CONUS airfield units - specifically AAC hospital units

Hello Wendover Tom,
There are many resources where bits of information can be gleaned but, if you want the history of the medical detachment of a WWII, European Theatre base then I can whole heartedly recommend a book called Flight Surgeon by Lt. Col. Ernest Gaillard, Jr., MD USAAF-MC (Ret.). It is the complete and unabridged combat medical diary or the USAAF, 381st Bombardment Group, 242nd Medical Dispensary, Station 167 Ridgewell, Essex, England from 1943 to October 1944 when Col. Gaillard relinquished command.
There is an absolute mountain of interesting information in here and the book is readily available from Amazon. (No, I am not on commission).
ISBN 1-4107-4671-2
Regards,
Jim

Mark,
Don't know the absolute facts regarding the terminology dispensary v. hospital. I suspect things were different in active theatres of operations as, although the hospital at Ridgewell was officially designated a dispensary, it was for a base of 3000 men and had an operating theatre, mortuary, three wards and other facilities.

Jtennet,
That would be true, if he was asking about hospitals in overseas theaters, but the title of this thread is "CONUS airfield units - specifically AAC hospital units".
CONUS means Continental United States, not the ETO, MTO, etc.
The ETO (Elite Theater of Operations) had it own set of Tables of Organization, separate from the CONUS and the rest of the AAF.  Any study of units in the ETO would involve inflated numbers of units and personnel. Some of those units only existed in the ETO and nowhere else. The Station Dispensary is one of those units.

Wendovertom
FYI:  The two continental US base histories I have both include station hospital histories, as well.  Although I haven't read them carefully, they appear to include info on staffing, buildings and construction, rehab, etc.  One history even documents a 5 day bivouac by 30 EM and 7 O of the medical detachment.
cbidaughter

DaveT,
The link you gave does not go to the book Medical Services with AAF, but to the history of AAF in WWII, Vol. VI.
It should be:
 
http://www.au.af.mil/au/a...ical_services_wwii.pdf

Military Hospitals Directory & Histories via this Link:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87385922/Military-Hospitals-History

I can't believe I missed this in March.
 
I never heard of SCRIB before , but I may download TeamCAP's link when I get home.  However, it raises an issue that also exists with "Depots" and "Schools."
 
There were Hospitals that were organizations.
There were Hospitals that were were stations. (not many, most all of the ones I know about were 1945 era Convalescent Hospitals -- some of which were old resort hotels).
 
And as the link shows, there were Hospitals that were buildings.
 
As organizations, mbee has covered the fact that in most places the medical organizations were part of the Medical Corps, not the Air Corps.  There were a few "Station Hospitals", but most were detachments.
 
I presume your question is about organizations.  Right?

There's no separate medical organization among the units I know of at Wendover before 1955, so I would guess that prior to spring 1944 the hospital would have been run by the Medical Detachment that formed part of the base complement at Wendover, and afterwards as part of the 216th AAF Base Unit.

wendovertom

So, I am interested in the story that might be uncovered by the records and so forth of base hospitals. 

What's the story?