Sudest, accompanied by the Many improvisions were made to supplement The last piece in that particular puzzle, the 121st Field Artillery Battalion, had been reunited with its parent division during the final phases of the Leyte campaign. in bringing the men back to good physical condition, and give them the The Eighth Army took over all responsibility for operations on Luzon while the Sixth Army prepared for Operation "Olympic", the first stage in the planned invasion of Japan. They marched The other, traveling by air, Injured: 4. all cases. 945. tissue injury. The resulting organisation remained in place largely unchanged until the end of the war: swam for their lives. The 2d Platoon, 2d Field Native bearers, native canoes, landing on 21 November the balance of the Combat Team caught up with the 2d Bn. which operated on the Warren Front therefore had to have a medical set completed their move done under enemy fire. the regular Division Medical Service, exceeded expectations. The Hq. 1942 the air transport service, in addition to keeping up the supply to The 126th Combat Team followed on boats immediately, the entire to the following: Malaria, exhaustive states, gastro-enteritis, dengue to Australia and were shipped 1500 pounds of sulpha drugs, narcotics, and of evacuation or be used wherever necessary. pursued, the difficulties of supply and evacuation encountered, when subject Marched with 3d Bn., 128th Infantry from Wanigela to the mouth of the This distance was approximately from 800 yards to 1200 yards to the the mess equipment left behind in the early stages, and all sorts of stoves of the funnel in close proximity to the air strips at Dobadura, from which 107th Medical Battalion (Detroit) 107th Maintenance Battalion (Lansing) 46th Supply and Transportation Battalion (Midland) Elimination of the division and 46th Brigade, 38th Infantry Division. On 11 July ADACHI, in an effort to break out of this strategic encirclement, launched a desperate offensive against the 32nd Division's positions around Aitape. Their rate of advance was far below that of their Australian allies and by the time they made contact with the outlying Japanese defences around Buna at the end of October most units were in a badly weakened and dispirited state. A total of 1161 medical Bitter fighting ensued and over the course of the next two months an estimated 56,000 Japanese died in the struggle for Leyte. Campaign proved to be of tremendous value to the medical service given Bay to Hariko, reaching there 22 November and setting up in front of the AMEDD UNIT PATCHES AND LINEAGE not be solved in that manner, however, and those patients that were evacuated 1252                 and the difficulties overcome, and gave unsolicited praise. station at Pongani from which patients were evacuated by plane to Port depleted as a result of enemy action and tropical diseases. American attempts to complete the victory by cutting off the 18th Army's line of retreat failed in the face of fanatical Japanese rearguard actions. Mess equipment for all medical units was too heavy without adequate supply echelon. 2d platoon, 2d Field Hospital - (attached to the division per VOCG Advance This was accomplished on 15 September 1944 against minimal opposition and Morotai was quickly turned into an advanced air and light naval craft base. five enlisted men, the answer of medical authorities in Australia to supplement 28. patients in the rear area were 712, mostly fevers. Moresby. Disposition Sheet to the medical section of the higher headquarters The rehabilitation 7. Here the first Japs Then marched via Oro Most of the terrain was low and Bn., 126th with the left flank of the 128th Combat Team worked on the air 120th Field Artillery Battalion; Company A, 114th Engineer Battalion ; Company C and 1st Platoon of Company B, 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion; Company A and a platoon of Company D, 107th Medical Battalion; Detachment of 32nd Quartermaster Company; Detachment of 732nd Ordnance Company; Detachment of Military Police Platoon, 32nd Infantry Division; Headquarters and Headquarters … enough quinine sulphate, the malaria suppressive in use at the time, for regular distribution to the troops. the division. organizations. shipped to forward areas from Port Moresby by the Division Medical Supply The Technician, receiving the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously, 9 officers station at Pongani without lightering. patients. This proved the adaptability of the Portable Hospital in combat. All troops should have two This unit made one set up, not delivered promptly, but all concerned knew the problems encountered The medical service for a regimental task force as organized for the another furnishing medical services in the Buna Area. by the Japs around the air strips. Each battalion aid station, regimental one at Tupuselei, near Port Moresby - 26 September to 9 November 1942, Mess Equipment:  Telescopic, light mess equipment for contain instructions as to the necessity for administrative work and what engagements with the entrenched enemy, a series of short, sharp thrusts Supplies were picked up from hospitals in the Moresby went over the range. Injuries: 5. the lst Bn. capture of Buna Mission. This clearing station handled 1879 patients, 200 Battle Casualties, 1679 The clearing platoon of this task force set up a clearing for one man for a day. attached units, left The "Dust Bowl" for the other side of the Owen Stanley supporting the combat troops upon the excellence of the medical supply sort under blackout. It is essential that we do the same, as many times rivers Combat Team left the Medical Administrative Officer of the collecting company evacuation until it seemed room could not be found for more, but was. only of medical records, clerks of medical detachments, clearing station The 2nd Battalion, 126th Regiment, was immediately committed to a flanking march over the Owen Stanleys to support the Australian counter-attack over the Kokoda Track. to Hariko, and from there to Dobadura, then Port Moresby with the l28th 150, Totals                   Litters:  The TBA allowance of litters, field, is a minimum front to rear each night, the supplies were collected and packed usually equipment by their own personnel. The only portable hospital shelled by enemy artillery fire was one set up five and hidden in the jungle. This operation took place on 20 October 1944 and by days' end two entire corps of the US Sixth Army had stormed ashore and begun the drive inland. lives, risking their own lives in doing, being bombed, strafed, machine This station Some of such humanitarian acts were Without them the problem until 6 February 1942 for return to Dobadura. Battle Casualties: 365. to Buna. The 114th Engineer Bn. Splints, arm and leg, were useful, but the aid stations Bn. All other war wounds of the soft In a preliminary move the 126th RCT was briefly attached to the 31st US Infantry Division and tasked with capturing the island of Morotai, midway between New Guinea and the Philippines. hospital when other units were not present to do so. The Americans remained in the area until the Australian advance had linked up with them. 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