WW II Ambulance
Dad was a member of the 426th Medical
Battalion. This Battalion had 3
Ambulance Companies, the 564th, 565th, and 566th. Dad was in the 565th
Ambulance Company.
An excerpt from: http://www.jrtc-polk.army.mil/Warriorbde/115th/115fh.htm
On 5 February 1943, the present 565th Medical Company (Ground Ambulance) was
constituted as Company B, 426th Ambulance Motor Battalion. It was activated
on 25 February 1943 at Camp Maxey, Texas. It was reorganized as redesignated
on 25 September 1943 as the 565th Ambulance Company, Motor. The unit was
again reorganized and redesignated on 25 April 1945 and became the 565th
Motor Ambulance Company. After the end of World War II in Europe, the unit
was inactivated on 15 November 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts.
During WWII the unit earned Campaign Participation Credit in Normandy,
Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. On 23 May
1955, the 565th Medical Company was redesignated and allotted to the Regular
Army. It was reactivated on 1 July 1955 at Baumholder, Germany. In 1990, the
unit again responded when duty called and deployed to Southwest Asia in
support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. They have also
deployed to Kuwait and Haiti to provide medical support. Most recently the
unit has been to Bosnia. The unit now calls Ft. Polk, Louisiana home. "Bring
Them Back Alive"