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United States. Army. Medical Corps

 Organization

Administrative History

The Army Medical Corps (est. 1908) is a staff corps of medical professionals.

Citation:
NUCMC data from New Jersey Hist. Soc. for Academy of Medicine of New Jersey. Records, 1775-1969 (name not given; Medical Officers' Reserve Corps)

LC man. auth. cd. (Hdg.: United States. Army. Medical Corps; created by the National Defense Act of 1916 as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920)

U.S. War Dept. Annual Rept., 1919, v. 1, pt. 3 (Order No. 73, Aug. 7, 1918: Medical Corps; Medical Corps, National Army; Medical Corps, National Guard; and Medical Reserve Corps consolidated in Medical Reserve Corps, U.S. Army; Jan. 1, 1919 Medical Officers' Reserve Corps reestablished and reorg.)

Rept. of the Surgeon General of the Army, 1907-08 (act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Dept. of the U.S. Army, approved April 23, 1908, provides that the Medical Dept. should consist of a Medical Corps, Medical Reserve Corps, Hospital Corps, the nurse corps, and dental surgeons; immediately following act, officers in Medical Dept. were recommissioned in corresponding grade in Medical Corps)

A few general directions with regard to destroying mosquitoes, 1904: t.p. (Medical Corps, U.S. Army)

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Medical Corps, 1939-2010

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents note Contains accounts, articles, photographs, letters, memoirs, histories, interviews, survey and questionnaire responses, eulogies, speeches, military records and orders, and maps from Mormon veterans who served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II. The materials relate specifically to those veterans who served in the European Theater (including Africa) during the World War II. The materials detail the various experiences of each of the veterans during the Second World War,...
Dates: 1939-2010
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Europe) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army

Frederick Whitaker Taylor collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8694
Content Description

Uniforms and book collected by Taylor used during World War I and World War II from 1918 to 1945.

Dates: approximately 1918-1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Frederick Whitaker Taylor collection

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