Your email address will not be published. 65th FLD HOSP ETO 44 Belgium Luxembourg Germany Austria The Station RAF Benson in South Oxfordshire is a support helicopter main operating base working within the Joint Helicopter Command. [6] 1939 also saw the establishment of No. By the end of 1947, 20,0000 cars had been made. These centers were at first staffed by personnel from the 16th Station Hospital, reinforced by 5 Officers and 7 EM who had trained in British Convalescent camps. 37 ETO Rhineland Ardennes-Alsace [52], Since 2012, Benson's gate guardian has been a full-scale replica of a wartime Supermarine Spitfire PR.Mk XI. We can either copy our records onto paper or deliver them to you digitally, Visit us in Kew to see original documents or view online records for free, Consider paying for 09:00 to 17:00. 63d GEN HOSP USAFBI Jan 43 ETO 44 (supplied enlisted personnel to affiliated units that embarked for overseas between Jan-Jul 42, embarked for overseas 15 Jan 43) 4 2 Feb 44 England 23 Apr 44 Scotland ETO Rhineland Required fields are marked *. Dealing with so many people took time. 110th STA HOSP ETO 15 Jan 44 England 19 Mar 45 France 2 Aug 45 Austria M-401 MED DEP ETO France (closed down 31 Aug 44 in Cherbourg) 59th FLD HOSP ETO 2 Aug 44 France May 45 Germany The station warrant officer (SWO, often pronounced as a word) is the senior warrant officer on a British Royal Air Force station. For the airline that operated under that code, see, Benson village (left) and RAF Benson (centre and right) from the air, Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility. 12 21 May 44 England ETO Normandy Northern France Rhineland 8th MED DEP CO USAFBI May 43 Scotland 83 ETO Rhineland Ardennes-Alsace, 3d STA HOSP USAFBI 30 Jun 42 44 France 28 Apr 45 Belgium(activated 18 Mar 42) While the British got on with administering their zone, relations with the Soviet Union within the Allied Control Council gradually declined. 4, became the 828th CONV CEN 1 Dec 44) The last German DP camps closed in the early 1950s. Activation was officially confirmed on 2 October 1944, by GO No. 240th GEN HOSP ETO 9 Nov 44 England 31 Dec 44 France It had already been agreed that Germany and Austria would be divided into four occupation zones:Soviet, American, French and British. HOSP TRAIN No. 103 Squadron started flying in on 3 April 1939, to be joined over the next few months by No. 809th HOSP CEN Saint Erme, France (established Apr 45) The BAOR and Control Commission Germany also had to restart German economic life. These are predominantly records of service prior to 1939. HOSP TRAIN No. Thousands of men and women suspected of involvement in the concentration camp system and other crimes across Europe were rounded up by Allied forces. 28 Squadron. 42d EVAC HOSP 1 Jun 41 (disbanded 15 Oct 42, partly split in 2 separate units; the newly designated 27th EVAC HOSP, embarked for North Africa 3 Apr 44, and the designated 77th EVAC HOSP, which embarked for England 5 Aug 42) 95th MED GAS TREAT BN ETO 29 Aug 44 France, 31st MED GP ETO 10 Jun 44 France 44 Belgium 45 Germany SS guards forced to bury their victims at Belsen, 24 April 1945, Heinrich Himmler's body after his suicide atLneburg, May 1945. Political support for war crimes prosecutions soon declined. Kilmer, ZI, 28 Jan 46) The initial objective was to establish Army Forces in the British Isles in order to protect them from a possible enemy invasion; another objective was to relieve a number of British troops for operations in the Mediterranean, and to reinforce the Royal Air Force with aircraft and personnel. Warrant Officer Mac Macdonald, from Thetford, lowered the Royal Air Force Ensign on station for the last time as he left the RAF following 39 years of exemplary service.. 55th GEN HOSP ETO 3 Jul 44 England 1 Jul 45 France 8279th GEN HOSP ETO 27 Apr 45 France (Provisional German PW Hospital). 815th HOSP CEN Paris, France (established Feb 45) RAF Benson - The Chief of the Air Staff's Warrant Officer - Facebook HOSP TRAIN No. The British, in their zone of occupation, formed some of these people into the Civil Mixed Watchman Service. 61st FLD HOSP ETO England Germany [52], The station's motto (Spectemur agendo) is in Latin and translates as "Let us be known by our actions". In March 1945, Field MarshalMontgomerysent a letter outlining the policyto allsoldiers in21st Army Group. 80th STA HOSP MTO 44 Tunisia ETO 14 Sep 44 France Hohenfels is the site of major training exercises, including force on force combined arms training. As a result, the Royal Engineers built the present road (part of the A4074) between Benson and Crowmarsh. Initially, RMs were accepted in Army canteens and stores and could be used to buy more goods, or converted into sterling and sent home as money orders. Overall Mission: USAG Stuttgart contains the Patch Army Barracks. 220th GEN HOSP ETO 6 Feb 45 England (no debarkation, moved on to France, where landed 8 Feb 45) 23 Mar 45 France (activated 28 Sep 44) (closed for operations 19 Nov 45, returned to ZI 21 Nov 45) 48th FLD HOSP ETO 16 Apr 44 England 16 Jul 44 France (inactive) 3 Oct 44 Belgium 31 Oct 44 Holland 16 Nov 44 Belgium 25 Nov 44 Germany 3 Dec 44 Belgium 31 Dec 44 Germany 11 Nov 45 France (activated 10 Sep 43) (departed for ZI 25 Nov 45) Your email address will not be published. The base is one of the only bases in Europe that has existed as a US Army base since before WWII. 103d EVAC HOSP ETO 20 Jul 44 France 6 Mar 45 Germany 174th GEN HOSP ETO Aug 44 France The OCU later moved to RAF Thorney Island. In March 1942 the reorganization of the War Department, and the creation of three main Commands Army Air Forces, Army Ground Forces, and Services of Supply (called ASF after March 1943), were to cause several conflicts within the United States Armed Forces. 1 PRU was formed into No. 26th FLD HOSP ETO 18 Feb 45 France HOSP TRAIN No. Those found guilty included Commandant Josef Kramer who was sentenced to death by a military court and hanged on 13 December 1945. 10th FLD HOSP ETO 1 Nov 44 France(inactivated 4 Nov 45 at Cp. The Institut Saint-Joseph, at Mont-de-la-Salle, run by the Catholic community of the Frres des Ecoles Chrtiennes was taken over by the US Army and converted into a General Hospital. 115th STA HOSP USAFBI27 Jul 43 17 May 44England May 45 France 26 Nov 45 Germany Apprehending these lesser-known Nazis became the responsibility of the Allies depending on which zone of Germany or Austria they controlled. 120th EVAC HOSP ETO 21 Dec 44 England 6 Mar 45 France 30 Mar 45 Germany (took over SS-barracks and arranged for medical treatment of former inmates, political prisoners, and slave-laborers at KZ-Buchenwald, as from 5 Apr 45 onwards, assigned to provide medical care of DPs in certain areas of Germany, as from 29 Apr 45, relieved by 7th FLD HOSP 2 Jun 45) 44 13 Nov 43 Northern Ireland 17 May 44 England ETO Northern France Rhineland 29th FLD HOSP Alaska (Kiska) 15-22 Aug 43 ZI 12 Feb 44 ETO 16 Jun 44 England 28 Aug 44 France 18 Nov 44 Belgium 26 Apr 45 Germany (when serving on Kiska, it operated together with the 28th FLD HOSP) (in Germany, the 29th FLD HOSP set up Hospitals at PW Transient Enclosures) Kilmer, New Jersey, 2 Jan 46) If the airmans service number falls within this range there may be further records of his military service in Royal Naval Air Service records or Royal Navy records. Myles Standish, ZI) 802d HOSP CEN Blandford (previously II Hospital Group, Provisional) 38 Group was subsumed into RAF Strike Command and relocated to RAF Upavon, whereas the TCW moved to nearby RAF Brize Norton. 123d EVAC HOSP ETO Jan 45 France Mar 45 Germany Jul 45 France Sep 45 Germany Some planners arguedthat Germany should be reconstructed purely as anagrarian state, one that lacked the heavy industry needed to wage afuture war. Under the original Bolero plans it was contemplated that the groups of Hospitals at Cirencester, Malvern, and Whitchurch would operate under so-called Hospital Centers (at the time only two were provided, the 12th + 15th ed). [46] Flying operations are supported by units such as No. 247th GEN HOSP 15 Oct 44 (consolidated with 237th STA HOSP, to form the 71st GEN HOSP 7 Feb 47) HOSP TRAIN No. Indeed, many of those who did return were jailed or executed in countries like Poland and Yugoslavia. 26 6 Jul 44 England ETO Rhineland Ardennes-Alsace Central Europe (inactivated 10 Sep 45) 106th GEN HOSP ETO Nov 44 England 812th HOSP CEN Cherbourg, France (established Nov 44) They were replaced by the RAF Support Command Signals Headquarters (SCSHQ) and the Radio Introduction Unit, which arrived from RAF Medmenham during 1977. 635th MED CLR CO ETO 27 Dec 44 Belgium (component of the 169th MED BN) 811th HOSP CEN (established Jan 45, never operational) 19th GEN HOSP USAFBI 5 Sep 43 ETO 20 Aug 44 France (activated 24 Jul 42) These units brought the first Army Nurses to the Beachhead. 65th MED GP ETO 44 Luxembourg 44 Belgium Mar 45 Germany 114th GEN HOSP ETO England 33 Squadron arrived from RAF Odiham. 15, Hq, UK Base. In the absence of a service record, or perhaps to supplement one, Operations Record Books (ORBs) can prove very revealing. Sketch showing conventional arrangement of an Evacuation Hospital (such basicunit would comprise up to 27 tents). The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regt) is part of the Royal Air Force and functions as a specialist airfield defence corps founded by Royal Warrant in 1942. 45 26 Jun 43 England ETO Northern France Rhineland Central Europe It receives crews from No. 297th GEN HOSP USAFBI Jun 43 ETO 30 May 44 England (activated 10 Jun 43) 32d EVAC HOSP USANIF 24 Feb 44 12 Mar 44 England 29 Apr 44 Wales 12 Jun 44 France 5 Feb 45 Germany Our Trustees | About Us | RAF Benevolent Fund Warrant Officer Alan Hart, Station Warrant Officer, and Warrant Officer Eamon Geraghty, 33 Squadron Warrant Officer, both bid goodbye to life in a blue suit after lengthy careers. These projects effectively triggered activation of US Convalescent Hospitals in the ETO, later transformed into Convalescent Centers. 177th GEN HOSP ETO Oct 44 France 7th STA HOSP USANIF 26 Sep 42 8 Oct 42 England (activated 10 Feb 41 ZI, to MTO 22 Nov 42, inactivated 15 Sep 45) 224th GEN HOSP ETO 7 Feb 45 France Years of bombing and the recent fighting had left agriculture, industryand transport in ruins. 235th GEN HOSP ETO Dec 44 France 724th MED SN CO ETO Jun 44 England Jun 44 France (component of 33d MED BN), This page was printed from the WW2 US Medical Research Centre on 1st May 2023 at 06:45. 8055th GEN HOSP ETO 28 Apr 45 France (Provisional German PW Hospital) Most notably, those elements are tasked with providing aircraft and aircrews for the core mission. 96th GEN HOSP ETO 9 Jan 44 England (possessed psychiatric facilities for prolonged treatment and rehabilitation of patients) 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (No. Records of RAF officers who served after 1922 are still with the RAF. Search the AFN Europe site: Search Search 666th MED CLR CO ETO 44 France, 384th MED COLL CO ETO 19 Sep 44 Belgium [17], With the departure of the Argosys, the only flying unit which remained at Benson was the Queen's Flight. 817th HOSP CEN (established Jan 45, never operational) STATION HOSPITAL 250 beds > 201 Off & EM (other sources 216 Off & EM) By the end of 1963 both units had departed for the Middle East and Far East respectively. The last Werewolf activities petered out in early 1947, with its operatives having failed to mobilise a war-weary population to support their doomed struggle. Official Site: https://home.army.mil/wiesbaden/index.php. RAF officer ranks include: Flying Officer Flight Lieutenant Squadron Leader Wing Commander Group Captain Records of officers are usually held in separate sets of files to those of ordinary. HOSP TRAIN No. If you do not know his number, browse through the name indexes in AIR 78 to find it. Up until 1938 the lists also provide details of where in the world an officer was posted. 110th EVAC HOSP ETO 25 Aug 44 France 31 Sep 44 Luxembourg 17 Dec 44 Belgium Mar 45 Germany 73 ETO Rhineland [17], In July of that year, the closure of nearby RAF Abingdon, resulted in several new units moving to Benson, namely the University of London Air Squadron and Oxford University Air Squadron both flying the Scottish Aviation Bulldog T.1 and No. The very first were set up in March 1944 in the Western, Eastern, and Southern Base Sections. Medical and sanitary conditions, hospital distribution, medical organization, evacuation of wounded, preventive medicine, number of beds, medical emergencies, all this information was of utmost importance to the USWD in preparation of medical planning. Second World War This meant they had a different currency from the locals, and the only one accepted in NAAFI canteens and various messes. Despite its limitations, it was a useful propaganda device that helped convince the most ardent Nazi supporters to carry on fighting in the final weeks of the war. 227th GEN HOSP ETO Dec 44 France 2d CONV HOSP ETO 1 Nov 44 France