FMFRP 12-12

History of the Medical Department
of the U.S. Navy
in
World War II

United States Government Printing Office
1953

 

This volume is "under development" and will be completed as time allows...


Contents

Chapter   Page
  Foreword v
  Preface viii
  Illustrations xii
  Tables xvii
I. Facilities of the Medical Department of the Navy 1
    Continental and Extracontinental Hospitals 1
  Development of Mobile and Base Hospitals 17
  Special Augmented Hospitals 37
  Medical Facilities: European, Atlantic and African Theaters 37
  Submarine Medicine 42
  The Dental Situation 56
II. Experiences in Battle of the Medical Department of the Navy 63
  Pearl Harbor 63
  The Solomons Campaign 66
      Guadalcanal 67
  New Georgia 74
  Bougainville 78
  New Hebrides 82
  Saipan 83
  Iwo Jima 89
  Okinawa 104
  Medical Action Afloat 114
  Prisoners of War and Enemy Civilians 118
  Normandy 121
  Sicily 125
  Salerno 127
  Dental Officers' Experiences in Battle 128
III. Mobile and Base Hospitals 133
  Lions and Cubs 138
  U.S. Naval Base Hospital No. 12 145
IV. Medical Procurement and Supply 149
  Advanced Base Program 153
  Extracontinental Medical Supply Storehouses (MSS'S) 155
  Medical Supply From Floating Outlets 156
  Advanced Base Supply 157
  Marine Combat Supply 158
  Whole Blood for Transfusion 159
  Matériel Shortages and Defects 159
V. Development of Medical Services for Marine Corps Forces in the Field 161
VI. Medical Service With Amphibious Forces in the Saipan Operation 171
VII. Medical Service in the Seventh Amphibious Force 183
VIII. Medical Aspects of Naval Operations in the Mediterranean 189
  Organization of the Naval Medical Department 189
  The Naval Medical Corps in Amphibious Operations 191
  Medical and Epidemiological Considerations 193
IX. Air Evacuation and Transportation of Sick and Wounded 203
X. Aviation Medicine 209
  A. Developments in Aviation Medicine 209
  B. High Altitude Training 212
  C. Night Vision Training 218
  D. Aviation Psychology 221
  E. Naval Aviation Medical Research 228
XI. Burns 243
XII. Program for the Deaf 245
XIII. Blindness 249
XIV. Neurosurgery 253
XV. Peripheral Neurosurgery 261
XVI. Thoracic Injuries 267
XVII. Orthopedic Casualties Aboard a Hospital Ship 283
XVIII. Cardiology 287
XIX. Dermatology 299
XX. Medical Research 315
XXI. Clinical Psychology in the Screening Program 321
XXII. Medical Aspects of Blast 329
XXIII. Roentgenology 347
XXIV. Rehabilitation 357
XXV. Malnutrition in Repatriated Prisoners of War 367


Illustrations

    Page
  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, 1933 to 1945. Front
  Ross T. McIntire, Vice Admiral (MC) USN (Retired), Surgeon General, United States Navy, 1938 to 1946 Front
1. U.S. Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md. 2
2. U.S. Naval Hospital, Bremerton, Wash. 2
3. U.S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. 3
4. U.S. Naval Hospital, Charleston, S.C. 3
5. U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass. 4
6. U.S. Naval Hospital, Corona, Calif. 4
7. U.S. Naval Hospital, Corpus Christi, Tex. 5
8. U.S. Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill. 5
9. U.S. Naval Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla. 6
10. U.S. Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Calif. 6
11. U.S. Naval Hospital, Newport, R.I. 7
12. U.S. Naval Hospital, Parris Island, S.C. 7
13. U.S. Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Fla. 8
14. U.S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. 9
15. U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. 9
16. U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N.H. 10
17. U.S. Naval Hospital, Quantico, Va. 10
18. U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif. 11
19. U.S. Naval Hospital, Washington, D.C. 11
20. U.S.S. Relief 12
21. U.S.S. Solace 12
22. Average patient census, all naval hospitals 13
23. U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md. 14
24. U.S. Naval Hospital, San Francisco (Treasure Island), Calif. 14
25. U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif. 15
26. U.S. Naval Hospital, Seattle, Wash. 15
27. U.S. Naval Hospital, Key West, Fla. 16
28. U.S. Naval Hospital, Long Beach, Calif. 16
29. U.S. Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va. 17
30. U.S. Naval Hospital, Norman, Okla. 17
31. Mobile Hospital No. 1 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 18
32. Mobile Hospital No. 1 at Bermuda 19
33. U.S. Naval Hospitals in the Pacific in 1942 20
34. Mobile Hospital No. 8 at Guadalcanal 21
35. U.S. Naval Convalescent Hospital, Harriman, N.Y. 22
36. U.S. Naval Hospital, Farragut, Idaho 23


Tables

Table Page
1. Increase in Medical Department personnel on active duty, 1939-45 1
2. Hospitals and hospital ships in commission in 1941 1
3. Hospitals commissioned in 1942 13
4. Mobile and base hospitals commissioned in 1942 21
5. Hospitals commissioned in 1943 22
6. Hospitals and hospital ships commissioned in 1944 30
7. Hospitals and hospital ships commissioned in 1945 30
8. Medical supply facilities, all types 35
9. Dispensaries in the United Kingdom 38
10. Hospitals and dispensaries in the Atlantic Theater 38
11. Medical Department facilities in the African Theater, 1 January 1945 42
12. Diseases of the urogenital system in submarine personnel on war patrol 48
13. Incidence per thousand of disease or injury of submarine personnel (1944) 48
14. Diseases limiting duration of submarine patrols 48
15. Habitability reports of fleet-type submarines 49
16. Psychiatric casualties encountered aboard submarines 53
17. Deaths occurring aboard submarines on war patrols 53
18. Number of men trained and qualified in "lung" escape 56
19. Dental facilities asof August 1945 57
20. Number of First Marine Division patients hospitalized for malaria as compared with other diseases‹--Guadalcanal 73
21. Casualties and evacuation--Iwo Jima 104
22. Disease conditions requiring evacuation from Okinawa 109
23. Maxillofacial battle casualties treated in the Solace 129
24. Statistical report--Second Marine Division hospital 180
25. Typhus cases anddeaths in Naples 197
26. Types of plague cases seen in Dakar, and percent mortality 199
27. Methods of treatment of plague cases 200
28. Results of treatment of plague cases 200
29. Incidence of decompression illness in low-pressure chamber training flights 217
30. Blindness, Navy and Marine Corps, World War II 250
31. Mortality rate from thoracic wounds in wars prior to World War II 267
32. Cardiovascular diseases observed during early Guadalcanal period 295
33. Invalided from the service for tuberculosis (all forms), U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1930-45 354
34. Original admission rates per 1,000 average strength for tuberculosis (all forms), according to occupation, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1930-45 354
35. Tuberculosis (all forms), admission rates, noneffective ratios, and death rates, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1930-45 355
36. Physical condition of repatriated prisoners of war 371


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